Accession No
1950.224 A.4
Description
Sherd including the rim and neck of an urn. Decorated below rim with five, area depending, parallel horizontal grooves beneath which is a single band of stamp ornament followed by three further parallel horizontal grooves.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lackford; Mill Heath
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1950.224 A.4; MAA: TEMP.01120.3
Cultural Affliation
Material
Pottery; Ceramic
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found: Pagan Saxon Cemetery.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card reads: 'Fragments of two separate urns and a sherd of rusticated ware numbered 49.A.21 One urn is of red brown ware and has three bands of stamp ornament above the carinated shoulder and between parallel lines = [three stamp illustrations]. The other belongs to the same family as 49.35, 49.282 and 49.283. There are two bands of stamp ornament above the shoulder = [four stamp illustrations]. Below these and above the shoulder are chevrons (triangles) filled with stamp ornament [three stamp illustrations]. There is also one sherd from another urn with parallel lines round neck and a band of stamp ornament = [single stamp illustration].'
Event Date 1950
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (Related Documents)
Stamp is illustrated on Catalogue Card.
Event Date 1950
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1951). ‘A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk: Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon Period in 1947.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Sherd from urn with parallel lines round neck and a band of stamp ornament
Event Date 07/09/1987
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Sherd including the rim and neck of an urn. Decorated below rim with five, area depending, parallel horizontal grooves beneath which is a single band of stamp ornament followed by three further parallel horizontal grooves.
Event Date 8/10/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt
FM:287986
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