Description (Analysis)
Mounted on card which reads: 'Remains of a Shrew and Mouse which were found in this coffin. Note distal end (ear foot) of left Tibia, which as been gnawed.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
In addition the skeletons of a shrew and a mouse are seen, though this is not noted on the handwritten catalogue card only on the later typed card.
Event Date 1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Burial 4.
Found: Arbury Road Building Estate, excavated by Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge University in 1952. Found below the N.E. corner of the chalk floor which covered coffin 1952.442; this body was deposited before 1952.442
Event Date 1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Fell, Clare. 1956. 'Roman Burials Found at Arbury Road, Cambridge, 1952'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol XLIX. pp. 13-23.
Event Date 1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Frend, W.H.C. 1955. 'A Romano-British Settlement at Arbury Road, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol XLVIII. pp. 10-43.
Event Date 1955
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Frend, W.H.C. 1959. 'Further Finds on the Arbury Road Estate'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol LII. pp. 69-72.
Event Date 1959
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Liversidge, Joan. 1977. 'Roman Burials in the Cambridge Area'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol LXVII. pp. 11-38.
Event Date 1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (CMS Context)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Report. December 1953. pp. 3.
Event Date 23/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (CMS Context)
Eleanor Wilkinson noted: The suffix 'C' has been added at a later date in a different hand on the handwritten catalogue card as only A-B exist in the Accession Register. This catalogue card references the woollen shroud and the snail shell as 'C'. It there seems that the suffix 'C' was all encompassing for the woven material, the shell, the bones of a mouse, and the bones of a shrew.
Event Date 23/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)