Icklingham No. 4
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07636ICK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century (late), Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Early Christian church site
Font Location in Church: [the lug of this tank was discovered inside another such tank]
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:
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Described in Petts (2003) as the lug [handle?, ear?] of a baptismal lead tank found inside another such tank in 1971 near the baptistery. Petts (ibid.: 115) dates all the Icklingham tanks and the baptistery to the second hald of the 4th century [cf. Icklingham No, 2 for the lead tank that contained it, and No. 5 for the baptistery; two other such tanks, one of them disappeared, are listed as Nos. 1 and 3]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: fragment
Basin Interior Shape: [fragment]
Basin Exterior Shape: fragment
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