Context (Field collection)
Found: Anglo Saxon Cemetery
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Animal resembles those on VII Century AD manuscripts and cross shafts.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card has sketch drawings
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1951). ‘A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk: Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon Period in 1947.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6. Fig. 31
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Globular urn with high, everted neck. Flat base. Black ware, polished on outer surface. Interlace chain pattern in a band round neck. Pendant triangles at shoulder, containing alternately an animal with back turned head and a key pattern (swastika). Animal ressembles those on VII Century AD manuscripts and cross shafts.
Event Date 4/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Globular urn of black ware with a high neck, everted rim and flat base. Decorated around the neck with a band of interlace chain pattern between two sets of parallel grooves. Double grooved chevrons at shoulder, containing alternately an animal with back turned head and a hooked cross. Below is an undulating broad groove between two thinner grooves. Urn reconstructed from sherds and infill.
Event Date 22/10/2020
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (References)
Anderson, S., Briscoe, D., Broadley, R., Minter, F., Plouviez, J., Riddler, I. (2022) Lackford, Suffolk LKD 001. Archive Report on excavations at the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery 2015-6 and research into the 1947-9 excavations. Ipswich, Suffolk County Council. (site report)
Event Date 2022
Author: Chloe Pearce

Context (Amendments / updates)
Faye Minter, Jude Plouviez, Ian Riddler, Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski and Rose Broadley, and informed by Sue Anderson, on their visit on 25/11/2019 provided a updated Excavation No. A 2. Where previously there had been '2A [Excavation no.]; 1A [Excavation no.]’.
Event Date 18/11/2024
Author: Chloe Pearce