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
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