Oil lamp
This oil lamp was excavated from a Roman cremation burial on a road leading from the fortress at Exeter. Oil lamps are very uncommon from Devon, and this metal lamp would have been a prized possession.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 853/1989/105
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- oil lamp
- Simple Name
- lamp
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
- Production Year Low
- 75
- Production Year High
- 80
