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Description: | PRN 60303
A MIS-CAST AMPHORA-SHAPED COPPER ALLOY STRAP-END DATED BY KEVIN LEAHY, OF SCUNTHORPE MUSEUM, TO THE 4TH CENTURY. THIS IS OF A TYPE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A CONTINENTAL IMPORT. THIS IS AN UN-FINISHED EXAMPLE DISCARDED BEFORE COMPLETED AND THEREFORE WAS PROBABLY MADE LOCALLY. {1}
ALSO RECOVERED WAS POTTERY FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTH CENTURY, AND ALSO TILE AND GLASS, REPORTED IN 1950. {2}{6}
IN 1996 ROMAN POTTERY, INCLUDING GREY WARE, COLOUR-COATED, SAMIAN WITH TILE BUT NO MOSAIC TESSERAE SEEN. ALSO TWO FOURTH CENTURY COINS. {3}
FURTHER FINDS INCLUDE A DUPONDIUS OF VESPASIAN (69-79), A ONE PIECE COLCEHSTER-TYPE BROOCH DATING TO MID C1 AD, A CIRCULAR PLATE BROOCH WITH BLACK INLAY, POSSIBLY 2ND CENTURY AD, MUCH GREY WARE, SOME COLOUR-COATED AND SAMIAN. {4}{5}
An Ordnance Survey inspector who visited the site in 1965 reported a scatter of grey, red and coarse ware. {6} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 100 - 399 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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