Accession No

AR 1896.425


Description

Pot with high straight neck and rim, wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated around the neck with three irregular horizontal grooves and two rows of stamps bound between a further two sets of irregular horizontal grooves. Followed by two rows of stamps, one types of stamp used. Reconstructed from sherds and infill.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Girton; Girton College


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

?Girton College, Cambridge [donor]; ?von Hügel, Anatole (Baron) [excavator]; ?Jenkinson, Francis John Henry [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

AR 1896.425


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

240mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: "Restored in the museum"

Event Date
Author: maa


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


Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to pot reads: 'Girton College. Restored Tuesday March, 10th 1896.'
Event Date 10/3/1896
Author: Louise Puckett


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: 'Decorated with stamps and incised line in horizontal bands. Restored using infill.'
Event Date 14/5/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Pot with high straight neck and rim, wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated around the neck with three irregular horizontal grooves and two rows of stamps bound between a further two sets of irregular horizontal grooves. Followed by two rows of stamps, one types of stamp used. Reconstructed from sherds and 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 1896.425. It instead refers to the Annual Report number, AR 1897.425. 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 fifteen cinerary urns in the Annual Report from 'Cambridge, Girton and Barrington'. 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. 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)


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