Context (Related Documents)
Old note accompanies objects that reads: 'Fragments of stained glass & pottery, found during excavations at Burwell Castle. The glass and some of the potsherds probably belong to a later building (XIV century) on the site of the castle, which was constructed about 1142 AD'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Thomas Lethbridge, for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, in 1935.
Event Date 1935
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1936). Excavation at Burwell Castle, Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 36. pp. 121-133.
Event Date 1936
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Potsherds, mostly of coarse grey wares, some of rather greasy texture recalling Early Iron Age technique; a few sherds of Castor ware.

Event Date 1937
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1937.32[.2-5]: 'Also one fish vertebra, chalk, one piece of glass, two iron nails and some fragments of iron.'
Event Date 23/8/2001
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A small fragment of chalk.
Event Date 14/1/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson