Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 25306 [A-B]: 'Sherds. A large glazed medieval base (fragments) and two other sherds.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Old note found with objects reads: 'Sitting hen. North. Flambards. Oct 21 1934.'
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".
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: 'Sherds labelled "Sitting hen (?) North. Flambards Oct 21 1934". The two other sherds are marked "Under stone. Sit.N." and "On stones. Sittingtten.N."'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1933. Possibly collected by Charles Frederick Tebbutt in 21 October, 1934.
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)
Description for Z 25306 [A-B]: '12 sherds in total.'
Event Date 15/8/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Base sherd of a brown-glazed vessel, with greenish slip decoration. Reconstructed from four pieces, one of which has now failed.
Event Date 5/12/2023
Author: Jodi Zhang