Element record MCC2720 - Bronze Age pit (containing Cauldron), Sheepen, Colchester

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Bronze Age pit, which contained the Sheepen Cauldron, recorded during excavations in 1932.

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Grid reference TL 9854 2547 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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At Sheepen during the 1932 excavation a bronze cauldron was recovered, lying on its side in an oval pit measuring 5ft 6" long by 4ft across. 3ft deep, backfilled with loose gravel (Hawkes & Smith, 1957, 161, Plate XXIc).<1>

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  • <1> Article in serial: 1957. Bronze and Early Iron Age Buckets etc.. Vol. XXVII. 161.

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Feb 6 2017 1:26PM

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