Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label adhered to interior of urn reads: 'Girton College'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: "One of three pots (a-c). Restored in the museum"
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Annual Report (1899.384 A-C): 'Three urns.'
Event Date 1900
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: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Tabitha Cotterill: 'Pot. Decorated with bosses and incised lines, heavily reconstructed with infill'.
Event Date 9/5/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Globular urn with everted rim and rounded base. Decorated below neck with band of chevrons, each filled with a stamp, possibly bounded by two horizontal grooves. Extending over shoulder are seven vertical bosses bounded by two vertical grooves. At least one stamp type present. Reconstructed from sherds and cork infill; the majority of neck and rim are infill.
Event Date 26/11/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Cinerary urn decorated with bosses and incised lines. Heavily reconstructed with infill.
Event Date 5/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
This accession number does not tally with the object described in the Accession Register as 1899.384 A. It instead refers to the Annual Report number, AR 1899.384 A 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 5/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object has suffered from not having an Accession Register entry. 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 5/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)