Accession No
1948.1224
Description
Low-shouldered cinerary urn with a flat base and upright rim. Decorated between neck and shoulder with a triple delineated band of triple-lined triangular panels filled with stamps. Around the shoulder is a band of triangular stamps. Below the shoulder are quadruple deliniated triangular panels of stamps. Seven stamps used. Reconstructed using sherds and infill. Filled with plaster.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century AD
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1224
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
222mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
A cremation urn of Anglian type with a globular body and a very damaged based. This urn has been broken and repaired. This urn is unusual in being decorated all over the body, except for the upper edge of the neck and rim. At the shoulder there is a band of a triangle-stamped design. Above and below the shoulder a chevron design has been used, around which a number of stamped designs have been used - circular, triangular, fan shaped, rectangular and S-shaped.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (CMS Context)
Found 1851.
Ref. Plate: 24, bottom left in Braybrooke, R.C. Neville, Saxon obsequies (London: J. Murray, 1852).
Card includes copies of the stamped designs.
See Linton Heath [19]48.1281
Event Date 21/4/1987
Author: maa
Context (CMS Context)
A green label reads 'LITTLE WILBRAHAM.'.
Event Date 30/1/2013
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
FM:19549
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