Accession No

1948.1264


Description

Bowl of blackish, sandy ware. Wide mouth, everted rim, and angular shoulder. Decorated with linear grooves around neck with two rows of stamps below, and closely-spaced 2.5cm vertical lines around the shoulder. Reconstructed from sherds and plaster; most of base and some of the body and rim are missing; six sherds detached but present.


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

1948.1264


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

139mm


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. XXVII (top centre)
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


Context (Related Documents)
Drawing of stamp design on catalogue card
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Bowl of blackish, sandy ware. Wide mouth, everted rim, and angular shoulder. Decorated with linear grooves around neck with two rows of stamps below, and closely-spaced 2.5cm vertical lines around the shoulder. Reconstructed from sherds and plaster; most of base and some of the body and rim are missing - six sherds detached but present.
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Possibly from an inhumation burial.
Event Date 8/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff


FM:19199

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