Accession No
1888.30.307
Description
Decorated rim and body sherds from many urns showing a number of stamps and decorative techniques.
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
1888.30.307; MAA: Z 16296; J.213
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Other)
Partially separated and bagged in 3 groups, with various decorated and undecorated sherds in the base of the box. Its not clear if these bags were meant to represent sherds of different pots. The undecorated sherds were part of 1888.30.306.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Related Documents)
Piece of paper found with 1888.30.306-307 reads: 'J.213 = decorated, J.216 = plain. Scrap sherds no pot (non-existent pots) all in one box.' (transcribed by Sarah-Jane Harknett 6/6/2001)
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley
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: Sam Daisley
Description (Physical description)
Description for [1888.30.306-307]: 'St John's Cricket Field Anglo-Saxon cemetery, sherds, J.213, J.216'
Event Date 6/6/2001
Author: Sam Daisley
Description (Physical description)
Decorated rim and body sherds from many urns showing a number of stamps and decorative techniques.
Event Date 2/11/2020
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:288333
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