Pottery, vessel, beaker

Small fineware beaker of Lyon colour-coated ware. This was found in an early Roman pit. It was previously thought to have contained four carved gemstones (intaglios) and that the gemstones had been buried in the pot to keep them safe from the Boudican revolt of 60/61 CE. However, recent re-examination of the site archive and its context records has shown that the gemstones were from a separate pit and were not buried within the pot. In the same pit as the pot was a bone die, but again, it was not found inside the pot itself and may have been placed in the pit at a different time.