Site Event/Activity record ECC1172 - Anglo-Saxon Cremation Pot, Meanee Barracks, Mersea Road, Colchester, 1938

Location

Location Meanee Barracks, Mersea Road, Colchester
Grid reference TL 99949 24515 (point)
Map sheet TL92SE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Unknown

Date

1938

Map

Description

Almost complete hand made cinerary urn 'of Iron Age A or Saxon date' coarse brown ware, containing a few burnt bones. Found when sinking a water-tank 24/3/1938 in the north-west corner of Meanee Barracks, 15 yards from north and 14 yards from west boundary of the yard. A note in the accession register states ' It is not now clear whether these measurements were (or could) be taken from the outer boundary of the property, perhaps more probably from the inner face of the surrounding buildings'.<1><2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> LIST: Colchester Museums. 1941-1961. Colchester Museum Accession Register 1941-1961. COLEM 1951.55.
  • <2> Monograph: Crummy, Philip. 1981. CAR 1: Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Colchester. 1. p14.

Related Monuments/Buildings (3)

  • Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Mersea Road, Colchester (Monument)
  • Anglo-Saxon cremation Urn, Meanee Barracks, Colchester (Find Spot)
  • Urn, Meanee Barracks (Element)

Record last edited

Feb 11 2016 7:47PM

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