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Roman stone slabs and packing from pipe burial
Slabs and packing that formed a roughly walled cist built into a grave pit containing a lead canister decorated with three rings of bead and reel pattern and three applied vertical strips. From the lid a narrow leaden pipe had evidently at one time communicated with the surface. The cylinder contained cremated bones of a person aged at least 35 years.
The pipe burial cremated remains were re-examined in August 2001 by Dr Alice Roberts of Bristol University and modern analysis could not confirm the sex of the individual.
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Site Name: Ultra Pontem, Caerleon
Notes: Found during building operations in Ultra Pontem, the suburb of Caerleon on the southern bank of the Usk, some 60 yards east of Yew Tree House and 550 yards east-south-east of the south-east end of the bridge.
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