( 2 5 9 ) 
The Urns are found at uncertain Depths 5 fome very 
near the Surface, fome two, fome three Spits deep, which 
is the deepeft any Body has taken the Pains to dig hi- 
therto. 
As for the Contents (by what I can hear) they are 
generally the fame. I have open’d feveral of them, and 
found in all of them plenty of pieces of broken Bones, 
fome Black with burning, and fome turn’d to Afties# 
with fome pieces of courfe Glafs run and (ticking to the 
Bones 3 which whether it proceeded from any thing of 
that kind burnt with the Body, or only the fandy Earth 
vitrified with the ftrength of the Fire (as I am inclined 
to think) is doubtful. Befides, I found fome pieces of 
Brafs, fome run, fome much burnt, and fome not in- 
jur’d, with fome pieces of Iron, but fo decay’d with 
ruft, that their Figure or Ufe is hard to judge of. I 
have fome Knives and other odd things, but much eaten 
and decay’d with Ruft : But the Brafs, which is not 
burnt to pieces, remains generally firm and entire. One 
thing is remarkable 5 we find a great many pair of final! 
Nippers (fuch as we pull out Hairs wiih) commonly of 
Brafs $ and moft of them fo perfedf and good, that the 
Edges are full fquare, and the Spring as ftrong as any 
we can make of the Mettal. Thefe are chiefly the par- 
ticulars of what we find: But as for Coins (which of 
all things were moft to be wifhed for) we meet with 
none. I hear of two in the Hands of a Perfon of Elm- 
ham , but had not an opportunity of examining them : 
But when they were found or taken up I can’t tell. I 
have one found t’other Day in an Urn, but very im- 
perfeft ; what remains of the Irrpreflion looks more like 
BritijJj than Roman ^ but by the (hape of the Coin and 
Mettal it fhould be the latter, tho’ I think not eafie to 
determine. 
I have here given you an account of our Difcovery, 
which 1 am fenfible would afford ground for feveral 
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