Accession No
1950.219 A.2
Description
Four sherds of an urn with shoulder bosses and a footed base. Decorated with a band of stabbed ornament above shoulder, bordered by parallel grooved lines above and below as well as between the bosses. One stamp used.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lackford; Mill Heath
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1950.219 A.2; WDY 45 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found on top of 1950.219 B
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Field collection)
Found: Pagan Saxon Cemetery
Event Date 1947
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card has a drawings of stamp designs
Event Date 1950
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1950.219 A[.1-.2]: 'Fragments of a large, undecorated carinated urn of coarse black ware and a few sherds from a smaller urn with a foot ring, shoulder bosses and stabbed decoration.
Found on top of 1950.219 B'
Event Date 1950
Author: Lily Stancliffe
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)
Four sherds of an urn with shoulder bosses and a footed base. Decorated with a band of stabbed ornament above shoulder, bordered by parallel grooved lines above and below as well as between the bosses. One stamp used.
Event Date 13/10/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (References)
Anderson, S., Briscoe, D., Broadley, R., Minter, F., Plouviez, J., Riddler, I. (2022) Lackford, Suffolk LKD 001. Archive Report on excavations at the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery 2015-6 and research into the 1947-9 excavations. Ipswich, Suffolk County Council. (site report)
Event Date 2022
Author: Chloe Pearce
FM:288043
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