Urn Burial Research Articles

Note of a Cist and Urn of Drinking-Cup Type found at Broomdykes, Edrom, Berwickshire

A stone-built short cist contained a burial urn and very degraded fragments of bone.

I. Account of a Burial Urn, discovered at Colney, in Norfolk, in a Letter from the Rev. William Gibson, M. A. and F. A. S. to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

I have the honour to transmit to you, and by your favour to submit to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries, sketches of what I presume is a Roman Burial Urn, dug up on the 26th day of April last, by labourers employed in raising gravel, for the repair of the adjoining turnpike-road, from a pit in the parish of Colney, situate three miles to the west of the city of Norwich, on the way to Hingham. The sketches are the work of an unskilful hand, but they may serve perhaps to convey no very inaccurate idea of their subject. Of these, No. 1, (Pl. I. fig. 1.) is intended to represent the appearance of the Urn previously to its having been broken near the brim. No. 2, its appearance after having been broken on one side. No. 3, a part of it, with its ornaments, nearly in their true size and proportions.

XIV. Account of Roman Antiquities discovered in the County of Gloucester. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.A.S.

Plate IX. Fig. 1. A burial urn of glass, found about twenty-five years since, in a field called Kingsmead, about half a mile distant from Cirencester; it was wrapped in lead, and deposited in a stone hollowed out to receive it; it is of a greenish colour, not very transparent, but well-moulded, having several raised circles on its bottom, quite smooth, without any appearance of having ever been fastened to a blowing iron as all modern glass vessels are in the making, which have therefore a rough mark at the bottom, unless they have been afterwards ground smooth. Its diameter at the top is five inches and three eighths, height ten inches and one eighth, and width at the bottom five inches and five eighths. It is in the possesion of C. H. Parry, M. D. of Bath.