Accession No
1948.1457
Description
Cauldron: iron handle. Thin sheet bronze, rounded base. Oval mouth. 2 triangular projections from rim flange on broadest axes have held handle. Very blackened outside. Leg bones of ox and horse across the mouth. Found with a complete bone comb inside
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1457
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone; Metal; Bronze; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Cauldron: iron handle. Thin sheet bronze, rounded base. Oval mouth. 2 triangular projections from rim flange on broadest axes have held handle. Very blackened outside. Leg bones of ox and horse across the mouth.
Found with a complete bone comb inside.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Found 28 October 1851. Contained a cremation. ?Late 6 Century AD - 7 Century AD.
Event Date 28/10/1851
Author: maa
Context (References)
Ref. Plate: XVI [? in Braybrooke, R.C. Neville, Saxon obsequies (London: J. Murray, 1852)]
Event Date 1852
Author: Lucie Carreau
FM:15861
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