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CHER Number:00808
Type of record:Monument
Name:Iron Age/Roman pottery and brooch, Blacklands, Alconbury Hill

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 183 775
Parish:Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

Associated Finds:

  • PENANNULAR BROOCH (Early Iron Age to 5th century Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
  • SHERD (Late Iron Age to 5th century Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)

Associated Events:

  • Excavation at Alconbury Hill, 1938-1939

Full description

Ro pit 2,25m deep. Pottery from Iron Age 'C' to Castor ware of C1 to C4. In the material excavated from a rubbish pit was a penannular brooch, lozenge sectioned, 36mm diameter. See also RN 00806, 00806a


Garrood, J.R., 1947, Romano-British Settlements at Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire. TCHAS 6: 203-8, Illus fig 12 (Article in serial). SCB14457.

Sources and further reading

<R1>Article in serial: Garrood, J.R.. 1947. Romano-British Settlements at Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire. TCHAS 6: 203-8. Illus fig 12.