By O. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P. 



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No further discoveries were made in this cemetery. But the 

 above account shews that within the small area of about fifty feet 

 by twenty, we have here examples of three (if not four) different 

 modes of interment, viz : — 



1. Two bodies buried at full length within stone sarcophagi fitted 

 with heavy covers, the skeletons lying JN\ and S. 



2. Two buried at full length and lying E. and W. in graves 

 dug five feet deep in the rock, one of them inclosed in a wooden 

 coffin, the other in a sort of cist of separate upright stone slabs. 



3. The ashes of one body inclosed in a cinerary Urn within a 

 cavity excavated in a massive stone. 



Each of these several interments were separately inclosed in 

 a walled chamber. The foundation walls of these different cham- 

 bers are not parallel to each other ; some of them resting at an 

 angle upon those of the neighbouring inclosure ; a circum- 

 stance which seems to indicate a certain lapse of time between 

 the building of the several tombs. That all are of Roman age, 

 and connected with the inhabitants of the neighbouring building 

 there can be no reason to doubt. 



Throughout the course of the excavations which uncovered these 

 buildings, and especially in parts where the black colour of the 

 earth indicated spots that had been used for rubbish-pits, there 

 were found a great number of fragments of pottery of various kinds. 

 The black, blue, and brown wares predominated. A certain number 

 were met with of the Durobrivian kind, having raised white scrolls 

 or flowers upon a bluish or brown ground. There were also very 

 many of the fine red or Samian kind. A few of these were of 

 superior quality, and had been embossed with elegant patterns. 

 One large fragment of a flat dish or saucer of Samian ware still 

 shews the rivet-holes by aid of which it had been once mended. 

 Many fragments of glass vessels also, and some of flat glass perhaps 

 used in the windows. From twenty four to thirty coins were met 

 with in different parts of the excavated area ; among them was one 

 finely preserved first bronze medal of Trajan, two of Callectus, one 

 of Maxentius, some of Tacitus and Gratianus, very many of Constan- 

 tine, Constantinus, &c. Two small but elegant bronze fibulas, the pin 

 of one still retaining its elasticity, several bronze rings, two spoons, 



