Accession No
1948.1217
Description
Knobbed vessel with upright neck and slightly everted rim. Four parallel grooved lines around neck with band of stamps below. Decorated around shoulder with nine round bosses, each with vertical grooved lines and a row of stamps between. Two stamps used. Base entirely reconstructed and probably not representative. Reconstructed using sherds and infill.
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
1948.1217; MAA: 1948.1216 [incorrect]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
90mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Small knobbed urn. Base missing, but was probably flat and well formed. Shoulder decorated with 9 knobs, the spaces between these having vertical grooving and stamp design. Band of stamp design between enclosing parallel grooves at neck. Anglian type.
?Inhumation.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Found 1851.
Illustration of stamp design 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 33 left centre.
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Pencliffe
Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked 1948.1216.
Event Date 29/8/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe
Description (Physical description)
Knobbed vessel with upright neck and slightly everted rim. Four parallel grooved lines around neck with band of stamps below. Decorated around shoulder with nine round bosses, each with vertical grooved lines and a row of stamps between. Two stamps used. Base entirely reconstructed and probably not representative. Reconstructed using sherds and infill.
Event Date 29/8/2024
Author: Lily Pencliffe
FM:19223
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