Monument record MCC1814 - Late Iron Age cremation cemetery, Mersea Road, Colchester

Summary

Late Iron Age Cemetery, near Colchester Cemetery, recorded in 1946.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 00038 23566 (0m by 1m)
Map sheet TM02SW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

Late Iron Age cemetery at Colchester Cemetery, Mersea Road.

A row of native burials found just outside the west wall of the former cemetery when it was extended between Plum Hall and Monkwick Farm.<1> Hull's notes record, 'At intervals, beginning in the summer of 1946, as the graves were dug, purely Belgic ("Late -Celtic") pottery from a small number of Burials was found by grave-diggers at a point just outside the west boundary of the cemetery, and due west of the Nonconformist Mortuary Chapel".<2> Grave Groups 571-4.<3>

Another Belgic burial was also found in the cemetery, described as. 'a Bowl of brown-black Belgic ware, form 212 almost whole; three fragments terra rubra bowl form 56, stamped xan; the most part of a white flagon form 136 in small fragments; the most part of a pipe clay beaker form 114 with herring bone ornament and painted rim and shoulder COLEM1954.350-353. Found in Colchester Town Cemetery about 18/6/1951 and given to A.F. Hall on that date; passed onto museum by him on behalf of the Grammar School' (Hull's Grave Group No615).<4>

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> Monograph: Hull, M.R.. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. p.11 No. 197.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Roman Colchester II: Extramural and Walls. II. The area of the cemetery.
  • <3> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Unknown. Inventory of Grave Groups. No's 571-4.
  • <4> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Unknown. Inventory of Grave Groups. No. 615.

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Oct 9 2017 9:17AM

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