Accession No

1948.1242


Description

Small, shouldered urn with everted rim and flattened base. Six round bosses around shoulder. Four faint parallel incised lines around base of neck; groups of two vertical lines either side of each boss. Part of rim missing; damage to part of body, possibly heat spalling.


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

1948.1242


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

151mm


Events

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


Description (Physical description)
Small knobbed urn. Everted rim. Flattened base. Decorated at shoulder, 6 evenly spaced bosses. Shallow horizontal grooving at neck and vertical grooves between bosses. Red brown ware.
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. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'compare 1948.1235'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Small, shouldered urn with everted rim and flattened base. Six round bosses around shoulder. Four faint parallel incised lines around base of neck; groups of two vertical lines either side of each boss. Part of rim missing; damage to part of body, possibly heat spalling.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:19177

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