Accession No

1933.622 C


Description

Twelve sherds of varying size and a small plastic bag containing minute ceramic fragments, likely belonging to additional beakers, all made of coarse ware. The assemblage includes one larger rim sherd and the remainder body sherds. Some sherds preserve exterior decoration consisting of horizontal grooves and chevron-like or diagonal incised lines, which appear to form horizontal bands.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Littleport; Shippea Hill; Plantation Farm


Period

Bronze Age


Source

Leaf, Charles S. [collector and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1933.622 C


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
One sherd marked in black ink reading: 'BURNT FEN'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1933.622 [A-C] reads: '[...] A few sherds of other beakers [...].'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1933.622 [A-C]: '2 sherds of unusually large beaker. A few sherds of other beakers. 1 unusually large beaker of coarse dark brown gritted ware; 1 sherd of a thick coarse ware. The 2 sherds of the large beaker are elaborately ornamented with rouletted lines, bands of finger nail impressions, and alternating panels of diagonal groups of rouletted lines, and vertical rows of impressed concentric circles. The other sherds are ornamented with rough loop-shaped impressions.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found on the occupation site by Charles S. Leaf, presumably during his initial visit in May 1931. The site, known as Plantation Farm, was identified in 1931 by Charles S. Leaf and John Grahame Douglas Clark near Shippea Hill railway station. Clark subsequently cut a trial trench and donated a burnt assemblage of unstratified material to the Museum later that same year. The site was more fully excavated by Clark under the auspices of the Fenland Research Committee in autumn 1932, with the resulting finds donated to the Museum in 1933. This accession appears to be the only object from Plantation Farm collected and donated by Charles S. Leaf rather than by Clark.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa


Context (References)
Clark, G. et al. (1933). 'Report on an Early Bronze Age Site in the South-Eastern Fens'. Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 pp 266–296.
Event Date 1933
Author: Peter Rooley


Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. pp. 269–270.
Event Date 1938
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Twelve sherds of varying size and a small plastic bag containing minute ceramic fragments, likely belonging to additional beakers, all made of coarse ware. The assemblage includes one larger rim sherd and the remainder body sherds. Some sherds preserve exterior decoration consisting of horizontal grooves and chevron-like or diagonal incised lines, which appear to form horizontal bands.
Event Date 18/12/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:327848

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