Accession No

1936.836 B


Description

Large cowrie shell (Cypraea pantherina). Some loss from the sides and missing the dorsal face.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Shudy Camps


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator] 


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1936.836 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Shell; Cowrie


Local Term


Measurements

80mm


Events

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found at feet of woman's skeleton
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps Cemetery, Grave 48. Excavated by T.C. Lethbridge in 1933.
Double grave of woman and child.
Event Date 1933
Author: maa


Context (References)
Lethbridge, T. C. 1936, A Cemetery at Shudy Camps Cambridgeshire. Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Christian Anglo-Saxon Period in 1933. Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Quarto Publications. New Series, no. V. Fig. 4
Event Date 1936
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Cowrie shell (Cypraea pantherina).
Event Date 22/7/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Large cowrie shell (Cypraea pantherina). Some loss from the sides and missing the dorsal face.
Event Date 13/4/2021
Author: Emily Shorter


FM:19352

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