Accession No

1948.1227


Description

Pot with high upright rim, wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated around the neck with three horizontal grooves, two rows of stamps and a further four horizontal grooves. Below this is a band of chevron design made from five-lined grooves and containing stamps. One type of stamp used. Large part of neck and rim missing, eight sherds detached but present.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon 6th century


Source

Green, G. (Rev.) [excavator]; Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1227


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

245mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label found with object reads: 'Chesterford by Rev. G. Green'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett


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. XXV (bottom centre).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett


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


Description (CMS Description)
Large cinerary urn of blackish brown ware, globula form. Flattened base. Neck decorated with band of stamp design between paralled grooves. Chevron design at shoulder with triangular spaces filled with stamp. Rim broken; Broken. 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together. Some sherds broken away but present. J. Somerville 26/3/2001.'
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Pot with high upright rim, wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated around the neck with three horizontal grooves, two rows of stamps and a further four horizontal grooves. Below this is a band of chevron design made from five-lined grooves and containing stamps. One type of stamp used. Large part of neck and rim missing, eight sherds detached but present.
Event Date 11/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:19546

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