Accession No

Z 16196


Description

Incomplete pot with flat base and wide shoulder. Decorated with at least two horizontal parallel grooves around the neck; followed by three vertical grooves with clusters of stamp on ether side, this pattern is repeated around the shoulder. Multiple long vertical bosses below shoulder. Area of lower body and rim completely missing, 23 sherds 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 16196


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

235mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Note in Cyril Fox's hand reads: 'Girton (Cowles)'. Other, almost identical notes are dated 1920 (see Z 29677).
Event Date
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 (CMS Description)
A pot containing sherds.
'Large pot, partly reconstructed decorated with 7 shoulder bosses and stamped and incised lines. Also 22 sherds. J. Somerville 8/5/2001'
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Incomplete pot with flat base and wide shoulder. Decorated with at least two horizontal parallel grooves around the neck; followed by three vertical grooves with clusters of stamp on ether side, this pattern is repeated around the shoulder. Multiple long vertical bosses below shoulder. Area of lower body and rim completely missing, 23 sherds detached but present.
Event Date 7/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:9004

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