Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label affixed to pot reads: 'Little Wilbraham'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Small cremation urn of globular form, flattened base, blackish ware. Neck decorated with a band of incised zig zag, the chevrons formed by these being filled with a series of short horizontal incisions. Ring of short oblique lines at shoulder, with similar chevron design below. Anglian type.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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. XXVII (Bottom Left)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville: 'Reconstructed using ?plaster of paris to line the vessel and hold it together.'
Event Date 26/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Gently shouldered pot with everted rim and flat base. Decorated with two bands of chevrons above and below shoulder, separated by a band of slanted grooved lines. Between the chevrons are vertical lines of short horizontal grooves. Poorly reconstructed from sherds; two sherds detached but present.
Event Date 10/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe