Poorly Located Monument record LKH 514 - Anglo-Saxon artefact scatter, representing a cemetry, including a bone potter's stamp
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Summary
Bone potter's stamp `made of rounded hollow bone which has been split and another small piece of bone with cental depression inserted . Formerly recorded as LKH MISC
Location
| Grid reference | TL 7 8 (point) Poorly located |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TL78SW |
| Civil Parish | LAKENHEATH, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
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Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Bone potter's stamp `made of rounded hollow bone which has been split and another small piece of bone with cental depression inserted ... The bone tube has a waist, carved out 2 cm from the top, and the tool is decorated with three incised rings below it and two above'. According to a note attached to the stamp it comes from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Lakenheath (LKH 041?) (S1)(S2)(S3).
For other potter's stamps, see Eriswell 055 and West Stow 002.
Formerly recorded as LKH MISC
Sources/Archives (5)
- <S1> SSF1550 (No record type): Briscoe T, `Some Anglo-Saxon finds from Lakenheath', PSIA, 34, 1979, (3), 167-168, plate 16.
- <M1> SSF36702 (No record type): Photographs: ATS 17-20.
- <S2> SSF16387 (No record type): Photographs, SAU ATS 17-20.
- <M2> SSF36703 (No record type): Anglo-Saxon corpus: object sheet, drawing.
- <S3> SSF22945 (No record type): West Dr S E, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from E Anglia, Ms, unpublished, 1987, fig.
Finds (1)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
May 21 2020 8:47AM