[667] J. Romilly Allen, op. cit. p. 182. A description of stone coffin lids is given by G. Clinch, in Old Eng. Churches, 1903, pp. 180-3. Very small coffin lids of stone, probably memorials of children, and assigned to the late 13th or early 14th century, have been recorded from Deddington, Oxford, and from Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. (Gent. Mag., N.S., XVIII. 1865, pp. 327, 488-9.)
[668] G. Maynard, in Memorials of Old Essex, ed. A. Clifton Kelway, 1908, p. 37. For Roman coffins of clay and lead, see The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, 2nd edition, 1861, pp. 313-5. The 4th edition, 1885, pp. 370-5, contains a fuller account of wooden coffins.
[669] Guide to Bronze Age, p. 54.
[670] Sir J. Evans, Anc. Stone Impts of Gt Britain, 2nd edition, 1897, p. 185; W. Greenwell, British Barrows, 1877, p. 376 n., gives a summary of discoveries of this kind.
[671] Sir J. Evans, op. cit. p. 398; J. R. Mortimer, Forty Years’ Researches, p. xxvii and note.
[672] Sir J. Evans, op. cit. p. 398.
[673] L. Jewitt, Grave Mounds and their Contents, 1870, pp. 143-7. Cf. Gen. A. Pitt-Rivers, Excavations in Cranborne Chase, II. pp. 3, 32, 40; III. pp. 15, 17, 321, etc.
[674] Sir A. Mitchell, The Past in the Present, 1889, pp. 242-3.
[675] Folk-Memory, p. 134.
[676] J. Romilly Allen, Monumental Hist. of the Early Brit. Church, 1889, p. 65.