Context (Related Documents)
Note with pigs jaw bone reads: 'Food. Jawbone - sheep beneath hand. Grv 13. Pigs jaw bone grv 11. 1956 Ca Arch FC dug again, and established limits of cemet on one side and dug 3 or 4 grvs cut into by 1 working or pit.' (Transcribed by S-J.Harknett 16/10/2000)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Grave 11.
The initial excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery was carried out in the early months of 1952 by the Cambridge Archaeological Field Club under the direction of the Hon. R.W.H. Erskine and D.M. Wilson. Its discovery was reported by Mr G.O. Vinter, MA, in the autumn of 1951.
Event Date 1952
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The male burial for Grave 11 contained: a sheep's jawbone found behind the skull, a bronze buckle and two knives at his waist, and on his right femur four pieces of iron which proved to be the handle of a small wooden bucket, about 3 inches in diameter, on the surviving mount of which are traces of wood. Scattered throughout the grave, top and bottom, were a number of objects of iron - nails, pins or wire - which had probably been disturbed at the time of the second inhumation and so may in fact relate to that burial.
Event Date 1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Pig's jaw bone
Event Date 1953
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
The catalogue card identified this jaw bone as belonging to a pig, but Wilson identified it as belonging to a sheep.
Event Date 1953
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 11 was a double grave. Wilson notes that the lower skeleton, a female, was pushed to one side to allow for the burial of the man on top. The upper burial must have been almost contemporary with the lower one since although the lower one was in a somewhat distorted position, the joints remained correctly position and the bones were not displaced. (p. 33)
Event Date 1956
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
D.M. Wilson: A sheep's jaw bone.
Event Date 1956
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Wilson, David M. (1956). The Initial Excavations of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Melbourn, Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 49. pp. 29-42. (Not illustrated).
Event Date 1956
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
The two iron knives listed by Wilson as coming from the male grave were not listed as part of the grave contents when Grave 11 was catalogued as 1953.189. However, Grave 9 was described by Wilson as only having one knife and three were recorded when 1953.187 was catalogue (1953.187.11-13). Is it perhaps possible that two of these knives actually belong to Grave 11, but this is uncertain.
Event Date 9/2/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Fragments of the jaw bone of a pig. 11 fragments of bone and 11 teeth present.
Event Date 22/4/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff