Stunning Wooden Artefact

As the block was found in a well on a Romano-British farmstead, it is tempting to suggest it was part of the machinery for drawing water. However, it was accompanied by other domestic debris, including complete cooking pots and eating vessels so it may simply have been discarded when the well was no longer of use.

It is the waterlogged conditions that have preserved this spectacular wooden artefact for the last two thousand years and it has been sent off for immediate conservation.