GENERAL NOTES. 
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“eye” type, J in. diameter; two clear amber-coloured glass 
ornaments, with glass rings—perhaps ear-drops ; 37 blue glass 
beads, cubical with bevelled angles, and 34 blue glass discs— 
all these together probably forming a necklace ; a beautiful dark 
blue glass jug, 4I in. by 2\ in. (in broadest part), the mouth 
i\ in. across; a roughly shaped disc of thin whitish glass; 
and a bone slip, in four pieces, 5! in. by § in. by in., cut 
out so as to leave the letters—(SOR) O (R) AVE VIVAS IN 
DEO. These objects are figured on Plate VII., which is 
enlarged from a photograph. The inscription, the words of 
which will be familiar to all who are conversant with early 
epitaphs, proves that the girl thus buried was a Christian. 
The stone coffin, a very rough one, was not inscribed : possibly 
the burial took place in times of persecution when it would 
have been dangerous to have allowed the local authorities to 
see it bearing a Christian inscription. No mouth coins were 
found—and their absence is natural in a Christian interment. 
The object of the glass jug and disc must remain a matter of 
conjecture, but we may hazard the supposition that they formed 
the cruet and paten for the Viaticum. The coffin is placed near 
the ruins of S. Leonard’s Hospital in the Museum Grounds, and 
the bones and objects (see Plate VII.) found in the coffin are 
preserved in the museum of Roman antiquities. 
An interesting little hoard of Roman coins was 
found by Mr. John Harrison in cutting a drain (2 ft. 6 in. 
depth) on the “ Flower of May ” Farm, 200 yards South of the 
Roman Road (Malton “Street”), connecting Derventio 
(Malton) and Isurium (Aldborough). The coins were of the 
reigns of Theodosius, Honorius, Gratian, Valens, Valentinian, 
and Constantine. They had apparently been buried in a bag, 
probably a leather one, but the material of the bag was so 
rotten that it would not bear handling. 
PRESENTED 
10 MAY. 190? 
