Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card: 'Both were probably imported and not made locally' and 'This seems to be of the type modified from Haltern 85 and compare at Colchester with form 112 with a range there I-IV 10-61 A.D. In form this is closer to the native white ware butt beaker 113'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found in a Belgic chieftain's grave when laying a drain. Excavated by Thomas Lethbridge on 17 May 1952. Grid reference TL 52/645674.
Event Date 17/5/1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Of smokey grey colour externally shading to buff in parts, and buff in parts and buff inside. Hollow neck. Two raised cordons defining two zones of rouletted ornament. Sharp rimmed and uncurved above the foot. Restored. Gallo Belgic.
Event Date 1953
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1954). 'Burial of an Iron Age Warrior at Snailwell'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 47. pp 25-37.
Event Date 1954
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Stead, I.M. (1967). ‘A La Tène III Burial at Welwyn Garden City’. Archaeologia, vol. 101. pp. 1-61.
Event Date 1967
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Analysis)
Previously dated as Iron Age C.
Event Date 10/6/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Butt beaker of smokey grey colour externally shading to buff in parts. It has an everted rim and a flat base that has a slight rim around the edge. There are two raised cordons defining two areas of rouletted decoration around the midsection. Gallo Belgic. Reconstructed from sherds and infill.
Event Date 17/6/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5594 | Remedial
Event Date 7/2/2023
Author: Kirstie French

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn