Accession No
1948.1248
Description
Small pot of blackish ware, with slightly everted rim and flat base. Decorated above shoulder with horizontal grooves and band of stamps. Eight vertical shoulder bosses are interspersed with vertical linear grooves and stamps. One stamp type. Pot has been reconstructed from sherds.
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
1948.1248
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
145mm
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. Pl. XXVI (top left).
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Context (Related Documents)
Diagram of stamp on catalogue card, which also notes: 'Compare 1948.1237'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Small cremation urn of blackish ware, very fragmentary. Decorated with 8 bosses at shoulder. Band of stamp decoration on neck enclosed in horizontal grooves. Vertical grooves and stamp between bosses; Broken. 'Reconstructed, only small amounts of infill. J. Somerville 23/3/2001'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Small pot of blackish ware, with slightly everted rim and flat base. Decorated above shoulder with horizontal grooves and band of stamps. Eight vertical shoulder bosses are interspersed with vertical linear grooves and stamps. One stamp type. Pot has been reconstructed from sherds.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
FM:19183
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