Context (Field collection)
Collected by Isaiah Deck or Professor Sedgwick in ?1841 or ?1859.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked 'C 4' in white ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 1: 'Bronze Age... 1 Collarerd Urn, containing fragmented bones... Prf. Sedgwick Deck Coll. 1841'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 3: 'Cinerary urn with pin-prick decoration around neck... Bronze Age... don. Professor Sedgwick to C.AS... Deck Coll. 1841 d. C.A.S. (1883)...'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 2: 'Iron Age... URN pottery British. Mople Fen (dyke) 1841. Deck Collection. Old Number C 4 C.A.S'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Fox (1923): 'At Mepal two vessels... were found together in 1859 in a "very low and broad tumulus" in the fen - probably a natural hillock'.
Event Date 1859
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Author unknown. (1860). 'An abstract of the proceedings at the meetings of the Society'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol II. p. 7.
Event Date 1860
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.179 [A-B]: 'Cremated human bone and urn with decorated collar.'
Event Date 1883
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fox (1923): 'At Mepal two vessels, a cinerary urn with deep overhanging rim, about 7.5 inches high, full of burnt bones, and a tiny bowl decorated with an indented lattice pattern, were found together'.
Event Date 1923
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. p. 37. pl. III no. 3

Event Date 1923
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
From the information found in Fox (1923), the meeting report (1860), and the three different catalogue cards it appears there is some confusion made over when this object was found. Both Fox and the CAS report state it was found in 1859 yet two of the catalogue cards suggest the object was in the possession of Deck in 1841. At present the Cambridge Antiquarian Society have been noted in the source as the donor but both Sedgwick and Deck are only tentatively included until further investigation can be carried out.
Event Date 28/2/2019
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Cremated human bone.
Event Date 2/9/2025
Author: Lily Pencliffe