Prestwick Carr, Roman bronze vessels

Prestwick Carr, Roman bronze vessels

HER Number
1324
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Prestwick Carr, Roman bronze vessels
Place
Prestwick Carr
Map Sheet
NZ17SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Cooking Vessel
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1890 13 bronze vessels and a possible handle were ploughed up on Prestwick Carr 350 yards north of Prestwick Whins Farm. This camp kitchen set contained a cauldron, 4 bowls, one basin and 7 saucepans. Though battered and patched, the names of two makers and three owners survived on 4 of the vessels. Of the 13, 7 were donated to the Society of Antiquaries by the landowner, Charles Loraine Bell of Woolsington. The cauldron disappeared before the publication of the group in volume XIII of the Northumberland County History (1926) and the other 5 pieces subsequently also vanished.
Easting
418900
Northing
573400
Grid Reference
NZ418900573400
Sources
<< HER 1324 >> T. Hodgkin, 1892, Discovery of Roman Bronze vessels at Prestwick Carr, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XV, 159-161
R.C. Hedley, 1923, Notes on Prestwick Carr, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, X, 186-187
M.H. Dodds, 1926, Prestwick Carr hoard, Northumberland County History, XII, 41-50