Accession No
1900.484
Description
Urn with a low shoulder and flat base. Neck is decorated with pendant triangles filled with stamps framed with grooves. Long bosses around the shoulder interspersed with vertical grooves and rows of stamps; one stamp design present. Incomplete; one large sherd and three smaller sherds.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Madingley Road
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; Freeman, Samuel J. [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1900.484; MAA: AR 1901.165; 13
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Typed paper label affixed to object, reads: '13'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'A portion of a decorated 'melon-shaped' cinerary urn.'
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 63
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Meaney, Audrey. (1964). A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. p. 63
Event Date 1964
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Melon-shaped.
'Two loose sherds present. S-J Harknett 27/4/2001'
Event Date 3/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Urn with a low shoulder and flat base. Neck is decorated with pendant triangles filled with stamps framed with grooves. Long bosses around the shoulder interspersed with vertical grooves and rows of stamps; one stamp design present. Incomplete; one large sherd and three smaller sherds.
Event Date 11/12/2020
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:8905
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