Iron Age vessels from near Southminster (EHER 81179)

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Five Iron Age pottery vessels.

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Grid reference	Centred TQ 95 99 (20m by 20m) Location provided by NRHE data transfer.
Civil Parish	SOUTHMINSTER, MALDON, ESSEX

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Description

NRHE data transfer: A group of at least five pottery vessels probably from a single grave-group, although the circumstances of the discovery in around 1900 are unrecorded. These comprise a globular bowl; curved-sided jar; narrow-mouthed globular jar; cordonned jar; wide-mouthed cordonned jar containing calcined bone. <1> See also <2>.

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<1> SEX54357 Monograph: Whimster, R.. 1981. BAR 90 - Burial practices in Iron Age Britain: a discussion and gazetteer of the evidence c 700 BC- AD 43. p.369.
<2> SEX76393 Serial: Prehistoric Society. 1965. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Vol. 31. p.253, 308 illust.

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NRHE identifier: 925277
National Monuments Record: TQ 99 NE 27

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