BURIAL GROUND
URN FOUND IN G ARDEN. Another valuable addition to the Roman treasures in Monmouthshire was made recently, when a magnifi- ( cent burial urn, about one foot in height and nine inches in width, was discovered. The find was made by Mr. John Gibbens, proprietor of a coaehbuilding works on the outskirts of Caerleon. He was digging a foundation " for a new engine at the time. When Mr. Gibbens was constructing •a waterway some time ago he found 19 burial urns, one of which contained a second urn. In another spot he found three urns just below the surface, while Mrs. Gibbens unearthed in her fiower garden a necklace of amber beads. All the finds were made during digging operations connected with r. Gibbens' work, and no attempt has been made to excavate methodically the s'ite. One expert declares that it is unquestionably that of a burial ground, and within 100 yards of it is an old railway cutting, where years ago the magnifieent stone coffins now in Caer- J leon Museum were found.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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175BURIAL GROUND Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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