Accession No
1948.1232
Description
Globular pot with everted rim, wide mouth and flat base. Decorated with six horizontal parallel grooves around the neck followed by two rows of stamps and a further four horizontal grooves. Below this are four-line pendant triangles containing stamps. Three types of stamp used. Half of pot missing, two sherds detached but present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1232
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
200mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Circular red label affixed to surface.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label adhered to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: maa
Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray. Pl. XXVII (bottom centre).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Related Documents)
Designs are illustrated on reverse of catalogue card.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Globular urn. Wide mouth. Flattened base. Band of stamp design between parallel grooves at the shoulder. Chevron and stamp design below shoulder. Black ware. Anglian type; Complete. 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together. Unfortuanately some sherds have become detached (around a quarter of the total) & while 2 are present the rest are missing. J. Somerville 26/3/2001.'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with everted rim, wide mouth and flat base. Decorated with six horizontal parallel grooves around the neck followed by two rows of stamps and a further four horizontal grooves. Below this are four-line pendant triangles containing stamps. Three types of stamp used. Half of pot missing, two sherds detached but present.
Event Date 11/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19167
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