Monument record LMD 036 - Meeting Field

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Summary

Pottery, including samian, mainly C2, fragments of glass, quern, painted wall plaster and bronze perforated disc.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 8604 4534 (50m by 50m)
Map sheet	TL84NE
Civil Parish	LONG MELFORD, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Pottery, including samian, mainly C2, fragments of glass, quern, painted wall plaster and bronze perforated disc.
Coins: Vitellius AD 68 (silver), Trajan AD 98-117, Constantius II AD 350, plus pottery found in 1968, `at a depth of about 18 inches to 24 inches (while digging trench) in the gas main trench which runs under the line of the footway on each side of the estate road' (S2). Retained by (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s). Pits 'Belgic & Rom" (S1).
See also LMD 012 for earlier finds in same area.

Sources/Archives (3)

<S1> SSF50070 Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, cards 969-29; 968-96,97.
<S2> SSF7646 (No record type): Howlett T, `Bulletin No 1 - recent finds', ms, November 1968.
<S3> SSF50042 Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 31, 1969, 323.

Finds (8)

FSF16876: POTTERY (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16877: POTTERY SAMIAN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16878: QUERN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16879: WALL COVERING (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16880: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16881: COIN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF16882: COIN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
FSF33224: WALL PAINTING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)