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VESSEL
Unique ID: IARCH-2BE861
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Container for the fourth century Freston hoard IARCH-F86BFD.
Robertson 2000, 295-296 no. 1240 writes:
"Subsequent examination of the site by the writers showed that the hoard had been placed in a large pot sealed by a smaller one. No other evidence of Roman occupation could be seen in the vicinity and none has been reported from Freston..
The pots in which the hoard was concealed had been broken and scattered in the plough-soil, but they were capable of reconstruction. The larger pot (Fig. 1) is slate grey with scribbled zigzag decoration on the shoulder, and three burnished bands below and one above. The inside, and especially the bottom three inches, is heavily encrusted with bronze corrosion. The rim is missing, destroyed by previous ploughings, but one fragment which has survived indicated that the opening was about 6½ inches in diameter."
Notes:
This record is for an object associated with a coin hoard and was imported from an external project database. It may therefore lack the usual level of detail and images.This find is a hoard container.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Ipwsich Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st April 1959 - Thursday 30th April 1959
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