Grave 2, that of an adult male, had been cut into the fill of the earlier Roman pit F3 just inside its southern edge. Approximately 0.4m of the grave shaft remained and the burial itself was undisturbed. The most interesting aspect of this burial is that while the surviving bones showed the body had been interred in a coffin at the base of the shaft, the skull, with articulated mandible and uppermost vertebrae, was encountered slightly higher in the grave fill, located above the areas of the left knee. The skull was resting on its left side facing the foot of the grave, and the shaft of an iron nail was located just below the level of the chin pointing towards and almost toughing the centre of the surviving spinal column. The surviving remains of the body in the base of the grave shaft consisted mainly of long bones in a supine position with the lower arm flexed towards the right hip, and the coffin outline was indicated by iron nails and a soil change on the north side of the grave. The body appeared to have been placed in the coffin allowing usual space for the skull to occupy its normal position. Though none of the vertebrae with the body had survived, so that the skull and body could be securely reunited, those articulated with the skull showed it had been detached with a single oblique chop from behind severing the fourth cervical vertebra, while there were at least three other cut wounds to the lower back of the skull. There were also some indications of infection about the right eye socket. The latest dated material from the grave fill was a sherd of oxidised Hadham ware of the mid-late 3rd or 4th century.<1>