Accession No

Z 16195


Description

Pot with high slightly everted rim, high shoulder and flat base. Decorated with at least three horizontal grooves around the neck and two bands of stamps bound on both sides between a horizontal groove. Below are sets of five diagonal grooves creating pendent triangles. Mottled orange/brown surface colouring, possibly heat spalling to lower body. Partially reconstructed from infill, one sherd detached but present.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Girton College, Cambridge [donor]; Jenkinson, Francis John Henry [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 16195


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

205mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
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)
'One sherd broken from rim but present. Incised line and stamp decoration; reconstructed using infill. J. Somerville 8/5/2001'
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Pot with high slightly everted rim, high shoulder and flat base. Decorated with at least three horizontal grooves around the neck and two bands of stamps bound on both sides between a horizontal groove. Below are sets of five diagonal grooves creating pendent triangles. Mottled orange/brown surface colouring, possibly heat spalling to lower body. Partially reconstructed from infill, one sherd detached but present.
Event Date 7/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:9003

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