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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