Context (Field collection)
Found by Mr A.J. Rank of Bottisham, near Wilbraham Temple; see original card for sketch-map. Donated by Mrs B.C. Hyde-Smith, Wilbraham Temple
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
The cutting seems to have been done with an axe. Other attempts at cutting (after the axe had broken?) were made by heating the tank and hitting it with a blunt instrument, not with any great success.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Pieces of a lead tank, including one section of the side with decoration of raised lines and circles; a lug-handle; and parts of the bottom, cut into segments
Event Date 1980
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Other)
Catalogue card notes that the best complete example of such a tank in the Museum is D 1977.13, from Burwell.
Event Date 1980
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Guy, Christopher J. (1981). 'Roman circular lead tanks in Britain'. Britannia, 12. pp 271-276.
Event Date 1981
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Watts, Dorothy J. (1988). 'Circular Lead Tanks and Their Significance for Romano-British Christianity'. The Antiquaries Journal, 68(2). pp. 210-222, Fig. 3e
Event Date 1988
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
A large rectangular piece of a lead tank decorated with raised circles and zig-zag pattern and banding close to the rim.
Event Date 20/9/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson