Object

Accession No

1948.1222

Description

Undecorated globular urn with wide mouth, upright rim and flat base. Small deliberate piercing on lower body close to base. Two small cracks from rim to shoulder opposite each other.

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

1948.1222

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

204mm

Events

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

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

Description (Physical description)
Plain globular cremation urn of reddish black ware. Base slightly flattened. 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 left)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Undecorated globular urn with wide mouth, upright rim and flat base. Small deliberate piercing on lower body close to base. Two small cracks from rim to shoulder opposite each other.
Event Date 9/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe

FM:19551