Description (Physical description)
Description for 1969.80 C[.1-45]: 'Three plates, platters or dishes: shallow, and some deeper. McCarthy's. Internally glazed and some also externally. Platters have some decorated rims.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found by workmen in 1968 employed in rebuilding under Barclays Bank, possibly from a pit.
Event Date 1968
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1969.80: 'Plates/pans. (A) saucer, (B) platters, (C) parsingers.'
Event Date 1969
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
McCarthy, M. R. (1974). 'An Early Seventeenth-century Pit Goup from Bene't Street, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 65(2), pp. 79-92. Fig. 1, No. 2-9.
Event Date 1974
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Reconstructed plate of buff fabric with light brown glaze on the inside as well a sprays of the same glaze on the outside. Everted flat-top rim with decoration of diamond-shaped grid stamps on top of the rim; obtuse-angled sagging base. Outside heavily sooted. Reconstructed from two matching sherds with an unknown adhesive.
Event Date 15/1/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung