Accession No
1948.1208
Description
Pot with upright rim, low shoulder and flat base. Decorated above the shoulder with two rows of stamps bound between three sets of three parallel grooves. Below the should is decorated with three-lined chevrons. Two type of stamp used. Large areas of body and rim missing, six sherds detached but present.
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
1948.1208
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
170mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label adhered to sherds 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. XXVII (top Right).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Related Documents)
Stamp design illustrations on Catalogue Card.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Small globular urn of brownish black ware with rounded shoulder and plain rim, slightly everted. Base rounded. Chevron design below shoulder formed by grooves grouped in ' 3s' . Neck decorated by 2 bands of different stamps between 3 parallel horizontal grooves. Anglian type
'Reconstructed using ?Plaster of Paris to line the vessel and hold it together. Has started to break away again, with a number of loose sherds. S-J Harknett 26/3/2001'
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Pot with upright rim, low shoulder and flat base. Decorated above the shoulder with two rows of stamps bound between three sets of three parallel grooves. Below the should is decorated with three-lined chevrons. Two type of stamp used. Large areas of body and rim missing, six sherds detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19214
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