Note 667 — Chapter VII · SURVIVALS IN BURIAL CUSTOMS
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J. Romilly Allen, op. cit. p. 182. A description of stone coffin lids is given by G. Clinch, in Old Eng. Churches, 1903, pp. 180-3. Very small coffin lids of stone, probably memorials of children, and assigned to the late 13th or early 14th century, have been recorded from Deddington, Oxford, and from Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. (Gent. Mag., N.S., XVIII. 1865, pp. 327, 488-9.)