Accession No

1948.1207


Description

Sharp-shouldered cinerary urn with a slightly flattened base and everted rim. Decorated between neck and shoulder with a delineated band of triple-lined triangular panels filled with stamps. Below the shoulder are alternating panels of slanted grooved lines and stamped ornament. One stamp used. Reconstructed using plaster and infill, filled with plaster.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon 6th century AD


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1207


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

254mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
A globular urn in Blackish brown ware with a rounded shoulder and plain, slightly everted rim. The neck is decorated with a grooved chevron design. The chevron spaces are filled with a stamp of square design. There are three parallel horizontal grooves at the shoulder under which diagonal lines interspersed with an imprint of same stamp for 2.0" appear. This urn is Anglian in type.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found 1851.
Stamp design illustration on 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 : Top Left
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Pencliffe


Description (Physical description)
Sharp-shouldered cinerary urn with a slightly flattened base and everted rim. Decorated between neck and shoulder with a delineated band of triple-lined triangular panels filled with stamps. Below the shoulder are alternating panels of slanted grooved lines and stamped ornament. One stamp used. Reconstructed using plaster and infill, filled with plaster.
Event Date 27/8/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe


FM:19213

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