This glass urn, which contains the remains of cremated bone, is one of a group of Roman objects found during limestone quarrying in the mid 1800's near Barrow upon Soar.
They were evidently buried as 'grave goods', objects left with the dead to help them in the afterlife, and as marks of respect by the living. A 'barrow' is a burial mound, and there are references to a mound being revealed during the quarrying, that had already been almost completely levelled, presumably by ploughing.
Might this have been the barrow that gave Barrow its name?
