Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card has the following entry: "From the neighbourhood of Cambridge. Restored"
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cinerary Urn. Restored.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old label inside reads "Girton College restored Tuesday July 20th 1897" [transcribed by J.Somerville 14/5/2001']
Event Date 20/7/1897
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O’Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Event Date 1925
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville: 'Fairly rudimentary pot, not wheelmade, decorated with incised lines and crude stamped designs. Restoration includes much infill.'
Event Date 14/5/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with high neck and rim and slightly flat base. Decorated around the neck with parallel horizontal grooves and two lines of circular stab marks, possibly comb impressions. Below this is a band of vertical indentations and two further sets of two rows of circular stab marks bound between horizontal grooves. Across the shoulder are standing triangles filled with stamps and decorated on either side with vertical groves. Reconstructed from infill.
Event Date 3/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Amendments / updates)
This accession number does not tally with the object described in the Accession Register as 1897.174, which is why its suffix was /Record 2. It instead refers to the Annual Report number, AR 1897.174 and the accession number field has been modified accordingly. An Accession Register entry for this object has not been identified, and may not exist.
Event Date 4/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object has suffered from not having an Accession Register entry. It was entered as the first of a group of six cinerary urns in the Annual Report from 'the neighbourhood of Cambridge'. The label found inside the urn giving this site as Girton was presumably used to identify which site in Cambridge. Restored Anglo Saxon urns from the Cambridge region were listed in the 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1899 Annual Reports, and it is quite possible that they had in the museum and awaiting restoration for several prior. It is therefore currently unclear whether this urn came from the 1881 or 1886 excavation of Girton College, either of which is possible. AR 1897.175 was definitely excavated in 1881, but that does not necessarily mean that this urn was. All the likely Sources (Anatole von Hügel, Francis Jenkinson and Girton College) have therefore been tentatively included in the Source field.
Event Date 4/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)