Prehistoric — Iron Age; 700 BC – 50 AD
Jar
Ceramic jar, found during the 1944 excavation of an earthen enclosure known as Caesar’s Camp at Heathrow. The enclosure was found to contain 11 Iron Age roundhouses and a small rectangular shrine or temple. It was the first site of its type to have been totally excavated. The name ‘Caesar’s Camp’ is an 18th-century invention. Early maps refer to it as Shasbury Hill, which may derive from the old English sceaceres byrig, meaning ‘robber’s fort’. The site now lies beneath the eastern end of the main northern runway at Heathrow Airport.
- Category:
- Prehistoric
- Object ID:
- 74.284/56
- Object name:
- jar
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- Production date:
- Iron Age; 700 BC – 50 AD
- Material:
- ceramic
- Measurements/duration:
- H 169 mm, DM (base) 95 mm, DM (rim) 184 mm, H 169 mm, DM (base) 97 mm, DM (rim) 187 mm (overall)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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