A11430/5

Print of Romano-British items from the Maidstone Road,Chatham; as reported in Arch Cant XII (1878); shows glass & ceramic vessels & an oil lamp; for fragments of the lead coffin associated with these objects see A2541/1-2; on the 16th May 1878 a lead coffin was dug up in the SW corner of the New Cemetery, Chatham, near the Maidstone Road; the coffin was 6' long & decorated with 'billet' moulding worked at the head into a triangular pattern with a scallop design; the coffin had been within an iron-bound wooden case; it contained the skeleton of an adult male with a glass vessel; outside were two other glass vessels & two ceramic pots.

1878 - 1878

late 19th century