Iron coulter

Details

• Title

  Iron coulter

• Associated people

  Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere (1916 - 2015) (excavator)

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › South Oxfordshire District › Dorchester-on-Thames › Dorchester-on-Thames (from the 1962 ironwork hoard) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Late Roman Period (Britain) (AD 201 - 410)

• Material and technique

  iron

• Material index

  processed material › metal › iron

• Object type

  agriculture/subsistence › agricultural equipment › agricultural tool/implement › plough › coulter

• Dimensions

  68 cm (length)
  2.4 x 0.9 cm Blade (length x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by the Dorchester Excavation Committee, from excavations by Prof. S.S. Frere in 1962.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1967.1240

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