Caistor No. 1 / Castor

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12540CAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century (?), Early Christian / Anglo-Roman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 20 km SW of Grimsby
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caistor
Font Notes:
Listed in Taylor ([2006?]) in a group of Roman decorated tanks discovered in the East Midlands (Walesby, Bishop Norton, Caistor, Brough, Thorpe by Newark and Rushton).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead?

REFERENCES

  • Taylor, Jeremy, "An Archaeological Resource Assessment and Research Agenda for the Roman Period in the East Midlands [draft research agenda]", [2006?]