Roman burial urns at High Fields (EHER 13870)

Roman pottery and cremations of 1st and 2nd century date were found here in 1935 and 1936.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Roman burial urns found between 1935 and 1936, now in Colchester Museum. <1> Roman pottery found in laying out new housing estate. It includes the most part of a Samian bowl, form 31, stamp illegible and glaze gone. The lower halves of two grey urns which contained bones. Fragments of pottery, including two native rims of very large store vessels, similar to those found at Shoebury, Colchester and Braintree, and another of Roman fabric, rim of a grey-black bowl of 1st century date and a platter of 2nd century date. Also a fragment of box-flue tile. Given by Mr T.E. Harris (COLEM 192.36). <2> February 1950. Field visit. The approximate site of the finds were pointed out to me by Mr J. Harris - the brother of the donor of the pottery who has now left the district. The finds were made in a gravel pit behind the house built by Messrs Harris and Mr Harris is quite sure that no Roman finds were made during the making of the housing estate. It would seem that Colchester Museum, knowing Mr Harris was a builder, assumed the finds came from the estate. <3> <4> See also: <5> <6>