Lozenge or diamond shaped lead coffin plate with border decoration. Inscribed 'Catherine Mary Harriet Saunderson died 2nd of May 1828 aged 9 mons'. The plate was removed from a coffin buried at St Pancras Churchyard. In the 1820s and 1830s up to half of all funerals in London were of children under the age of ten. The poorest families could not afford to bury their children in coffins. Although infant mortality was highest amongst London's poor, all babies were at risk of dying from infection, diarrhoaea and lack of breast milk.
