Anglo-Saxon finds from Colchester in Joslin Collection.
The Joslin Collection, assembled in the 19th century and subsequently bought by the Colchester Corporation, consists of objects which almost without exception are recorded as having been found in Colchester but for which few find spots are known. A local archaeologist, Dr Henry Laver, was quoted in 1903 as stating that most of the shield bosses in the Joslin Collection were found in the Mersea Cemetery (VCH 1903, 323). If this was the case, then the same is probably true of most of the spearheads, ferrules, and complete pots since they are all types of finds associated with cemeteries. <1><2>