Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds

Fig 82 Factory and open lamps, and others (1:2)
2108 Fig 82 SF LWC 4107, J920. Make-up. Period 3. The major
part of an open lamp, Loeschcke Type 12. Moulded. Buff
clay, fired to orange and yellow in places. Possibly locally
made.
'Rosette' lamps (Fig 83; 2109-2111). Three very
similar lamps, two almost certainly from the same
mould, were found in the layer of make-up, dated to c
320-40, on which the ?martyrium at Butt Road
(Crummy 1980, 264-6) was built. The lamps are of a
distinctive design, for which no parallel outside
Colchester has been traced so far. The Pollexfen
Collection in the Colchester and Essex Museum
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contains a parallel (PC 117), possibly from the same
mould, for the small lamp, 2111. The type is
distinguished by its round body, with a broad shoulder
decorated with radiating grooves giving a rosette
effect. The base has a pattern of three thick
concentric rings round a central dot. On the two
larger examples the handle springs from the shoulder
and belongs principally to the upper half of the mould,
whereas on the smaller lamp the handle projects
outwards from shoulder and wall, running right down
to the base, and is a major feature of both halves of
the mould. There is a herring-bone design both on the