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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