More information : [SU 6382 6309] Stone Coffin found [T.I.]. (1)
Conventional authorisation of published entry - no details. (2-3)
'An inhumation in a stone sarcophagus, accompanied by a small pottery bottle of 2nd century date, was found in 1852 at the top of the slope, just to the east of the line of the Roman road from the North Gate. The bottle is of cream-coloured ware, and has a decoration of raised lozenges of orange spots. (4)
Graphical material ommitted. (5)
In Love Lane, about 35 yds. beyond the outer earthwork, a stone coffin was found. (6)
No explanation can be offered as to the manner in which the burial is shown on the published plan in V.C.H. (see 5). It resembles, in plan, the wheel-tomb found on West Mersea, Essex. It could be an extraordinary view of the pottery bottle from above. Both suggestions are most unlikely. (7)
Site of a possible cemetery was identified to the north of the town in 1852. A stone sarcophagus situated within a circular tomb, six metres in diameter, was recorded. (8-9)
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