Context (Field collection)
Label found on base of crystal box with TEMP.00528 D.1-2: 'C.C. D [?13] / Light brown sand'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked: 'CC D 12'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Original description for TEMP.00528 [A-E]: 'Roman sherds of grey ware, colour coated ware, etc. Bronze Roman bracelet. Pipe stem and bowls.'
Event Date 26/7/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The objects in this box are marked with the excavation number 'CC' followed by a sequential letter (A - E) and a small finds number. It is not clear which site 'CC' refers to, although whoever boxed them guessed that it could be Cherry Hinton. Ben Donnelly-Symes, Archaeological Officer (HER) at the Cambridgeshire County Council, wrote in July 2018 to say that they have "two boxes of bulk find archive with the code CC with the same subsequent lettering. However, our database has no event number, name of the site, originator (except one) or year. One of the database entries does have the name John Alexander attached and from what the labelling system is like, it does look like one of his sites. They also a note stating that the box’s date range is 1957 to 1973 so that would fit with John Alexander’s excavations. Which one exactly is a good question though. It could be something to do with his work near to the Castle but none of the codes match up there.' John Alexander has been tentatively added as the excavator here.
Event Date 6/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
It is not known which object the label found with TEMP.00528 D.1-2 belongs to.
The label has been amended and originally read 'C.C. A 2j'. It is not clear whether the descriptive note of 'light brown sand' belongs to the original context or to the subsequently amended one, but it is written in the same ink as the original note, while the amendment is in pencil. The amended number is also unclear, and may read 'CC D 3', 'CC D 13' or 'CC D B'. Since there was another label in the same crystal box which reads 'CC D 3 Dark Gravelly', and most of the excavation numbers are in the format of [letter] [number], it was decided that the most likely intention was 'CC D 13' and this has been added to the Other numbers field for both TEMP.00528 D.1 and TEMP.00528 D.2.
Event Date 20/8/2021
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
One sherd from the body of a coarse ware vessel. Brown to black fabric with shell temper.
Event Date 20/8/2021
Author: Katrina Dring