Note 668 — Chapter VII · SURVIVALS IN BURIAL CUSTOMS
Reading edition
G. Maynard, in Memorials of Old Essex, ed. A. Clifton Kelway, 1908, p. 37. For Roman coffins of clay and lead, see The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, 2nd edition, 1861, pp. 313-5. The 4th edition, 1885, pp. 370-5, contains a fuller account of wooden coffins.