Poorly Located Monument record LMD 307 - Roman artefact scatter of glass and pottery vessels containing cremations

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Summary

Glass and pottery vessels containing cremations found March 1823 (R1); nearby skeletons and coins of Hadrian and Vespasian. Formerly recorded as LMD MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 87 47 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL84NE
Civil Parish LONG MELFORD, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (3)

Full Description

Glass and pottery vessels containing cremations found March 1823 (R1); nearby skeletons and coins of Hadrian and Vespasian. Found "300 yards from the Stour". Found by workmen digging for gravel at a depth of 6ft from surface. The vessel and urn stood at a distance of 2ft from each other, and the former was covered by a patera reversed as a lid. It had contained calcined bones. Both urns appeared to have held ashes (AD 117-38) (S1-S4). Probably LMD 009, 012 area.


NGR refers to parish only.

Formerly recorded as LMD MISC

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> (No record type): Archaeologia, 25, 1831, 394.
  • <S2> (No record type): Style, Archaeologia, 23, 394-395.
  • <S3> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 1, 223.
  • <S4> Bibliographic reference: 1911. Victoria County History, Suffolk (VCH). 312-313.

Finds (3)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:47AM

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