Accession No

Z 16228


Description

Globular pot with high neck and obtuse-angled, flat base. Decorated below neck with three parallel grooves, then three-lined pendant triangles. Eight sherds detached but present. partially reconstructed; rim missing, sections of body and base missing.


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 16228


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

200mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Hand written label adhered to pot reads: 'Girton College Grave no.5'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins


Context (Field collection)
Grave 5.
Event Date 1881
Author: maa


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)
Kate Sutton: 'The majority of one pot present which is composed of many sherds that have been glued back together. 7 loose sherds are also present. Grooved decoration.'
Event Date 9/5/2001
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with high neck and obtuse-angled, flat base. Decorated below neck with three parallel grooves, then three-lined pendant triangles. Eight sherds detached but present. partially reconstructed; rim missing, sections of body and base missing.
Event Date 25/11/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins


FM:9066

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