A small excavation to the rear of 47 Butt Road revealed three late Roman inhumation burials, two of which were cut into the backfill of a large Roman pit, possibly a sand quarry. The burials conformed to the east-west alignment of the main late Roman cemetery at Butt Road, dated after AD 320/40, and two had nailed wooden coffins. One of these was that of a young adult female, accompanied by four copper-alloy armlets indicating a probably burial date in the late 4th century. The other coffined burial was a decapitated adult male, and the skull, with articulated jaw and vertebrae, had been placed slightly higher in the grave fill above the left knee. This decapitation appears to have been carried out in the manner of – and may represent – an execution, as one of the several blows causing cuts to the back of the skull had obliquely severed through one of the neck vertebrae. The third burial, that of a young adult, had been partly disturbed by later pit-cutting, though there was no indication that a coffin had been present. The burial area in which the three graves are located appears to be separate from that of the main, probably Christian cemetery at Butt Road. <1>