Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed green label on pot's exterior reads: 'Little Wilbraham'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

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. (Not illustrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (CMS Description)
Cremation urn. Rounded base. Globular body. 4 knobs at shoulder. Rough groovings at the neck and between bosses. Red brown ware; Complete. 'Heavily reconstructed with an inner skin of clay holding it together. Some sherds loose in the bottom of the urn. J. Somerville 23/3/2001.'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Globular urn of red-brown ware with flat base. Three horizontal linear grooves above shoulder. Four shoulder bosses interspersed with incised shield-like design. Possible evidence of heat spalling on body. Reconstructed from sherds - rim is missing, along with a portion of the body; nine sherds detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff