URN OF ANCIENT BONE
EXCAVATED AT OAERLJ3ON. Workmen excavating on tho sate of tho Homan burial ground at Caerlcon, half-a-mile from tho amphitheatre, recently discovered a small chamber which contained a lead urn 2ft high and loin in diameter. The chamber .was nearly full of human bones and teeth, which were in a poor state of preservation. Tho Homan amphitheatre was secured for the nation with the aid of funds provided by the “Daily Mail.”
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1927, Page 2
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75URN OF ANCIENT BONE Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1927, Page 2
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