Accession No
Z 16210.1
Description
Incomplete shouldered pot with missing rim and flat base. Short bosses in groups of three around shoulder. Five parallel grooved lines around base of neck; triple-lined chevrons above shoulder filled with stamps. Each boss is decorated with grooved lines; standing arches between each group of bosses. One stamp used. Now in 27 sherds.
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 16210.1; T.S. 31
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16210[.1-2]: 'Pot; sherd'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
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: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Tabitha Cotterill description for Z 16210[.1-2]: '31 sherds, including one separate group of four (one rim sherd and two decorated). The remaining 27 may come from more than one pot. Some of the larger sherds are made up of smaller sherds glued back together. Bosses and stamped decoration on some of the 27'.
Event Date 9/5/2001
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Incomplete shouldered pot with missing rim and flat base. Short bosses in groups of three around shoulder. Five parallel grooved lines around base of neck; triple-lined chevrons above shoulder filled with stamps. Each boss is decorated with grooved lines; standing arches between each group of bosses. One stamp used. Now in 27 sherds.
Event Date 7/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:9019
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