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06-19-2022, 07:30 AM
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Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Having been kept in a crypt for the past 140 years some of the lead coffins were opened by the Archaeologists when this church crypt was cleared. This is one of the faces that met them when the triple shell wood-lead-wood coffin was opened.  They used to stack em high too! Although only 4 are visible in this stack there were actually 7, one on top of the other in this part of the crypt. https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk...g/np000001.jpg |
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06-19-2022, 09:19 AM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Great find! Very interesting.   ·
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06-19-2022, 12:12 PM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Very poorly stored too. I wonder how much better they would have looked if properly cared for.
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06-19-2022, 11:48 PM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
not that we would know the difference, but seeing this makes me feel very confident in my decision to be cremated. lol
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06-20-2022, 01:31 AM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Well the guy appears to have been buried when probably not elderly  |
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06-20-2022, 03:35 PM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Good question, i've got a hardback book called The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral Since 1450 from 1991 and there's photos in there of coffins in their vaults going back more than 200 years, one from the late 1700s still looks brand new, and the red fabric covering it is in pristine condition. They used to stack those coffins for space reasons and sometimes because of the smell, they'd have to put 12 inches of earth and 8 inches of powdered charcoal on top of them, the crypts ended up being filled from floor to ceiling that way. |
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06-20-2022, 03:42 PM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
In the 1700s a lead coffin was uncovered.. A little before the Great Conflagration, somebody made a hole in the lead coffin of Dean Colet, which lay above the ground beneath his statue. I remember my friend Mr Wylde and Ralph Greatrex, the mathematical instrument maker, decided to probe the Dean's body through the hole with a piece of iron curtain rod that happened to be near by. They found the body lay in liquor, like boiled brawn. The liquor was clear and insipid: they both tasted it. Mr Wylde said it had something of the taste of iron, but that might have been on account of the iron rod. This was a strange and rare way of conserving a corpse. Perhaps it was a pickle, as for beef. There was no ill smell. I literally have no comments, lol. |
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06-22-2022, 02:25 AM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Sounds like an interesting book. I'll try to get my hands on it as well, i love stuff like this. 
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06-22-2022, 10:11 AM
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Re: Exumation of Victorian Coffins in 1984/86
Ah excellent, i've always liked this stuff too. They did cover some of a crypt clearance on this tv show called Changing Tombs, back in 1999, it can be found on youtube, they've got a few examples of very well preserved bodies on that show. Julian Litten is the author of that book The English Way of Death by the way, it's from 1991, and it's a bit hard to come by, i got mine from a charity shop online in near pristine condition, a first edition luckily enough. I hope you can find it. |
