Charlie Anne’s Lead Coffin
Charlie Anne Schindler chose this lead coffin, pictured above, as her object. From the museums MODES record she was able to discover that it was found in Brough, which is about 5 miles north of Newark. The Romans knew it as the small town of Crococolana. The lead coffin contains the remains of a young woman aged between 17 and 23. The coffin was discovered by a 15 year old metal detectorist in 1971. Until it went for conservation, 20 years after its discovery, it was thought that the remains were those of a male. Only the rich would have been able to afford to be buried in a lead coffin, most would have used wood. The burial was oriented north/south so was almost certainly pre-Christian. Charlie Anne chose this object because it was such an interesting object and, through the work she has done, she can start to imagine the life of the woman whose remains were found with the coffin.
