Accession No

1951.311


Description

Rim, base and body sherds of imported Gallo Belgic butt beakers and other Gallo Belgic forms. The sherds are red in colour (grey in the fracture). One of the base sherds is perforated. Body sherds are decorated with rouletting in various patterns, including vertical lines, oblique lines, and cross-hatching, bordered by horizontal grooves. Rim sherds have everted, rolled, thickened, rounded, and bevelled forms. Some of the sherds are from the same vessel.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Abington Pigotts; Bellus Hill


Period

Late Iron Age


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; de Courcy Ireland, Montagu George [vendor]; Pigott, William Graham Foster (Reverend) [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1951.311


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: Lizzy Peneycad


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: Lizzy Peneycad


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: Lizzy Peneycad


Context (Production / use)
The card has the following entry: 'These are likely to date from the early part of the 1st century AD and occur at Colchester and Wheathampstead'.
Event Date 1951
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Rim and base sherds of imported Gallo Belgic butt beakers and other Gallo Belgic forms. These sherds are red in colour (grey in the fracture). One of the base sherds is perforated. Ornamented with rouletting in great variety
Event Date 23/2/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Rim, base and body sherds of imported Gallo Belgic butt beakers and other Gallo Belgic forms. The sherds are red in colour (grey in the fracture). One of the base sherds is perforated. Body sherds are decorated with rouletting in various patterns, including vertical lines, oblique lines, and cross-hatching, bordered by horizontal grooves. Rim sherds have everted, rolled, thickened, rounded, and bevelled forms. Some of the sherds are from the same vessel.
Event Date 22/6/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:16006

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