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.
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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 F5 I 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)
24 sherds from multiple vessels, one tile and two pieces of bone. Includes two everted rim sherds, colour-coated ware and multiple sherds of grey ware with applied dots, possibly barbotine; one tile of orange fabric decorated with multi-directional combing; two fragments of burnt bone.
Event Date 8/9/2023
Author: Katrina Dring