Accession No
2007.455 A.15
Description
Four fragments of mixed material, including: one small fragment of green glass; one curved piece of metal wire; one small fragment of bone, cut across one end, possibly used as a stamp; one oval piece of yellow material, possibly plastercine, with impressions of the possible bone stamp across the surface.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; [Huntingdonshire]; Buckden
Period
?Anglo Saxon Medieval ?Post-Medieval
Source
Addyman, Peter Vincent [excavator and donor]; Tebbutt, Charles Frederick [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
2007.455 A.15; BUC61 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass; Metal; Bone; ?Plastercine
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)
Unglazed roof tile in bag marked 'BUC61, G5, 1 topsoil, pottery' dated to the 13th century. [Bag is numbered 2007.455 A.8]
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (Related Documents)
Archive Doc. 298 for select illustrations of pottery sherds.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (Related Documents)
Folded note found with objects, handwritten in blue pen, reading: 'Buckden [illegible] G.P. 1961. UCL. From base of large pit excavated early 1961. In small [illegible] Saxon glass + pottery stamp? and also large bone stamp?'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Related Documents)
Archive Doc. 297 for reports on pottery, slag and burnt clay.
Event Date
Author: Annie McKay
Context (Field collection)
From base of large pit. [although the crystal box containing these objects was found with 2007.455 A.13, which is fom H5 1, Topsoil.]. 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: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (References)
Council for British Archaeology. (1961). CBA Group 7 Bulletin 8: Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1961. p. 1
Event Date 1961
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
Context (Acquisition Details)
Material excavated by Addyman in the 1960s and only recently donated to the Museum.
Event Date 2007
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Description for 2007.455 [A-G]: 'BUC61 (Box 5) containing pottery with some bone and flint objects.'
Event Date 2007
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Description for 2007.455 A: 'Sixteen bags of mixed material from various contents.'
Event Date 14/8/2018
Author: Annie McKay
Description (Physical description)
Four fragments of mixed material, including: one small fragment of green glass; one curved piece of metal wire; one small fragment of bone, cut across one end, possibly used as a stamp; one oval piece of yellow material, possibly plastercine, with impressions of the possible bone stamp across the surface.
Event Date 8/9/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
FM:304000
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