More information : (Area TQ 352856). A white marble sarcophagus
containing the skeleton of an adult, found in 1867 during building
work on the brow of the hill behind the London Orphan Asylum
at Clapton, is now in the Guildhall Museum. (The orphanage is
shown at TQ 351856 on the OS 6" map of 1873). No lid was found
with the coffin, although there is evidence of clamps at each
end. It is ornamented on one side with fluting, and a central bust
above an inscription is now only partly decipherable. It was
buried 2 1/2ft deep, resting on natural gravel, and near it was
found a coin of Gallienus.
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