Accession No

1948.2492 A


Description

Globular cinerary urn with flat base, narrow mouth, upright neck and everted rim. Neck encircled by four grooves, beneath are four raised arches decorated with diagonal lines, with deep dots above and with longitudinal boss beneath. Circular bosses alternate on either side of the arches: all plain except one with incised cross. Rim has missing area that was partly reconstructed with infill; two original sherds detached but present.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lackford; Mill Heath


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.2492 A; UDY 9 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

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.
Event Date 1951
Author: Jazmin Hundal


Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Lethbridge.T.C
(bib) Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, New Series, No. VI (1951)
Event Date 4/8/1987
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
Globular urn, smooth outer finish, with raised knobs and mouldings at shoulder and round neck. Narrow mouth, rim slightly everted. Base flattened. Parallel grooves on moulding encircling base of neck. Four convex festoon mouldings with diagonal grooving, each enclosing two bosses and a vertical rib. A boss is placed above the junction of each pair of festoons. Deep dots outline them and the vertical ribs. Black ware.
'Rim has been reconstructed. 2 loose sherds also present. S-J Harknett 4/6/2001'
Event Date 4/8/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Globular cinerary urn with flat base, narrow mouth, upright neck and everted rim. Neck encircled by four grooves, beneath are four raised arches decorated with diagonal lines, with deep dots above and with longitudinal boss beneath. Circular bosses alternate on either side of the arches: all plain except one with incised cross. Rim has missing area that was partly reconstructed with infill; two original sherds detached but present.
Event Date 23/9/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins


FM:20992

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