Lamp
Cresset lamps like this were filled with oil with a wick floating in the oil. This lamp was excavated from an early medieval rubbish in the centre of Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/S1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- stoneBeer stone
- Common Name
- lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Saxo Norman (1066-1200)
