Context (Field collection)
Collected by: Pagan Anglo Saxon
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card includes sketch drawings of the stamp designs
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.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Large globular urn of black ware. High neck, with plain, upright rim. Nine groups of stamps arranged in triangular form at base of neck, which is encircled by a raised " rope" moulding. Four parallel grooves below this moulding, below which are eight pronounced knobs, joined by a row of stamp design. Shoulder is ornamented with four large bosses (hot cross bun) alternating with four groups of three vertical ribs. Semi circle of stamp ornament above each large boss.
'Reconstructed using infill. K. Sutton 16/5/2001'
Event Date 4/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Large shouldered urn of black ware with upright rim and flattened base. Around the neck are nine triangular groups of nine stamps above a raised rope moulding and four deep grooves; above the shoulder are eight small, stamped bosses with large stamps between. Around the shoulder are four large bosses surmounted by standing arches and a band of stamps, and alternating with sets of three vertical ribs with diagonal and vertical groove decoration. Four stamp types used. Reconstructed with infill.
Event Date 21/10/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

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: corrected excavation No. provided F 3, was previously '3F'.
Event Date 11/11/2024
Author: Chloe Pearce

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 11/11/2024
Author: Chloe Pearce