Accession No
1980.470 K
Description
67 sherds of amphorae and coarse ware, and Castor ware. Three everted rim sherds; seven flat base sherds. Some body sherds are decorated with grooves, and some with pattern-burnishing.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Castle Hill; Ridgeons Gardens [Phoenix Gardens]
Period
Roman
Source
Alexander, John (Dr) [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1980.470 K; PG S 26 / 27 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Note found with bag 1980.470 H but which appears to refer to all or part of the assemblage 1980.470 A-T: ‘Coarse rilled cooking pots | PG S 26/27 / 34 rim fragments (probably representing 20 or more pots)
Description: -shorts neck (about 1/2 inch) / -everted, turned down rim - thickened / -some undercut / Decoration: -confined to shoulder and running down to indent waist / -Types: horizontal rilling / 1. Fine + uniform (13 lines/inch) / 2. Fine + banded into bands of 8 lines (13 lines/inch) / 3. Less fine + uniform (9 lines/inch or in bands of 5 lines / Bases - indistinguishable from other types / flat / 1 base included rilling 1” from base / Total fragments excluding bases + rims = 140 / Pit / P.G. 26 / Keep.’
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Dr John Alexander in 1962.
Deposit: FXI Top; GXI Top
Event Date 1962
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Ridgeons Gardens I (Phoenix Gardens), Castle Hill excavations 1962-1963 by John Alexander, Ray Farrar, etc. (Event no. ECB1294).
Event Date 1962
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Related Documents)
Note found with bag 1980.470 H but which appears to refer to all or part of the assemblage 1980.470 A-T: ‘Examined 5/8/66 / But surely there must be another box-full. There are only 10 rims here + 78 bases. / [illegible signature]’
Event Date 5/8/1966
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Related Documents)
Note found with bag 1980.470 H but which appears to refer to all or part of the assemblage 1980.470 A-T: ‘Nene Valley Research Committee / Proxy / 2 large combed jar-rims / 28/11/78’
Event Date 28/11/1978
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1980.470 [A-T]: 'Numerous sherds of amphorae and coarse ware, and Castor ware'
Event Date 10/2/1993
Author: maa
Context (References)
Alexander, John and Pullinger, Joyce. (2000). ‘Roman Cambridge: Excavations on Castle Hill 1956-1988’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 88. pp. 1-268
Event Date 2000
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Amendments / updates)
This IDNO was previously stored 6 boxes, and as such cannot be stored together. The decision has been made to split the IDNO into A-T suffixes, based on the bags they have historically been stored in, sequentially in box order.
Event Date 25/4/2022
Author: Sam Daisley
Description (Physical description)
67 sherds of amphorae and coarse ware, and Castor ware. Three everted rim sherds; seven flat base sherds. Some body sherds are decorated with grooves, and some with pattern-burnishing.
Event Date 26/4/2022
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:296319
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