Accession No
1951.309
Description
Fragments of the bases of at least eleven pots. These include hand made and wheel-made wares. Most are flat with the walls of the pot rising steeply from the base but there is one example of a foot ring.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Abington Pigotts; Bellus Hill
Period
Iron Age
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; de Courcy Ireland, Montagu George [vendor]; Pigott, William Graham Foster (Reverend) [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1951.309
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Iron Age/Roman settlement site found during the course of coprolite extraction, 1879-1894, on land owned by Rev. William G.F. Pigott.
Event Date 1879
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (References)
Pigott, William G. F. (1888). ‘Some account of the site of a Roman Veteran’s holding at Abington Pigotts, in the County of Cambridge’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 6.2. pp. 309-312.
Event Date 1888
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1924). ‘A Settlement of the Early Iron Age at Abington Pigotts, Cambs., and its Subsequent History; as Evidenced by Objects Preserved in the Pigott Collection’. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 4(2). pp. 211-233.
Event Date 1924
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Analysis)
Late1 Century BC-Early 1 Century AD
Event Date 1951
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Fragments of the bases of eleven pots. These include hand made and wheel made wares. Most are flat with the walls of the pot rising steeply from the base but there is one example of a foot ring
Event Date 23/2/1987
Author: maa
FM:16003
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