When the body was placed in a stone chest or sarcophagus, it was in full dress, on its back, on the bottom of the chest, and any relics which were intended to be buried with it were laid about. The chest, as is evident from the examples found at York, was then partly filled with liquid lime, the face alone not being covered with the corroding liquid. When now found, a perfect impression of the figure is preserved in the bed of lime in which it was encased, and in some instances even the colour and texture of the dress is plainly distinguishable.[36] Frequently the stone chest contained a leaden coffin, in which the body was placed. A remarkably fine sculptured chest found in London,[37] and others found at York,[38] will be sufficient references to these interesting sarcophagi, which are occasionally inscribed. A tomb of a different description, which will be seen to partake largely of the construction of the stone cist of the earlier period, is here engraved (fig. 206). It is formed of ten rough slabs of gritstone, two on each side, one at each end, and four others laid as covering on the top. On removing the covering stones, a regularly shaped mass of lime presented itself, which had derived its form from a wooden coffin that had so nearly perished as to leave only small fragments behind. The wood was evidently cedar. On turning over this mass of lime an impression of the body of a man, which had been enveloped in, or covered with, a coarse linen cloth, fragments of which still remained, was distinctly seen. In another instance the impression of the body of a woman who had been clothed in rich purple, with a small child laid upon her lap, was distinctly visible in the lime. [Illustration: Fig. 206.] [Illustration: Fig. 207.]