Archaeologia cantiana . ised lines, similarly employed,upon a leaden coffin which was found, in May, 1853, in Haydon Scpare,Minories, London. It is engraved in the Jour. Brit. Archajol. Assoc.,ix. 163. It likewise resembles that which adorned a coffin found, inMansell Street, Whitechapel, in 1843, as shewn in Jour. Brit. , ii. 299. It may also be compared with a moulding engravedin the Transactions of the Evening Meetings of the London and INIid-dlesex Archaeological Society, for 1862, page 78, from a coffin foundin Camden Gardens, Bethnal Green, in March, 1862.—W. A. S. R. j FR
Archaeologia cantiana . ised lines, similarly employed,upon a leaden coffin which was found, in May, 1853, in Haydon Scpare,Minories, London. It is engraved in the Jour. Brit. Archajol. Assoc.,ix. 163. It likewise resembles that which adorned a coffin found, inMansell Street, Whitechapel, in 1843, as shewn in Jour. Brit. , ii. 299. It may also be compared with a moulding engravedin the Transactions of the Evening Meetings of the London and INIid-dlesex Archaeological Society, for 1862, page 78, from a coffin foundin Camden Gardens, Bethnal Green, in March, 1862.—W. A. S. R. j FROM BEX HILL. 169 tioo narrow rings are placed between each pair ofbeads, and the beads themselves are smaller than inthe moulding of the other coffin. The nine rectan-gular compartments are not of equal depth, l3ut arcalternately deep and shallow. Each of the shallowcompartments, of which there are five, is occupied bya pair of lions (Fig. 4), which stand face to face,having between them a jug-like vase (Fig. 5). Each. Fiff. 4.
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