Accession No

1948.1223


Description

Undecorated shouldered urn with high neck, everted rim and flattened base. Six short vertical bosses around shoulder. Part of rim and base missing.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1223


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

240mm


Events

Context (Analysis)
6 Century AD
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


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


Description (Physical description)
Cremation urn of globular form with rounded base, concave neck and slightly everted rim. Only decoration is six bosses at shoulder. Anglian type.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found 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. (Illustrated plate XXXII: Bottom right)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville: 'Reconstructed; some sherds missing from rim.'
Event Date 23/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Undecorated shouldered urn with high neck, everted rim and flattened base. Six short vertical bosses around shoulder. Part of rim and base missing.
Event Date 9/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:19550

Images (Click to view full size):