Accession No

1948.1258


Description

Globular pot with everted rim and flattened base. Two parallel grooved lines around base of neck with a band of stamps beneath. Seven standing triangular panels of stamps above shoulder.


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

1948.1258


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

166mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label affixed to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (Related Documents)
Drawing of stamp design on catalogue card
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Small, globular urn. Slightly flattened base. Everted rim. 2 parallel grooves round neck, below which is a ring of stamp design with seven triangular panels of stamp design suspended from it.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe


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. (Illustrated plate XXV: Top right)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with everted rim and flattened base. Two parallel grooved lines around base of neck with a band of stamps beneath. Seven standing triangular panels of stamps above shoulder.
Event Date 9/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:19193

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