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> (No record type): Briscoe T, `Some Anglo-Saxon finds from Lakenheath', PSIA, 34, 1979, (3), 167-168, plate 16.
  • <M1> (No record type): Photographs: ATS 17-20.
  • <S2> (No record type): Photographs, SAU ATS 17-20.
  • <M2> (No record type): Anglo-Saxon corpus: object sheet, drawing.
  • <S3> (No record type): West Dr S E, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from E Anglia, Ms, unpublished, 1987, fig.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

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