Belgic or Roman bowl, Sandon Gravel Pit (EHER 5578)

Bowl, f221, found here and could be Belgic or Roman.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Bowl, f221, found here and could be Belgic or Roman. In Chelmsford Museum. Also, a jar of f260, stood upright in the ground, it had five round holes in the base. "These or other finds were mentioned in a report of 1906, which stated that two 'early Roman' cinerary urns, and the bones they contained, had been found in a gravel pit and would be "preserved by the Mayor of Chelmsford" <1>-<6> Finds from this area mostly found by Mrs D Slaughter, these may also have been. Note: Mrs D Slaughter generally made finds in 1945 - this would contradict the idea that these finds may have been made in 1906 as detailed above. OS field officer walked the area but no important finds were made. SMR gives NGR as TL 74050590. Sandon Gravel Pit centred TL 750043, now covers 1.3km east-west and 0.6 north-south and is still being worked. The indicated find site of the pottery could not be confirmed. It falls well outside the present workings on cultivated land which does not seem to have been worked for gravel in the past. <7> Site Assessment: Accession numbers?