Accession No
1953.11 A.1
Description
Large wine amphora of pink-buff clay, with a rounded, elongated body that tapers to a point at the base. Above the shoulder is a long, narrow neck with an everted rim, with two handles, one on either side, decorated with shallow vertical grooving. Type - Haltern 70. Gallo Belgic.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Snailwell
Period
Late Iron Age early Roman
Source
Newmarket Rural District Council [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1953.11 A.1; 1 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
270mm x 330mm x 820mm Weight 12.0kg
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found in a Belgic chieftain's grave when laying a drain. Excavated by Thomas Lethbridge on 17 May 1952. Grid reference TL 52/645674.
Event Date 17/5/1952
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Physical description)
Sausage-shaped with short neck and handles with centre groove and everted rim; abruptly pointed end. Type - Haltern 70. Compare Camulodunum pl. lxxi, form 185a. Range at Colchester I-VI (10-68 AD.) Usually pre-Claudian. Pinkish-buff ware.
Event Date 1953
Author: maa
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card: 'The material seems to date just pre-Conquest, c. 40 AD. Compare Camulodunum Pl LXXI Form 185A. Range at Colchester I-IV. (10-68 AD). Usually pre Claudian'.
Event Date 1953
Author: maa
Context (References)
Lethbridge T.C. (1954). 'Burial of an Iron Age Warrior at Snailwell', Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 47. pp. 25-37.
Event Date 1954
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Stead, I.M. (1967). ‘A La Tène III Burial at Welwyn Garden City’. Archaeologia, vol. 101. pp. 1-61
Event Date 1967
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Sausage-shaped amphora with short neck and handles with centre groove and everted rim, abruptly pointed end. Type: Haltern 70. Gallo Belgic.
Event Date 13/2/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Physical description)
Large wine amphora of pink-buff clay, with a rounded, elongated body that tapers to a point at the base. Above the shoulder is a long, narrow neck with an everted rim, with two handles, one on either side, decorated with shallow vertical grooving. Type - Haltern 70. Gallo Belgic.
Event Date 21/6/2022
Author: Louise Puckett
Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5618 | Remedial
Event Date 6/3/2023
Author: Kirstie French
Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn
FM:13419
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