Context (Related Documents)
Reverse of Catalogue Card contains the following entry: 'One of the glazed rim sherds is marked:"Latrine pit: earlier than Henry III'"'.
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Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Rim sherd marked 'FLAMBARDS MANOR MELDRETH LATRINE PIT EARLIER THAN HENRY III'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Display)
Old label found with these objects, probably relating to all this collection reads: ‘Sherds etc. [section missing] the site of a Manor house, Flambard's Manor, Meldreth, Cambs. Most of the sherds shown are from a layer earlier than the one which contained a coin of Henry III. They are chiefly 'Norman' & include only a few of the late Saxon type.’ A further old label adds: "C.A.S. Proc. Vol. XXXV".
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Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Glazed.

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Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found from surface of the moated site [i.e. Flambard's Manor]. Excavated by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1933.
Event Date 1933
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. and Tebbutt, C.F. (1935). ‘Ancient Lime-kilns at Great Paxton, Hunts., their relation to the Anglo-Saxon Church at Great Paxton, and a Tentative Scheme for dating Pottery of the Late Saxon Period.’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 35, pp. 97-105.
Event Date 1935
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
8 sherds found.
Event Date 15/8/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Eight glazed sherds, including one rim sherd with horizontal lines and seven body sherds. Rim sherd with light green glaze on the outside; one body sherd with horizontal grooves and bands alternating in dark and pale blue glaze; two pieces with reddish brown glaze and beige slip decoration; one with traces of green glaze and three with brown glaze, including one with applied decoration.
Event Date 6/12/2023
Author: Jodi Zhang