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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… are virtually unknown, while stone sarcophagi and lead coffins have been found only in the cemetery at Poundbury … that they were made or more probably finished. Wooden coffins were often used and there are three instances of a … partly or wholly Christian. The stone sarcophagi and lead coffins are widely distributed in the area at present known …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Saxon settlement of the region in the 7th century. Wooden coffins, doubtless introduced in the Roman period, are quite … stone slabs or occasionally shale, could enclose wooden coffins and are common except on the Chalk, where graves … of Ham Hill stone; they may contain wooden or plain lead coffins but none is reliably reported as having grave goods. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842), 131, pl. XVII, fig. 1). (ii) Coffins, two, of stone, found in 1855 during drainage … two jet bangles, and H. 319.6, a fragment of a third. (ii) Coffins, two, of stone, marked on the O.S. 1/500 map as … below is now identifiable. In 1813 two uninscribed stone coffins, with blank inscription-panels, were found close …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
A History of the County of York
… the 3rd and 4th centuries by inhumation in large stone coffins, 62 stone or tile-built cists, 63 wooden iron-bound coffins, 64 lead coffins, 65 or simply in graves without coffins. 66 Perhaps …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remains indicates something more. Three burials of rough coffins of local stone were found in 1836, 1840, and 1841 on …