Accession No

1948.1214


Description

Incomplete globular pot with flat base. Decorated below neck with at least three irregular horizontal grooves. Below this the body is decorated with one type of stamp in an even coverage. Base and rim largely missing, ten sherds detached but present.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1214


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery; Blackish Brown Ware


Local Term


Measurements

200mm


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. XXVII (Centre).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Related Documents)
Stamp design illustrated on Catalogue Card.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Globular. Cremation urn. Rounded base and shoulder. Very rickety. Neck, shallow parallel grooves. Body, chevron pattern formed by stamp. Roughly executed. Rim missing.
'Reconstructed using an inner skin of clay or plaster of paris. A number of sherds of the original vessel now broken off but present. J..Somerville 26/3/2001.'
Event Date 23/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Incomplete globular pot with flat base. Decorated below neck with at least three irregular horizontal grooves. Below this the body is decorated with one type of stamp in an even coverage. Base and rim largely missing, ten sherds detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19220

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