Spong Hill, urn

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Spong Hill, urn

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Sigla	PreOE-GB-77 \| TF 981 195
Findspot	Spong Hill (North Elmham, Norfolk, Mercia, GB)
Transliteration	alu
Translation	?Bier/?Ekstase/?Abwehr(zauber)
Translation	?ale/?ecstasy/?magic

A I

Details on sequences and signs

Class of object	other object
Type of object	container
Object	urn
Measurements	Ø25,3; 21,2; -; -
Find year	1972-1975

Class of material	pottery/clay
Material	pottery
Material specifics	-
Preservation	impaired; fragmented
Completeness	no

External dating	450 - 550
Method of dating	arch.
Iconographic elements	yes
Dating (ICO style)	-
Context	burial

Rune row	pre-fuþorc
Category	run.

Preservation	good
Completeness	yes

Titel	Author	Year
The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Part I: Catalogue of Cremations, Nos. 20–64 and 1000–1690	Hills, Catherine	1974
The Archaeological Context of Runic Finds	Hills, Catherine	1991
Spong Hill Part IX: Chronology and Synthesis	Hills, Catherine and Lucy, Sam	2013
Practical Runic Literacy in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Inscriptions on Lead Sheet	Hines, John	2019
Runes: Around the North Sea and On the Continent AD 150-700, Texts and Contexts	Looijenga, Tineke	1997
On the Transliteration of the A-rune in Early English and Frisian Inscriptions	Odenstedt, Bengt	1991
Recasting the Runes, The Reform of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc	Parsons, David	1999
alu on the Spong Hill Urn: an Attestation of the Scandinavian Trait in Pre-Old English?	Waxenberger, Gaby	2018

Interpretations (2)

Picture of find

Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Photographer: unbekannt/unknown
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Place of storage

Norwich Castle Museum (Norfolk, GB)

Inventory number: NCM 1994.192

(Details about place of storage)

Findno.: 671

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