Accession No

1948.1205


Description

Globular pot with high everted rim and flat base. Decorated around the neck with a row of stamps bound between three horizontal parallel grooves. Decorated across shoulder with pendant triangles made from eight diagonal grooves and containing stamps. Between each pendant triangle is a set of four or five vertical grooves. Two types of stamp used. Possible heat spalling at upper body. Partially reconstructed from sherds.


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

1948.1205


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

220mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label adhered to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett


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. XXIX (top Right).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Related Documents)
Stamps are illustrated on reverse of Catalogue Card.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Cremation urn. Red brown ware. Globular body. Flattened Base. Concave neck. Plain, slightly everted, rim. Above shoulder, parallel lines enclosing row of cruciform stamp design and diagonal lines. Below shoulder, chevron grooves design, bordered with crecentic stamps. Anglian type
'Reconstructed using ?Plaster of Paris to line the vessel and hold it together. S-J Harknett 26/3/2001'
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Globular pot with high everted rim and flat base. Decorated around the neck with a row of stamps bound between three horizontal parallel grooves. Decorated across shoulder with pendant triangles made from eight diagonal grooves and containing stamps. Between each pendant triangle is a set of four or five vertical grooves. Two types of stamp used. Possible heat spalling at upper body. Partially reconstructed from sherds.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19211

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