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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A large circular glass bottle with handle, green-blue in colour. The bottle is about a third full of fragments of bones, which, though now quite white, have every appearance of having been burnt. Pieces of the skull and of the smaller bones are easily identified. Until the end of the second century most bodies were cremated, and the burnt bones were usually interred in a pot or glass bottle. This vessel is complete which is remarkable considering the pressure it was under from the surrounding earth. 1st century A.D. Source: Fox, F. 1848 Archaeologia Cambrensis III
Site Name: Caerleon, Newport: Gwent
Notes: found during excavations for a new railway near Caerleon
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