136 APPENDIX.—SEPULCHRAL REMAINS. 
three skulls, but no other parts of the bodies. Outside 
the coffin, however, on the east side, were found bones, 
which appeared to belong to these skeletons, but without 
skulls. The cover of this coffin was composed of 4 pieces 
of stone; the portion which covered the head and breast 
was plain, and in shape adapted to the coffin; the length 
2 feet 10 inches, and breadth 22 inches. The middle and 
lower portions of the coffin was covered with a stone regu- 
larly cut, and with a margin round it, and an inscription 
within the margin, which, on being examined, proved to 
be in latin, and commemorated the restoration of a 
building; this stone had been afterwards adapted to the 
purpose of the coffin-lid. The inscription is given below, 
with a drawing of the stone and letters on it, and the 
rendering of them, which I believe to be accurate. The 
inscription has nothing whatever to do with the interment. 
Two small stones made out the length of the coffin. 
At the distance of 2 feet 5 inches from this coffin, lay 
another (marked J), the length of which was 7 feet out- 
side, and 6 feet 4 inches inside ; it was covered with a 
stone formed of one piece originally, but now broken in 
the middle; the thickness of this id is 8 inches; the length 
6 feet 2 inches, and breadth 2 feet 2 inches. Within this 
cofin was a skeleton of large size, the thigh bone 
measuring 1 foot 6 inches in length and 4 inches in girt. 
The length ofthe jaw 6 inches, the teeth in excellent 
preservation, being very large and one of them decayed, 
and the skull & of an inch thick. Both these skeletons 
had the face turned upward, or rather reclining on one side. 
The cofin No. 2 tapered as usual towards the feet; the 
skeleton was entire. In these coffins were found, as in the 
preceding ones, small iron studs, united together by thin 
plates, and long thin nails. 
