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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