Accession No
1888.30.141 B
Description
Possibly human bone. Curved sub-rectangular in shape, broken at both terminals.
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
1888.30.141 B; MAA: Z 16296; J.79
Cultural Affliation
Material
?Human Bone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Amendments / updates)
These objects are all part of Accession Register number 1888.30, which was subseguently 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: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Record for 1888.30[.136-145]: 'St John's Cricket Field Anglo-Saxon cemetery, sherds, J.74-83'
Event Date 6/6/2001
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Possibly human bone. Curved sub-rectangular in shape, broken at both terminals.
Event Date 29/10/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found with vessels (1888.30.141 A) was a fragment of possibly human bone. The decision was taken to assign it a suffix (1888.30.141 B). As 1888.30.141 A relates to multiple urns, it is not possible to know with which the bone is associated.
Event Date 29/10/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:288228
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