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Interpretation

    • Fragment of stone lamp. Only around 20% of the lamp surviving (based on circumference). Carbon deposits surviving on interior surface. Good parallels known from the Anglo-Saxon monastery at Hartlepool (Daniels 2007, 130; McGarry 1991). H.130mm; internal depth 80mm. Daniels, R. 2007. Anglo-Saxon Hartlepool and the foundations of English Christianity: An Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Monastery Tees Archaeology Monograph Series 3 McGarry, M.A. 1991. A study of Anglo-Saxon stone working with special reference to finds from Church Close, Hartlepool, Cleveland Unpubl. MA dissertation, University of Durham
      • David Petts
    • 3-5-2017

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  • Context: LDF_2004
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    • Fill of linear feature [2005]
    • Charles Cowper
    • 19-6-2016
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