Icklingham No. 4

INFORMATION

FontID: 07636ICK
Church/Chapel: Early Christian church site
Country Name: England
Location: Suffolk, East Anglia
Directions to Site: Located in NW Suffolk
Font Location in Church: [the lug of this tank was discovered inside another such tank]
Century and Period: 4th century (late), Early Christian
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