Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label affixed to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Large. Blackish brown ware, flattened foot. Seven embossed strips placed vertically from the shoulder. Neck decorated with horizontal grooves. A row of circular depressions encircle the base of the neck. Cremation urn; Complete.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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. XXVIII (Centre)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville: 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together.'
Event Date 26/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Shouldered pot with narrow mouth, everted rim and flattened base. Decorated with between nine and eleven grooved lines above shoulder. Band of stamps around shoulder. Seven long vertical bosses around shoulder extending to lower body, each with two vertical grooved lines either side. One long crack from rim to base.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe