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XXIX.—Account of Roman Remains found at Box Moor, Herts. Communicated by John Evans, Esq. of Nash Mills, to Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., V.P., and Director

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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The Antiquities represented in the annexed anastatic Sketch have been found in the immediate vicinity of Boxmoor Station, on the London and North Western Railway, and have nearly all been brought to light and preserved by the intelligent clerk at that station, Mr. Byles. The neighbourhood was first known to contain any Roman remains through the discovery in 1837 of some Roman sepulchral interments in the burial-ground attached to Box Lane Chapel, which is about 300 yards distant from the station. An Account of the Objects then discovered will be found in the Archaeologia, vol. XXVII. p. 434. They consisted of a circular glass urn about 12 inches in diameter; the fragments of another of the same character; another of a square form with a handle; an earthen præfericulum or pitcher-shaped vessel used for funereal libations; a bronze lamp-stand and an earthen lamp; together with a number of large iron nails, with which the wooden cistae in which the interments were made were fastened together. It will be at once observed that these remains and those represented in the sketch are of a totally different character; the one being adapted for sepulchral and the other for domestic purposes. The majority of the latter were found in and around one of those circular pits or culinae which are not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Roman buildings.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1852

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page 394 note a See Mr. C. Roach Smith's Richborough, p. 55.

page 396 note a This pavement has since been excavated.