Monument record ONW 005 - Findspot of Roman cremation urns. (Rom)

Cremation burials in urns found at the bottom of a narrow shaft, circa 1875, while workmen were raising stone in a low lying meadow.
Finds included a glass (blue-green) urn with a lid, 12 inches high; an 8 and a half inch high urn of similar glass containing a cremation and 10 glass counters (5 white, 5 black); an amber glass flask with a handle, 7 inches high; a blue-green glass 'lachrymatory' 4 inches high; a 5 inch high light brown pottery vessel; 3 glass beads; a pair of bronze handles, 3 and a half inches long; 5 bronze rings, 1 and a half inches in diameter; and a broken Bronze Age spearhead. All of these were in the possession of Dr Low in 1909. He also records that two pottery lamps were found that passed into the possession of Dr J E Taylor of Ipswich Museum and then lost; also a 4 inch high pottery vessel, then in the possession of Mrs Pretyman of Haughley Park and another one taken by a workman and destroyed (S1).
In 1908 Dr Low organised an excavation at the findspot, but found the area disturbed. A fragment of amber glass and Roman grey and red wares were found (S1).
See also BA.