A large shed had been fitted up as a museum, and held a number of objects that had been dug up during the excavations.

The girls, poring over the glass cases, looked with interest at a Roman lady's silver hand-mirror, toilet pots, and tiny shears that must have been the early substitute for scissors.

More fascinating still were the toys from a little child's grave, small glass bottles, roughly-made animals of clay, and a carved object that no doubt had been at one time a treasured doll, though now it was crumbling into dust.
Among the pile of broken statues or fragments of ornamental stonework in the corner was a monumental tablet, cracked across in two places, but pieced together for preservation with iron rivets.

The inscription ran: "D.M.

Simpliciae Florentinae Animae Innocentissimae quae vixit menses decem.