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In digging a sewer near the same spot, a large number of hazel nuts 
were found at the depth of sixteen feet, but no organic remains 
appeared anywhere in the boring. 
In the course of some sewerage operations an ancient cemetery 
was found, in a part of Selby called Churchill, near the Abbey 
Church. It was about eight feet below the present surface, and all 
the interments had been made by dividing trunks of oak longitu¬ 
dinally, hollowing out the interior, and placing a body within. The 
divided pieces had then been laid upon each other, sometimes without 
any fastening to hold them together. One of them contained a 
skeleton, which appeared to be that of a middle aged female. A 
perfect skull found in one of them, had been presented to the Society 
by T. C. Newstead, Esq., who also sent a sketch of the coffin, and of 
some beads of baked clay found within it. From the entire absence 
of coins, or any works of art, except these beads, it is difficult to 
pronounce whether these interments were Saxon or British; but the 
probability is that they were Saxon. 
December 4. —The Rev. J. Kenrick gave an account of the 
recent discovery of a considerable extent of the Roman wall of York 
near Monk Bar. No portion of it had been previously found on the 
North Eastern side of the City, but by this discovery our knowledge 
of its course has been completed. From the Multangular Tower, and 
the Society’s grounds, it passed behind Lendal, across St. Helen’s 
Square, where a gateway leading to the river had been discovered, 
across New Street to the junction of Feasegate with Jubbergate 
(Market Street). Here the remains of an angular tower have been 
discovered, and here the wall turned and ran toward the North East. 
It crossed Parliament Street, and passed a short distance on the North 
side of Christ Church, where the Praetorian gate probably stood, and 
near which the tablet was found which commemorates some work per¬ 
formed by the IXth Legion at the command of Trajan. It has been 
found again at the lower end of Bedern, about twenty yards from St. 
Andrewgate, and it probably terminated in another angular tower 
near the IMerchant Taylors’ Hall in Aldwark. From this angle it 
turned Westward, and between this point and Monk Bar about forty 
yards of it have been recently laid open by the removal of the earthen 
rampart of the mediaeval wall of the City. The internal facing of 
dressed stone, which has disappeared in the greater part of what is 
preserved in the grounds of the JMuseum, still exists here. The 
interior of the wall is composed of rubble, united by that tenacious 
mortar which characterizes Roman masonry. Some pieces of Samian 
