NOTICE OF AN ANGLO-ROMAN SARCOIMIACHS,

DISCOVERED IN HERTFORDSIl I UK. Anjlo Roman Sarcophagi. The singular sarcopliagus, of whicli a representation is here given, was found near llarpenden, in Hertfordshire ; the pre- cise circumstances of the discovery have not been recorded. It was presented to the British Museum in 1844, by C. W. Packe, Esq., M.P. for Northamptonshire, together with the vases which had been discovered in it^. The sarcophagus consists of a central body or chest, not perfectly cylindrical, covered by a massive rectangular lid, which had been Inokcu

• The plass and i-ed Roman vases wove ciety of Antiquaries. Arohceologia, vol. xxiv.

oxhibited in March, 18.31, before the So- p. ,349.