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A Roman Child Burial with Animal Figurines and Pottery, from Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire

A Roman Child Burial with Animal Figurines and Pottery, from Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. Alison Taylor writes: Cremated remains of a young child dating to the mid-second century A.D. were found in a samian jar in Godmanchester accompanied by three pots, two bangles, bronze and gold box-fittings, and pipe-clay figurines of a bull and a horse. This is the second discovery of a child's burial with clay figures from Cambridgeshire, the first being from Arrington. The site lies in a private garden in the centre of Roman Godmanchester and was found accidentally by the owner, Mr G. Reeve, while he was digging garage foundations in 1991, but it was not reported until publication of the Arrington figures alerted him and his evening-class teacher, Susan Oosthuizen, to the importance of his discovery. Other finds noted in flower beds throughout the garden include quantities of Roman pottery dating to the third and fourth centuries, animal bone (including dog), and shellfish including oysters and winkles. These are all assumed to derive from later occupation of the town. A colour photograph taken by Mrs Reeve while the finds were in the ground shows the samian vessel was flanked by two figurines with three other pots emerging nearby in a round pit 0.4-0.5 m in diameter at a depth of just over one metre below ground level. The pit is sealed below later Roman deposits.