Accession No
1948.1247
Description
Pot of brownish-black ware, with everted rim, high angular shoulder, and rounded base. Undecorated. Crack down one side of the body, and just less than a quarter of the rim is 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
1948.1247
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
202mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed green label on pot's exterior reads: 'Little Wilbraham'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
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. (Not illustrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Description (CMS Description)
Globular urn. Brownish black ware. Rounded base. High shoulder. 'Reconstructed, small piece of rim missing. J. Somerville 23/3/2001.'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Pot of brownish-black ware, with everted rim, high angular shoulder, and rounded base. Undecorated. Crack down one side of the body, and just less than a quarter of the rim is missing.
Event Date 9/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
FM:19182
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