Accession No
1948.1228
Description
Small pot with upright rim, flat base and footring. Decorated above the shoulder with one row of stamps and one row of grooved zigzags bound between three sets of two horizontal parallel grooves. Below the shoulder are are six long vertical bosses with vertical grooves on either side and panels of stamps. Four type of stamps used. Reconstructed from sherds, part of rim missing.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon ?early 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1228
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
110mm
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. XXXI (top right)
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Related Documents)
Card includes copies of the impressions found on the bowl.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Small bowl of urn type of blackish brown ware. Moulded, slightly hollowed foot. 6 embossed strips on lower part of body. Band of stamp impressions at neck. Z ig zag incisions at shoulder; stamp ornament in panels between embossed strips.
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Small pot with upright rim, flat base and footring. Decorated above the shoulder with one row of stamps and one row of grooved zigzags bound between three sets of two horizontal parallel grooves. Below the shoulder are are six long vertical bosses with vertical grooves on either side and panels of stamps. Four type of stamps used. Reconstructed from sherds, part of rim missing.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19545
Images (Click to view full size):