Accession No
1948.1225
Description
Pot with high everted rim, narrow neck, low wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated below neck with a horizontal undecorated cordon followed by a horizontal shallow groove, a row of stamps and two further shallow grooves. The shoulder has a row of stamps intersected by prominent short vertical bosses with a vertical deep groove down the centre. Either side of these bosses is decorated with two shallow vertical grooves. Two types of stamp used. Two parts of the rim missing.
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
1948.1225
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
225mm
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. XXX (top left).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Context (Related Documents)
Card has drawing of the stamped ornament
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Cremation urn with globular body and high, slightly everted neck. Five fluted bosses ornament shoulder. Cordon round neck. Band of stamped ornament beween neck and shoulder and a ring of stamps encircle area immediately above bosses
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Pot with high everted rim, narrow neck, low wide shoulder and flat base. Decorated below neck with a horizontal undecorated cordon followed by a horizontal shallow groove, a row of stamps and two further shallow grooves. The shoulder has a row of stamps intersected by prominent short vertical bosses with a vertical deep groove down the centre. Either side of these bosses is decorated with two shallow vertical grooves. Two types of stamp used. Two parts of the rim missing.
Event Date 11/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19548
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