Accession No
1948.1243
Description
Shouldered cinerary urn with flat base and slightly everted rim. Decorated above shoulder with two bands of stamps bordered by horizontal grooved lines above and below. Decorated on shoulder with pendant triangles containing a single horizontal band of stamps. Band of stamps between points of triangles. Possible heat spall. Part of rim missing. Six fragments detached but present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century AD
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1243
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
197mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found 1851.
6 Century AD.
Drawing of stamp on catalogue card
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. Plate: XXVI : Bottom Left
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Pencliffe
Description (Physical description)
A globular, red brown ware cremation urn with a rounded base and slightly everted rim. A double row of stamps in a circular shape are around the neck enclosed in parallel grooves. A chevron design combined with stamps around the shoulder again in a circular design are deeply impressed. Fragments of the rim are located with this object.
Event Date 1948
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Shouldered cinerary urn with flat base and slightly everted rim. Decorated above shoulder with two bands of stamps bordered by horizontal grooved lines above and below. Decorated on shoulder with pendant triangles containing a single horizontal band of stamps. Band of stamps between points of triangles. Possible heat spall. Part of rim missing. Six fragments detached but present.
Event Date 27/8/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe
FM:19178
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