Accession No
1934.1242
Description
Undecorated wheel thrown cooking pot with everted rim, rounded shoulder and sagging base. Black to brown fabric with shell temper. Reconstructed from sherds with plaster infill; roughly three-quarters plaster.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; [Huntingdonshire]; St Neots; Hall Place
Period
Anglo Saxon Medieval Saxo Norman
Source
Tebbutt, Charles Frederick [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1934.1242
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
145mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Label found with pot: 'Cooking pot / Tebbutt. pl.II'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Pottery cooking pot, resembling Roman type, especially the rim, but with sagging base and of coarse blackish ware, with fairly smooth rather greasy surface. Wheel made; Restored.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Found: Hut I
Event Date 1929
Author: maa
Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. and Tebbutt, Charles F. (1933). 'Huts of the Anglo-Saxon Period: II. Late Saxon Huts at St Neots' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. XXXIII, pp. 137-151. Plate: II : 2
Event Date 1933
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Heavily reconstructed using infill.'
Event Date 13/6/2001
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Undecorated wheel thrown cooking pot with everted rim, rounded shoulder and sagging base. Black to brown fabric with shell temper. Reconstructed from sherds with plaster infill; roughly three-quarters plaster.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:24955
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