A remarkable discovery was made during the excavation a pit: a fully intact bronze lamp featuring six nozzles. The lamp is an extraordinary find, with no known parallels within Roman Britain. Intriguingly it was found in direct proximity to a complete strigil. The deliberate arrangement of the lamp, precisely inverted, along with the strigil within the pit, hints at intentional deposition, suggesting a structured ritual or ceremonial context.
The bronze lamp has a cast body with six spouts or nozzles. A raised filling hole has been soldered to the discus / upperside of the lamp and is open, lacking a lid. The applied cast handle is skeumorphic and can be variously described as having a mixture either a volute leaf-shaped handle or a hummingbird design. An exact parallel for this object is difficult to find although a bronze lamp with four nozzles comes close and a ceramic lamp with seven nozzles is known. It is an exceptional object and almost certainly a first-century AD import to Britain.