< 5 o PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1918 
The first trench, the bottom of which was 4 feet 10 inches 
from the snrface of the soil, was 4 feet across at the top and 
3 feet at the bottom, and 3 feet in depth. The second trench 
was shallower, being only 2 feet 6 inches in depth, and 3 feet 
across at the top. The third trench was of varying width of 
about 3 feet, and not formed so definitely as the others, but 
corresponded roughly to the second. 
The first of the interments uncovered was 19 feet from the 
second trench, and all the twenty burials were found within 
an area of about 13 feet by 26 feet. 
The line of the first trench can be seen on the eastern side 
of the cutting, as this has not been disturbed, and shows that it 
turns away slightly from due east, the distance from the centre 
of the road being 18 feet on the western side and 22 feet 10 inches 
on the eastern side of the opening. When photographed, 
about 8 feet of the second trench w r ere exposed, the humus 
having been cleared and the trench presenting a very clean 
circular form. 
In the course of digging distinct evidences of cremation 
were met with : burnt and charred bones, and pieces of burnt 
pottery. There was no uniformity in the positions of the 
skeletons, the bodies having been laid in various directions. 
One of the last interments uncovered w T as at a depth of 6 feet 
•6 inches, the skeleton being in good preservation, and of a tall, 
well-developed person. No implements of any kind were 
found, but there was a good deal of Romano-British pottery, 
among which were the Samian-ware bowl and the Pot (Plates 
III. and IV.) exhibited at the November meeting of the Club 
and described by Mr. Baddele}?, who has been in close touch 
with the workings at the pits. 
There were also three water-bottles, almost perfect, and 
many fragments of other pots and utensils. 
The site is almost exactly two miles from Glevum, and it is 
possible that the burials were those of some of the inhabitants, 
though the distance is rather further than would be customary. 
At Colchester burials have been found by the high road for a 
mile outside the City*, and there are other records of such 
interments. 
