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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