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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