Accession No

1948.1231


Description

Very small pot with flat base, low shoulder and upright rim. Decorated below the neck with a row of stamps bound between four horizontal parallel grooves. The shoulder is decorated with thirteen slight undefined bosses at shoulder, each with a set of vertical grooves either side. One stamp type.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon 6th century


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1231


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

78mm Weight 210.0kg


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label adhered to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
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. Pl. XXXIII (top right).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Related Documents)
Card includes a copy of the stamp design found on the urn.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Miniature urn of blackish brown sandy ware. Thirteen slight bosses at shoulder. Band of stamp design at neck between parallel grooves. Anglian type
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Very small pot with flat base, low shoulder and upright rim. Decorated below the neck with a row of stamps bound between four horizontal parallel grooves. The shoulder is decorated with thirteen slight undefined bosses at shoulder, each with a set of vertical grooves either side. One stamp type.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19542

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