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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