Accession No
2007.455 C.7
Description
42 sherds from multiple vessels and one piece of possible corrosion. Includes six everted and upright rim sherds; one sherd decorated with a raised ridge and one with possible burnished lines; grey, brown, orange and cream fabrics; one piece of layered material with crystalline adhesions, possibly from contact with iron.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; [Huntingdonshire]; Buckden
Period
Iron Age Roman Anglo Saxon Post Medieval
Source
Addyman, Peter Vincent [excavator and donor]; Tebbutt, Charles Frederick [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
2007.455 C.7; BUC61 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Pottery; Ceramic
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
MAA Archives contain information about 2007.455. These documents are: Doc. 296 - 298.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (Analysis)
Archive Doc.298 for select illustrations of sherds.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (Analysis)
Archive Doc.297 for notes on pottery.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (References)
Council for British Archaeology. (1961). CBA Group 7 Bulletin 8: Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1961. p. 1
Event Date 1961
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Field collection)
Bag marked: 'BUC 1961 E5 II F2 1 Ditch Fill' Excavations at Buckden gravel pits by Peter V. Addyman and Charles F. Tebbutt, 1961-1964. See archive for site reports, plans, etc. (Doc.296-Doc.300).
Event Date 1961
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Acquisition Details)
Material excavated by Addyman in the 1960s and only recently donated to the Museum.
Event Date 2007
Author: Annie McKay
Description (Physical description)
Description for 2007.455 [A-G]: 'BUC61 (Box 5) containing pottery with some bone and flint objects.'
Event Date 2007
Author: Annie McKay
Description (Physical description)
Description for 2007.455 C[.1-20]: 'Seventeen bags of pottery sherds, a mixture of Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon with few examples of Post Medieval. There is a mixture in types of pottery including fine black wares, cooking pots, St Neots ware, coarse wares, grey wares, coarse red wares and shelly wares. Pieces of Roman mortarium are seen. Some Anglo-Saxon sherds are decorated with incised lines and stamps. There is evidence of burning and over-firing. Roman tile seen in bag labelled 'Buc1961, F51, F2, 1'. '
Event Date 14/8/2018
Author: Annie McKay
Description (Physical description)
42 sherds from multiple vessels and one piece of possible corrosion. Includes five everted rim sherds; one sherd decorated with a raised ridge and one with possible burnished lines; grey, brown, orange and cream fabrics; one piece of layered material with crystalline adhesions, possibly from contact with iron.
Event Date 8/9/2023
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:303971
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