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Excerpt from A Description of England and Wales, Vol. 10: Containing a Particular Account of Each County, With Its Antiquities, Curiosities, Situation, Figure, Extent, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Mineral Waters, Soils, Fossils, Caverns, Plants and Minerals, Agriculture
Purton is a village three miles fouth by welt of Crekelade. 'in opening a grave a few years ago, in the chancel of the church here, a free fione coffin was found, at the depth of three feet from the furface'; it was fix feet fix inches long, twenty-twoiinches broad, eleven inches deep, and three inches thick;' The coffin was hollowed with great exa�inefs, to receive the head, but in other refpe�is, was of no very curious workmanfnip. In the bottom was a fmall hole, probably intended to letiout the moifture. It had no lid, and from forne remains of a board in it, the lid was proba bly of wood. There was no infcription upon it to fhevv its antiquity, but it is highly probable that it had lain there for fome centuries. Three fculls Of'an ordinary fize were taken out of it; but as it did not feem capable Of receiving more than one corpfe, they probably fell in by accident.
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