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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