Accession No

1905.9


Description

The upper half of a globular vessel of dark clay, with a flat, thick-rimmed neck; decorated with encircling grooves and bands of ?grey paint. With graffito: COBROVA


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Guilden Morden


Period

Roman


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; Nunn, Edmund Brook [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1905.9; RIB 2503.141


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

139mm x 99mm x 125mm


Events

Context (Field collection)
Accession Register: 'Found with many other urns in a clunch-pit, at Great Morden [sic], 1880. By Mr Ed: Nunn (see MS copy of Note Book, p. 20)'
Event Date 1880
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'The upper half of a globular vessel of dark clay, with a flat, thick-rimmed neck; decorated with encircling grooves and bands of gray paint. Inscribed in roughly incised [unclear] capitals COBROVA.'
Event Date 1905
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Auction / Sale)
Originally part of Edmund Brook Nunn's collection and was purchased at the Nunn Sale, Royston on 27 June 1905 with money given by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. No lot number is recorded in the Accessison Register.
Event Date 27/6/1905
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
The upper half of a globular vessel of dark clay, with a flat, thick-rimmed neck; decorated with encircling grooves and bands of ?grey paint. With graffito COBROVA
Event Date 16/11/1993
Author: maa


Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. (1995). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Frere, S.S. and Tomlin, R.S.O. (eds.), Volume II (Instrumentum Domesticum), Fascicule 8 (Graffiti on Coarse Pottery Cut Before and After Firing; Stamp on Coarse Pottery). RIB 2502-2505. Stroud: Alan Sutton. p. 58, Table II (RIB 2503.141)
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn


Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5697 | Remedial
Event Date 16/5/2023
Author: Kirstie French


Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2023.5742 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 20/6/2023
Author: Kirstie French


Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn


FM:64268

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