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GENERAL NOTES. 
D URING this year the foundations for the new N.E.R. 
Offices were completed. This necessitated the ex¬ 
cavation of 3,000 square yards of the ground between Tanner 
Row and Tanner’s Moat, the site of Scawin’s Hotel and 
some adjacent buildings. This area was dug out to an 
average depth of 14 to 27J ft. below the road level. The 
nature, and the results, of this excavation will be best under¬ 
stood by reference to Plate VI., which is a re-production of a 
drawing kindly presented to the Society by Mr. Thomas Bell, 
the Architect of the new buildings. On the wdiole, the ex¬ 
cavation was disappointing from an archaeological point of 
view. The objects found, Anglian and Roman, were mostly 
very imperfect, by no means numerous, and of quite ordinary 
type. A good many piles were found, bearing testimony to the 
marshy nature of the ground in past times. All objects of 
antiquity found were carefully preserved by those in charge of 
the work, who took a most intelligent interest in them. 
The most interesting discovery during 1901 was that of a 
Roman stone coffin found in Sycamore Terrace about 1 ft. 6 in. 
from the wall on the S.W. side of Love Lane and half-way 
between the end of Bootham Terrace and that of Queen Anne's 
Road. The coffin lay almost North and South, with the head to 
the North, the lid was little over 1 ft. from the surface. Inside 
were the bones of a young woman, who had (as usual) been 
buried with her ornaments. The objects found in the coffin 
were as follows:—two jet bracelets, 3 in. by \ in. by T % in., 
and 3J in. by \ in. by \ in. ; a bone bracelet, 3 X in. by T % in. 
by J in., and fragments of at least four other bone bracelets ; 
two fragmentary bronze bracelets; two lockets, one silver and 
the other bronze, fin. diameter; two beads of the familiar 
