Context (Display)
Historic display label found with Z 30867 A-C: 'Figured Specimens from Camb Ant Soc / Bird Bolt Hotel 1906 / found in digging foundations for Norwich Union and Liberal Club. / 19 boxes sent to Archaeol[og]y Mus[eu]m / T McKenny Hughes'

[See image attached to record Z 26852 A. Katrina Dring, 05/02/2024]
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16578 [A-D]: 'Two 2 handled mugs, 1 Jug: Babylon Ware. Fragment of blue and white Delft plate.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Marked in black ink: 'BIRD BOLT CAMBRIDGE.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Field collection)
Found during building work, 1904-1906 (see Browne, p. 26)
Event Date 1904
Author: maa

Context (References)
Hughes, Thomas McKenny. (1907). 'On the Section Seen and the Objects Found During Excavations on the Site of the Old Bird Bolt Hotel'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 11(3). pp. 424-445
Event Date 1907
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Browne, David M. (1974). 'An Archaeological Gazetteer of the City of Cambridge.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 65. p. 26
Event Date 1974
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16578 [A-D]: 'One of mugs has all of rim broken off and missing. The other mug is base and lower part of body only. All of rim of jug broken off and missing.'
Event Date 27/9/2001
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Lower section of Babylon Ware jug. Remains of handle on shoulder, finished with a thumbed impression; globular body; concave, splayed base with two horizontal ridges above. Red fabric; bright black glaze on internal and external surfaces except under base.
Event Date 16/10/2023
Author: Danlei Zhou