Object

Accession No

1948.1240

Description

Small carinated pot with everted rim and rounded base. Three broad parallel grooved lines around base of neck. Part of rim missing.

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

1948.1240

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

56mm x 64mm Weight 0.101kg

Events

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

Context (Field collection)
?Inhumation
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Miniature. Red brown ware. Rounded base. Concave neck. Shallow horizontal grooving on the neck. Rim broken; Broken.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
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. XXXIII (Top Left)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Small carinated pot with everted rim and rounded base. Three broad parallel grooved lines around base of neck. Part of rim missing.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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