Context (CMS Context)
The catalogue card reads: 'Excavated from garden of Croft Lodge, Newnham, (site now covered by 3 blocks of flats, next to livery stables at 27 Barton Rd.). Bought with 36.388 - [1936.366] from Mrs Wyatt. The garden of Croft Lodge (now partly occupied by flats) is known as the site of a pagan Anglo Saxon cemetery, cf. Cyril Fox, 1923, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, p. 244. A grave-group from the cemetery is already in the museum, with several isolated objects. Skeletons which probably belong to the same cemetery have been found at various times in the garden of 24, Barton Road, (on the opposite side of the road to Croft Lodge). cf. Proc. C.A.S. Vol. xxxv, p.xxix'
Event Date 4/9/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Roughly made handmade pot, neck and part of side missing, gritty black paste with reddish surface; flattened ovoid shape (i.e.lacking the usual marked bulge); decorated with cross-in-circle stamps, roughly made, arranged in irregular triangular panels, apex upward, between parallel vertical grooves.

Event Date 4/9/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'All the rim and part of the body missing. The rest has been glued back together'.
Event Date 27/4/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (CMS Context)
Mrs. Laurie Wyatt offered this group of artefacts (1936.357-1936.366) for sale to Louis Clarke in a letter dated 7 March 1936 (in correspondence file in archive), which was suggested to her by the British Museum. She wrote to Clarke that she believed 1936.358-1936.366 to be 'a complete "Grave Set" found at Cambridge'. She also mentions 'a cooking pot (broken) which was found at the same time', surely 1936.357, which implies that she at least believed that it did not come from the same grave. Clarke responded on 9 March 1936 to say that the museum would indeed like to purchase the grave group and asks for more information about where in Cambridge it was found. She responded on 19 March 1936 to acknowledge the receipt, confirm that the artefacts have been sent and to say that they were found at Barton Road: 'The site in Barton Road now has three blocks of new flats with bright green roofs built over it.'
Event Date 18/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Related Documents)
Old label accompanies pot, reads: "Pottery found with Saxon fibula. Iron ring + skeleton.[crossed out] Barton. Date about 550 AD. See A.R. 1910. Croft Lodge. Newnham". (transcribed by Sarah-Jane Harknett 27/4/2001) [see Z 21335]
Event Date 18/6/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Shouldered urn with flat base; reconstructed. Below neck are two horizontal grooves, along shoulder is a sequence of vertical or horizontal grooves and vertical bands of stamp; one stamp used. Damaged; rim and part of body missing, three sherds detached but present.
Event Date 13/5/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt