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

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cinerary Urn.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old label adhered reads "Girton College restored September 7th 1895". [transcribed by J. Somerville 14/5/2001]
Event Date 7/9/1895
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: 'Actually completely plain. Most of the pot intact, restoration mostly around the rim.'
Event Date 14/5/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with flat base and short upright rim. Undecorated with mottled orange/brown surface colouring. Upper body and rim 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 1896.426. It instead refers to the Annual Report number, AR 1897.426. 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 second of a group of fifteen cinerary urns in the Annual Report from 'Cambridge, Girton and Barrington'. The label found affixed to 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 and '?Cambridge Antiquarian Society' has been removed.
Event Date 4/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)