Heathrow
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07645HEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Font Notes:
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Reported in Petts (2003: 111) as a baptismal lead tank "located in the top of a waterhole, in an area with a long tradition of ritual deposition in such contexts from the late Bronze Age".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: round?
Basin Interior Shape: round?
Basin Exterior Shape: round?
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. 111