Accession No

1931.237.7


Description

One body sherd of coarse, light grey fabric, decorated on the exterior with horizontal zones of deep fingernail impressions separated by a horizontally incised line.


Place

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


Period

Bronze Age


Source

Clark, John Grahame Douglas (Prof.) [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1931.237.7


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Small circular red sticker bearing the handwritten number '10' affixed to the sherd.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (Related Documents)
1931.237.4-8 in a bag with typewritten display label reading: 'Fragments of pottery of coarse fabric with incised decoration.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1931.237[.1-64]: '1 base sherd; 3 wall-sherds; 2 rim sherds and 1 wall-sherd and other sherds of Beakers. The base sherd and 3 wall sherds are all decorated. 1 wall-sherd has incised decoration.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Collected or excavated by J. Grahame G. Clark in summer 1931. The site known as Plantation Farm was identified in 1931 by Charles S. Leaf and Clark near Shippea Hill railway station; Clark cut a trial trench and donated the burnt assemblage of unstratified material to the Museum the same year. The site was more fully excavated by Clark under the auspices of the Fenland Research Committee in autumn 1932, the finds of which were donated to the Museum in 1933.
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, Plate XLIV nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10. Plate XLV nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, and 19. Plate XLVI nos 20, 23, and 24.
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)
One body sherd of coarse, light grey fabric, decorated on the exterior with horizontal zones of deep fingernail impressions separated by a horizontally incised line.
Event Date 12/1/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:327928

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