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broken. Below the crack, in the lid of the leaden shell, was a 
jagged hole. A similar hole ran tlirongh the gypsmn, showing 
it had been made after the gypsum had become hard, and below 
all, in a line with the other fissiu’es, the great stone chest which 
enclosed all, was cracked as well. I leave it to the ingennity of 
111 }^ audience to suggest what had caused this mischief. If it is 
attributable to lightning the coffin must have been originally 
close to the sm’face. I may mention also that under the coffin 
were found a piece of wrought bronze and a second brass coin 
of Domitian. It is to be conjectiu’ed, therefore, that this was a 
late interment, probably of the fom*th centmy. In the posses¬ 
sion of this tress of hair, the York Museum has a curiosity of 
which no other English collection can show the like. I believe 
that some fragments of hair, with a leaf or two of a withered 
crown of bay leaves, were discovered many years ago at Chester- 
ford, near Cambridge, but they were nothing to this. But this 
is not the only discovery of the same kind that has been made 
in York. Through the kindness of Messrs. Hargrove, a series 
of notes taken by their father dining the excavations for the 
present Railway Station and its approaches, some 35 years ago, 
have been placed in my hands, and to them I am indebted 
for the record of a somewhat similar discovery. I feel boimd to 
remark that it would have been well for the cause of science if 
all other persons interested in antiquities while those excavations 
were being made, had described what they saw and obtained, 
ivith Mr. Hargrove’s precision and accuracy. It is compara¬ 
tively useless to possess objects, however choice they may be, 
unless we know under what cncumstances, and in what combina¬ 
tions, they were found. Tliis, Mr. Hargrove has told us, and 
we are greatly indebted to him for his care. He shall tell his 
own tale pretty much in his own words.—-On the 31st of 
August, 1840, the railway laboimers whilst excavating outside 
the City Walls, not far, in all probability, from the interment 
which we have just been describing, came upon a large tomb in 
a bed of sand, some six feet from the simface. It was made of 
brick, 81 feet in length on the outside, and 4J feet in vidth. 
The walls were formed of bricks about eleven inches square, 
joined together with cement; on the top was an arched roof 
