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

Description (Physical description)
Squat, wide mouthed cremation urn with seven vertical embossed strips placed vertically at the shoulder. Two bands of stamp decoration above shoulder. Panels of stamp decoration with criss cross and vertical grooves between embossed strips. Base missing. Black ware.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Excavated in 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. XXV (Top Centre)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Diagram of design on reverse of catalogue card: "Only stamp used"
Event Date 1948
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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)
Wide, low-shouldered pot with slightly everted rim and missing base. Decorated with two bands of stamps around base of neck with double grooved lines above and below. Seven long bosses around lower body with panels of stamped decoration and incised lines between, some horizontal, some crossing, some chevron. Two stamps used. Part of rim, body and all of base missing; three sherds detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe