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small brass hook, apparently part of a larger article, calcu- 
lated to confine some part of the dress. A few yards from 
the coffin was picked up a small silver coin, which was 
supposed to be British or Gaulish. The coin was about 
the size of the Roman denarius, disked; on the obverse a 
rude head, on the reverse a poise. 
In 1815, a stone coffin and lid of another were found at 
Walcot, near Messrs. Sainsbury’s brewery; and with them 
an urn, of lemon-colored tint; two fragments of Samian 
pottery; also coins of Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, Domitian, 
Carausius, and Constantine. Either the Claudius or 
Vespasian was found inside the coffin, but which coin is now 
uncertain. 
It will be remembered that Dr. Musgrave, in his Belgium 
Britannicum, devotes a portion of his work to these curious 
remains, and makes mention where they had been found 
in his time; and endeavours to trace their origin, giving 
also a drawing of one. He does not, however, attempt to 
determine their date, They appear to have been used very 
early, as Plutarch relates that Numa was buried in a stone 
coffin, and his laws in another. He says, “They did not 
burn the body, because he forbade it; but they made two 
stone coffins, and buried him under the janiculum ; the one 
containing his body, and the other the sacred books which 
he had written.”—Plutarch, Vita Nume. 'Thus we find 
them very early in use. 
We find them also in use after the time of Marcus 
Aurelius Antonius, and resting upon the remains of Roman 
buildings, and also covered with the remains of a Roman 
edifice, as at Coombe Down; yet quite distinet fro.n 
Christian usage, in their position and accompaniments. 
We may, therefore, probably regard them of very different 
dates; but I am inclined to think these found at Coombe 
