Monument record IKL 025 - Stone Pit Hill; Town Pit; Rampart Field; Lackford Hills (Rom)

Probable location of "the most important of... the burial places" ... "overlooking the Icknield Street" (S1). Largely finds from C19 gravel digging.
1851: A large fine urn found in a sand pit "whence many skeletons have at different times been exhumed", presented by R Gwilt (S2) - ? in BSEMH in 1911 (S4). (Note Rom cemetery with stone coffin, IKL 017, also owned by Gwilt.) Also listed as in BSEMH "from a Romano- British cemetery at Stone Pit Hill" are "a bronze knife handle (Acton collection), ... a bow-shaped silver fibula, a gilt fibula, damascened with silver found with glass vessels... and five different bronze armillae" (bracelets)(Acton collection)(S4). Also in the Acton collection is an enamelled circular bronze seal box (S5). Some of these may be duplicated in the Warren journal.
1858 - June 1860: Objects listed by Warren as found "in raising stone from the high ground half a mile before you enter the village (Icklingham) from Bury on the right hand. Have heard it called the Lackford Hills". Includes colour coated beakers, "cruciform fibula", bronze bracelets, bronze & silver box lock and fittings, 2 coins of Magnentius & 2 Constantius II (Fel Temp) and an Urbs Roma, glass beads and bracelet, 2 incomplete glass vessels, large cruciform fibula, silver ring and small silver penannular brooch (S3). Possibly partially the same as items exhibited at Ipswich Congress of British Archaeological Association - 2 silver rings, 1 silver fibula, 10 bronze fibula, 5 bronze bracelets, 1 glass bracelet & 1 string beads (S4)(R1). Also see CRN 10402 (Misc Rom) which lists other items from Icklingham in BSEMH, which may also come from this cemetery.
Also Pal.