- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of red ware. [MOBB [OPS move] 10/10/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of red ware. Pear or ovoid shape lamp with flat bottom, expanding sides to defined shoulder, vertical, solid handle at the back and covered top. Depressed central section to the top with a mostly obliterated design. All that remains is a cross in relief. The filling hole is within one of the quarter sections created by the cross. [MOBB [OPS move] 10/10/2016]
- Geographical reference
- England Devon Torquay St Marychurch
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Romano-British
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Decorated, Process Moulded, Process Coiled Handbuilt
- Dimensions
- Length: max 85 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Height: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.50.31 Other numbers: KC 1 [K C 1]
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