Roman rubbish pit and finds assemblage, 80-82 High Street ('Old Post Office Site'), Braintree (EHER 6303)

A Roman rubbish pit and 1st to 3rd century pottery were found during rebuilding at 80 to 82 High Street in 1845-1848 or in 1895-1896. Coins and an amulet are also reported to have been found.

'Kenworthy collected a quantity of material when 80-82 High Street, now the Trustee Savings Bank, was rebuilt, 1845-1848'. The collection included Antonine plain (f33) and decorated (f37) Samian; two stamped Antonine Samian vessels (a f31 dish and a f38 bowl) and a Flavian stamped Samian dish f18. Coarse pottery was also found. This was mostly 2nd and 3rd century in date with some earlier and later sherds. A rim sherd from a 2nd-3rd century jar in grey ware (Col f277) is in the Passmore Edwards Museum.' Coins and a 'fragment of olive-green ware' noted in the Top. File (Colchester Museum) cannot now be traced'. In source <6> "Kenworthy.. mentions a coin of Commodus" <1> - <6> <10> February 1950. Field survey. Roman remains found below the Old Post Office include a buff (Samian) platter, f38, found in 1896, lower half of a folded beaker found in a Roman refuse pit in 1895, a cylindrical beaker with Roman coins and an amulet, and two fragments of Samian f.33, and f.180. <7> - <11> Roman pottery was also found here in around 1891. <9> Note: The amulet referred to above is probably the bracelet mentioned in EHER 6323. Site Assessment: Accession numbers for finds other than bracelet? Original HER entry merged with NRHE data transfer.