Accession No

1948.1235


Description

Pot with flat base and everted rim. Decorated around the neck with five irregular horizontal grooves, followed by a band of four-line chevrons containing two different types of stamp. The chevrons are interspersed with four short vertical shoulder bosses. Possible heat spalling to lower pot, some areas reenforced with infill.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1235


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

160mm


Events

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. XXV (right bottom).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Related Documents)
Diagrams of designs on reverse of catalogue card
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Cremation urn. Brownish black ware. Four unevenly placed bosses and chevron design, both at shoulder. Latter design combined with stamps and ring of stamps below bosses; Complete. 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together. J. Somerville 26/3/2001.'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Pot with flat base and everted rim. Decorated around the neck with five irregular horizontal grooves, followed by a band of four-line chevrons containing two different types of stamp. The chevrons are interspersed with four short vertical shoulder bosses. Possible heat spalling to lower pot, some areas reenforced with infill.
Event Date 11/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19170

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