Rushton No. 1 / Ricsdone / Risetone / Ristone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12542RUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century (?), Early Christian / Anglo-Roman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead tank
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Rushton is located near Kettering -- the Roman villa archaeological site is located 2 km NE of present-day Rushton
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushton,_Northamptonshire
Font Notes:
Edwards et al. (2002) note the discovery in 1999 "of a decorated lead tank buried in the ditch adjacent to the bath-house and sealed by a deposit of roofing tiles. A chi-rho design in raised cable on the lead tank closely parallels the fourth century tank found in 1976 twenty kilometres to the east at Ashton, Northants." 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).

REFERENCES

  • Edwards, Howell G.M., "Romano-British wall-painting fragments: a spectroscopic analysis", 127, The Analyst (The Royal Society of Chemistry), 2002, pp. 277-281; p. 277-278
  • Taylor, Jeremy, "An Archaeological Resource Assessment and Research Agenda for the Roman Period in the East Midlands [draft research agenda]", [2006?]