Accession No

TEMP.03841.5


Description

Slag. Greyish-white clinkery fragments with more or less grey and black opaque glassy areas, vesicular with white calcareous and 'cracked flint' inclusions. Calcareous sandstone fragments or similar, exposed to fire. Probably fused tesserae.


Place

Europe; Northern Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; [Huntingdonshire]; Great Staughton


Period

Roman


Source

Greenfield, Ernest [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

TEMP.03841.5


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Sandstone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Acquisition Details)
Material from the 1958-1959 excavations was donated to the museum in 1975. A note in the accession register indicates that some of that material left the museum and was 'returned by D of E after preparation for publication in 1985'. This material appears to have been separated from the rest of the collection for analysis and specialist reports before it was donated to the museum, it was likely later given to the museum (possibly in 2007) to join the rest of the collection.
Event Date
Author: Lily Pencliffe


Context (Field collection)
Roman villa and bath house excavated by Ernest Greenfield 1958-1959. Room 4, L3. SL11. RF 435. Small finds number: 59 (possibly 39).
Event Date 1958
Author: Lily Pencliffe


Context (References)
Greenfield, E., Poulsen, J., and Irving, P. V., 1995. 'The Excavation of a Fourth-century AD Villa and Bath-House at Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire, 1958 and 1959', Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 83. pp.124-125.
Event Date 1995
Author: Lily Pencliffe


Description (Physical description)
Description from specialist report by L. Biek and P. R. Payne: 'Slag. Greyish-white clinkery fragments with more or less grey and black opaque glassy areas, vesicular with white calcareous and 'cracked flint' inclusions. Calcareous sandstone fragments or similar, exposed to fire. Probably fused tesserae.'
Event Date 15/8/2025
Author: Lily Pencliffe


Context (Related Documents)
See GO3/1/28.
Event Date 15/8/2025
Author: Lily Pencliffe


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