Monument record 8577/0/1 - The Islip Hoard (Romano-British)

A hoard of 32 pieces of domestic pewter was found during gravel quarrying in 1985

{1} An important hoard of 32 pieces of Roman domestic pewter was found in the gravel pit in 1985. The hoard is probably of the C4th AD. It was found towards the base of the alluvial clay just above the gravels, where the objects were found close together with some stacked on on top of another. The hoard is among one of the three largest hoards of pewter known from Roman Britain, the others being Icklingham, Suffolk and Appleshaw, Hampshire.
The Islip hoard contains:
22 flat plates some with flanged rims, diameters rabge from 130-510mm.
1 plate or dish 170mm diameter.
1 oval dish containing the outline of a fish in raised beads and a line of raised beads around the rim, legth 220mm
1 flanged bowl with pedestal foot, 190mm in diameter
2 bowls with flanged rim and pedestal foot, 140mm diameter
1 platter with pedestal foot, 120mm in diameter
1 platter with ribbed stem and pedastel and pedestal foot possibly a goblet, 120mm in diameter
1 small bowl or cup with pedastel foot 90mm in diameter
1 small bowl with flanged rim and pedestal foot 90mm in diameter
1 pedestal foot from a vessel broken in antiquity.

<1> Dix B.(ed), 1986-7, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1985-6, 21/154 (checked) (Report). SNN100334.

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Jan 12 2018 10:25AM