Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten notes in blue ballpoint pen found with objects read: 'Saxo-Norman St. Neot's ware type.' and 'Saxo-Norman similar to Thetford.'
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Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note in pencil found with objects reads: 'From the river Barrington Dredged during 1939-45 war.'
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Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Thetford Ware; St Neots Ware.
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Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Field collection)
Dredged from River Rhee at Ivy Cottage. Collected during 1939-1945 War [or perhaps as late as 1946, see note].
Event Date 1939
Author: maa

Context (References)
Hurst, J. G. (1956). 'Saxo-Norman Pottery in East Anglia.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 49. p. 58
Event Date 1956
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
All rim sherds, three decorated.
Event Date 22/8/2001
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
These sherds (Z 27228 A-H) are likely to be the ones briefly listed by J.G. Hurst in 1956 as being collected by Mr Coleman 'from dredging at the foot of the hill on the Foxton-Barrington Road' in 1946 (p. 58). More information was included in their catalogue records, specifically that they were dredged from the River Rhee at Ivy Cottage. The record also gives the collection date as during WWII, rather than 1946, but this latter may have been the date they came to the Museum or simply slightly later. Hurst also mentions a bronze bowl, possibly Z 16087, and scramasaxes which have not yet been identified and may have been confused with those excavated from Edix Hill and Hooper's Field. A clunch bowl (Z 11468), not listed by Hurst, also appears to have been found at the same time. Therefore the Source field, which was previously blank, has been updated with Mr Coleman as collector and donor.
Event Date 4/1/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
41 unglazed sherds of grey fabric; 39 of St Neots Ware and two of Thetford Ware. St Neots Ware sherds include 37 rim sherds, one body sherd with applied thumbed strip, and one thick, flat sherd with grooves. Thetford Ware sherds include one small body sherd with applied narrow thumbed strip and one larger body sherd with an applied thumbed impression.
Event Date 8/1/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou