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these were a bronze fibula, a bronze ring, an agate seal, represent¬ 
ing two doves seated on an urn from wMcb a flame issues. On the 
left of the trench and very nea,r the surface a cist was found, com¬ 
posed of immense blocks of stone, containing a skeleton laid out at 
length, and east and west. A few articles were found with it, 
proving the interment to be Roman. A cutting was made for the 
Malton Waterworks at the close of 1866, extending from the S.E. 
corner of the Roman station to a point opposite the Praetorian gate, 
and the Roman ford across the river. Here the superimposed dark 
soil, with Roman pottery, &c., was seen overl 3 ring the original 
alluvium, in which remains of the red-deer, flint imjflements, and 
bone pins, unworked, were the chief relics. Among the Roman 
remains were large fragments of Samian pottery, two of which have 
potter’s names (Zattom and Saijcieo) not found in the list given in 
Wright’s ‘‘Celt, Roman and Saxon.” The coins are chiefly those 
of Severus, the Tetrici, and Constantine. Great numbers of the 
shells of the edible snail were found at the base of the ramj^art. 
Purther on two skeletons were found, disposed so that their feet 
touched each other in the form of a Y, with one of which was a 
flint scraper, and two flakes of flint. They may have been attached 
to the camp of the Roman auxiliaries, but their race has not been 
identified. Another skull, which Mr. Greenwell supposes to have 
belonged to one of the auxiliaries of the camp, was found in a coffer 
dam, made by the North-Eastern Railway Company, in the bank 
on the Malton side of the Derwent. Immediately below it, and at 
a dej)th of eighteen feet, was an oak tree, with the skeleton of a 
red-deer. These rested upon the Kimmeridge clay, which forms 
the basis of the Vale of Pickering, but between them and the 
skeleton were layers of clay, peat and sand to the depth of four feet, 
showing that a long interval had elapsed between the fall of the 
tree and the death of the human being. The bones of a red-deer, 
with those of an ox and a hog, have also been found, at a depth of 
sixteen feet, upon‘the limestone rock at Hutton, where the North- 
Eastern Railway Company have constructed coffer dams for the 
viaduct which they are erecting. 
April 2. —The Rev. J. Kenrick gave an account of the discovery 
of a Roman leaden cofiin six feet below the siufface near the North- 
Eastern Railway Station. It contained a tolerably perfect skeleton, 
probably of a female. It had been laid in plaster or lime, but not 
covered with that material j only an iron implement, the use of 
