Monument record BTT 013 - Roman artefact scatter of pottery and site of cremations.

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Summary

Extract from (R1) discussing (Rom?) cremations etc on the Brettenham Estate - `I also dug out two at the side of ditch between the Park (TL 957 529 - see BTT 009 & 012) and Popple's Farm (BTT 005).

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 954 526 (472m by 475m) Approximate
Map sheet TL95SE
Civil Parish BRETTENHAM, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Extract from (R1) discussing (Rom?) cremations etc on the Brettenham Estate - `I also dug out two at the side of ditch between the Park (TL 957 529 - see BTT 009 & 012) and Popple's Farm (BTT 005). W Bull, the tenant of this farm, says he has found a Roman coin in some ....' (S1)(R1). `A diagram of the burials (BTT 009 or these?) shows the shape of a large amphora, with longish and wide neck, i.e. 3ft 4in high by 2ft 6in at the widest part' (S1). The ditch between `The Park' and Popple's Farm runs from TL 9532 5290 to TL 9580 5242 (and beyond). To accord with the description as between the Park and Popple's Farm, the discoveries described probably derived from the NW half of this length of ditch.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <R1> (No record type): Warner Sir Courtenay, notes on the Brettenham Estate.
  • <S1> (No record type): Copinger-Hill Rev H, `Part of the Peddar Way in Suffolk', PSIA, 18, 1924, 220.

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Protected Status/Designation

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Record last edited

Jun 19 2013 10:16AM

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