A personal Roman medicine box from Worcestershire

An excavation at Broadway in Worcestershire has yielded an intact bone box with a sliding lid ( remember those old pencil boxes we used to have?) which appears to have been used to hold a medicinal ointment and was associated with the burial of a young woman.

The discovery in described, along with other discoveries at the largest Roman burial site so far uncovered in the county, in an article from the Daily Telegraph which can be seen at Roman ‘medicine’ box carved from bone uncovered