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|  Posted 19-12-2007 at 16:50
A spectacular Roman coffin is on display at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. The limestone coffin, weighing three metric tonnes, was found by Wessex Archaeology earlier in 2007. It was discovered as part of the excavation of a Roman cemetery containing over 200 burials next to a substantial Roman settlement on Boscombe Down.
Inside the coffin archaeologists found the body of a woman wearing a jet necklace and copper anklet. She was cradling a small child in her arms. Incredibly, the damp conditions inside the coffin had preserved the calf skin shoes of the child and cork soled slippers of the adult. Near the head of the woman there was a small beaker that had been made in France.
Speaking about the new display, Adrian Green, Museum Director said: ‘This is a very important discovery, of the 200 Roman burials found at the site, this was the only stone coffin found, suggesting that the woman buried within was of some importance. The level of preservation inside the coffin was also unusual, although the body had deteriorated; items made from jet and animal skin do not usually survive buried in the ground for over 1,800 years’.
The stone coffin arrived at the Museum on Monday 17th December 2007 and is on display in the main foyer. The coffin comes from the same area where the famous Amesbury Archer was found in 2002.
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