Accession No

1948.1220


Description

Undecorated, globular wide-mouthed pot with flat base. Reconstructed from sherds. One sherd detached but present.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon ?5th century ?6th century


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1220


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

102mm


Events

Context (Found together / assemblage)
?Inhumation.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Small bowl. Globular body. Slightly flattened base. Coarse. Rim slightly everted; ?Inhumation. 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together. One sherd detached. 26/3/2001.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe


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. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Undecorated, globular wide-mouthed pot with flat base. Reconstructed from sherds. One sherd detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:19224

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