Burials and Funerary Objects Roman stone coffin from St Albans, Hertfordshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.212

Artist/Designer/Maker

Brown, James - Author

Production date

1813

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Writing (Processes)
Printing
Letterpress Printing

Dimensions

Height: 218mm
Width: 370mm

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 17 (1814): 335-7.

The item is a reprint from James Brown's letter to Nicholas Carlisle, the secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, which was published in Archaeologia (see Bibliography). It contains a description of a stone coffin discovered behind the manor house at Kingsbury, near St Albans. The coffin contained a skeleton and vessels of pottery and glass.