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A Lead-lined Coffin Burial from Winchester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Michael Morris
Michael Morris
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Winchester Archaeology Office
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Britannia , Volume 17 , November 1986 , pp. 343 - 346
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Copyright © Michael Morris 1986. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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73 I am grateful to Ms C M . Brooks for advice on this paper.

74 Excavation and recording were carried out by t he writer for t he Winchester Archaeology Office. Full details of the work will be published in K.E. Qualmann, Winchester Excavations since 1972: The Eastern Suburb (forthcoming). I am grateful to Ken Qualmann for his advice and assistance during the excavation and in the preparation of this note, to Bob Holmes for aiding the removal and examination of the coffin, and to C. Sparey-Green for his valuable interpretative comments.

75 Various reports in the Hampshire Chronicle in 1930. Copies of these, and finds, are held by Winchester City Museum (AA2.104 Ward Evans papers 13).

77 Thanks are due to Pauline Sheppard for examining the human and animal bone from the site.

78 Galloway, P. in Clarke, G., The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills, Winchester Studies 3 Part ii (1979), 247, fig. 31.Google Scholar

79 Cf. The discussion of the Lankhills Cenotaph by J.L. Macdonald in Clarke (ibid.), 421–3.

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81 Bonded tiles and wall plaster were recovered from the robber trench of the mausoleum at Welwyn (Britannia xv (1984), 145–7).

82 K.E. Qualmann in M. Biddle (ed.), Winchester Studies 4 (forthcoming).

83 A comparable situation has been noted to the south west of Cirencester (Ant Journ. lviii pt. I (1978), 67).

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