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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