Find Spot record MCC1894 - Roman amphora and glass vessels, cutting near North Station, Colchester

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Roman amphora and glass vessels, cutting near North Station, recorded in 1846.

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Grid reference TL 99436 26360 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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William Wires Album records that south of the railway cutting near North Station, 'was found another amphora containing six glass vessels all but one were broken and an earthen lamp'.<1><2>

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  • <1> Unpublished document: Hull, M. Rex. Roman Colchester II: Extramural and Walls. II. fold out traced copy of Wire's map.
  • <2> Monograph: Hull, M.R.. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. p.257, No. 90.

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Jan 24 2017 8:22AM

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