Lidded lead container (urn associated with cremation burial). Plain cylindrical form with simple folded-over lid.

The vessel is undecorated although there are numerous tooling (hammer) marks around the lid and base. The lid, is close-fitting and the tooling suggests this was fashioned in situ over the body of the container. The exterior of the container is well finished, the joins to the body and base well disguised.

A brazed vertical seam and the roughly finished base visible to the interior indicate that that the body of the container was made from a sheet of lead folded under and joined (brazed) to a separate, disc-like base.

The urn contained the cremated remains of an adult human, possibly a mature male. The use of such lead urns appears to be a mainly first or earlier second-century phenomenon, with the majority known from large urban centres and military sites.