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twenty or thirty yards above the Cholera Biinal-gronnd. By 
the side of this road, as might be expected, were a considerable 
number of interments, amongst which was found the greater 
part of a small sepulchral tablet, the second inscribed stone 
which has been secured for the Museum in the course of the 
year. At a short distance a stone coffin was discovered, which 
contained a good impression in lime of the body of a girl, in 
which several of her personal ornaments were imbedded. In 
the space cleared for the new Station Hotel, five or six large 
stone coffins were found and opened, which were more interesting 
than such repositories of the dead generally are. Two of them 
have been brought to the grounds of the Society and are now 
laid side by side, as they were found, and may be seen to the 
south of the Hospitium beneath the elder bushes. That to the 
right contained the skeleton of a female, the other a mother and 
her infant child. Alongside the first-mentioned coffin, vith its 
head close to the end, was laid a skeleton, under the back of 
wffiich were detected the remains of a box containing several 
curious ornaments and vessels of glass, which vrere unhappily 
broken. It would seem probable that this was a servant laid 
close to her mistress, and charged even in death with the custody 
of some of her treasures which she might possibly requiin. This 
is not the only case in which a similar box has been foimd. 
Another stone coffin, which has been recently brought to the 
Museum, is finely sculptured on the exterior, in a manner 
somewhat resembling the pair which were handed over to the 
Museum several years ago by the Dean and Chapter of York. 
Large additions have jDeen made during the year to the Society’s 
already most choice collection of Eoman pottery. Among these 
may be mentioned the whole of the vessels discovered in several 
graves, which will be kept apart to illustrate the method of 
Eoman sepulture. Among the smaller pieces is a part of the 
mould in which a Samian vessel has been cast, the only instance 
as yet noted in England, and important, as it shows that such 
articles for domestic use were manufactured in Ebimacum. The 
collection of objects illustrative of Eoman life preserved in the 
Museum, is now much larger than that from any one place in 
the kingdom. It is much to be desired that individual coUec- 
