Icklingham No. 5

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07625ICK
Object Type: Baptistery?
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century (late), Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian church site
Font Location in Church: Located 10 m. to the E of the ancient excavated church
Site Location: Suffolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in NW Suffolk
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icklingham
Font Notes:
Described in Petts (2003) as a "tile-built baptistery or font base" found 10 m. to the East of the possible Christian church known as "Building B" of this site; Petts reports "the presence of at least four lead tanks from the immediate area, of which three had chi-rho inscriptions". Petts (ibid.) dates all the Icklingham tanks and the baptistery to the second half of the 4th century. [cf. Index entries Icklingham Nos. 1-4 for the four lead tanks found at this site]

REFERENCES

  • Petts, David, "Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain", The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, York: York Medieval Press, 2003, p. 113, 115