X. Account of a Roman Sepulture lately found in Lincolnshire. By Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S.

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The Urn and stone Chest, of which the annexed drawing is a representation, were found on the 26th of October last at Ashby Puerorum in Lincolnshire, by a labourer employed in cutting a ditch, to separate the cultivated part of a ploughed field from a road which passes along one side of it. The top of the stone chest lay three feet below the surface of the ground, no elevation whatever was observable in the soil over it, and the road near which it lay is not an ancient highway, having been set out as such under the powers of an Enclosure Act a few years ago.