Accession No
1888.30.127
Description
Urn with everted rim and mottled orange/brown surface colouring. Decorated with parallel horizontal grooves around the neck, below which is a band of stamp design. Following this are sets of vertical grooves creating panels also filled with stamps. One type of stamp used. 116 sherds present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Grange Road; St John’s College Cricket Field cemetery
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; St John’s College, Cambridge [donor]; von Hügel, Anatole [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1888.30.127; MAA: Z 16296; J.64
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Amendments / updates)
These objects are all part of Accession Register number 1888.30, which was subsequently given the Z number 16296. Complete pots have been allocated separate records. The 'J' numbers on the bags of sherds have been used to differentiate between them in the catalogue record.
Event Date 6/6/2001
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1888.30[.122-135]: 'St John's Cricket Field Anglo-Saxon cemetery, sherds, J.59-72'
Event Date 6/6/2001
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (Physical description)
Urn with everted rim and mottled orange/brown surface colouring. Decorated with parallel horizontal grooves around the neck, below which is a band of stamp design. Following this are sets of vertical grooves creating panels also filled with stamps. One type of stamp used. 116 sherds present.
Event Date 28/10/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:288219
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