Accession No
1948.1200
Description
Carinated urn with flat base, slightly concave neck and slightly everted rim. Decorated above shoulder with three bands of stamps separated by horizontal grooved lines. Band of slanted grooved lines around shoulder. Decorated below shoulder with groups of parallel vertical grooved lines and stamps. Four or five stamps used. Reconstructed using sherds and 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
1948.1200
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
215mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found 1851.
Drawing of stamp designs on reverse of Catalogue Card.
?6 Century AD
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. Plate: XXIV : Bottom Right
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Pencliffe
Description (Physical description)
Decorated with stamps on neck and shoulder and with grooving to make bands in which the bands are set. Anglian type
Event Date 1948
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Carinated urn with flat base, slightly concave neck and slightly everted rim. Decorated above shoulder with three bands of stamps separated by horizontal grooved lines. Band of slanted grooved lines around shoulder. Decorated below shoulder with groups of parallel vertical grooved lines and stamps. Four or five stamps used. Reconstructed using sherds and infill.
Event Date 27/8/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe
FM:19207
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