Context (Related Documents)
Exhibition label in archive.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
Skeleton previously in Duckworth Collection, number EU.I.3.178
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
A: Massive stone coffin and lid, of Barnack Rag. The lid is intact; the lower part of the coffin had been broken at the time of deposit to make it long enough to accommodate the inner coffin of lead Extern. length 6' 8" int. length 5' 11" extern. width at head 2' 8" int. width at head 2' extern. width at foot 2' 2.5" int. width at foot 1' 7" extern. depth at head 1' 2" int. depth at head 11" extern, depth at foot 11" int. depth at foot 8" .
B: Lead coffin found inside A, with plain lid with turned down edges. Length 6' 3.5" width at head 19.5" width at foot 18.5" depth at head 9.5" depth at foot 9" . Lead analysis will appear in report. The catalogue card reads 'This burial contained the skeleton of a man with a few fragments ^ of woven material (D), and ^ of much decayed glass between the lead and the stone coffins at the head. (C)'.
Event Date 1952
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Previously on display on the ground floor gallery from 24 November 1952 until c. 1983. (see 1952 correspondence archive)
Event Date 24/11/1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Burial 1. Excavated in 19 August 1952: Found when laying sewerage pipes for new building estate, 19th August 1952, by Messrs Sindall (Contractors) Grid Ref. approx 52/452608. The coffin had been covered by a rectangular building with a wall and floor of chalk (Melbourn Rock).
Lead analysis will appear in report.
Event Date 19/8/1952
Author: maa

Context (References)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Report. December 1953. pp. 3.
Event Date 1953
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Frend, W.H.C. (1955). 'A Romano-British Settlement at Arbury Road, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol XLVIII. pp. 10-43.
Event Date 1955
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Fell, Clare. (1956). 'Roman Burials Found at Arbury Road, Cambridge, 1952'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol XLIX. pp. 13-23.
Event Date 1956
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Frend, W.H.C. (1959). 'Further Finds on the Arbury Road Estate'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol LII. pp. 69-72.
Event Date 1959
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Liversidge, Joan. (1977). 'Roman Burials in the Cambridge Area'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol LXVII. pp. 11-38.
Event Date 1977
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Taylor, A. (1984). 'A Roman Stone Coffin from Stuntney and Gazetteer of Similar Coffins in Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 73, pp. 15-22.
Event Date 1984
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)