Accession No
1948.1252
Description
Biconical pot of blackish-brown ware with narrow mouth, everted rim and flat base. Decorated above shoulder with band of stamps and horizontal linear grooves, and alternating panels of diagonal lines and blocks of stamps; five stamps used in total. Rim missing and reconstructed from infill.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1252
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
193mm
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. XXXII (top left).
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
Context (Related Documents)
Stamps are illustrated on reverse of catalogue card.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Blackish brown ware, cremation urn. Angular shoulder. Rounded base. Slightly everted rim. Plain below shoulder. Neck decorated with band of stamp design above alternating panels of diagonal lines and stamps. Anglian type.
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Biconical pot of blackish-brown ware with narrow mouth, everted rim and flat base. Decorated above shoulder with band of stamps and horizontal linear grooves, and alternating panels of diagonal lines and blocks of stamps; five stamps used in total. Rim missing and reconstructed from infill.
Event Date 9/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff
FM:19187
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