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coins were found in the coffin, but Roman coins have been 

 found from time to time in the quarry.* 



With regard to the presumed wreath of box-leaves, I have 

 been unable to find any record of such an occurrence in 

 Britain in this period. Having seen a large number of 

 leaden coffins exhibited in the Hospitium, York Museum, I 

 wrote to Mr. Oxley Grabham, the curator, who replied, 

 " No wreaths or leaves were found in the coffins, but many 

 trinkets, such as beads, fibulae, rings, pins, buttons, &c." 

 Other enquiries elsewhere have brought no records to light 

 bearing upon this subject. 



* There are a few additional notes on this interment by Mr. B. E. 

 Freame, of Gillingham, in the Dorset Album (in the Library, Dorset 

 County Museum), Vol I., pt. ii., p. 45c. 



