Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Bronze gilt disc with cast pattern, a cross divides the field into 4 panels bearing scroll work. Bought Morley. Freeman coll. C.A.S. A.R. 1901.385, 386 [sic - AR 1900.385-6]. Appendix I.'
Event Date
Author: maa

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object, now partially missing, reads: '[1899].109 a. [Cam]bridge Town [S]ewer excavation 1... (Freman Collection) Camb: Ant: Soc...'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Cambridge Town sewer excavation, 1895
[Note: Fox gives the date of the sewer excavation as 1905, which must be a typo given the accession date. Imogen Gunn 9/3/2021]
Event Date 1895
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Disc Brooch. A cast pattern; a cross divides the field into 4 panels bearing scroll work.
Event Date 1899
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Annual Report for 1899.109 A-C: 'Three bronze discs: one, face bears in relief a recumbent animal (diameter 1"7); one gilt, decorated with a cross and scrolls (diameter 2"); and one with a central boss and perforated rim.'
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Accessions Register: 'A bronze gilt disk with cast pattern, a cross divides the field into four panel which bear scroll work'.
Event Date 1901
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1938). ‘Anglo-Saxon Remains’, in L. F. Salzman (ed.), The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and The Isle of Ely, Vol. 1. London: Oxford University Press. p. 324, Pl. XII.c
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. pp. 297-298. pl. XXXIV no. 6.
Event Date 1923
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Smith, Reginald A. (1925). 'Examples of Anglian Art.' Archaeolgia, vol. 74. p. 245, Fig. 17
Event Date 1925
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Exhibited in ‘Art in the Dark Ages in Europe’, Case A, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1930.
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Burlington Fine Arts Club. (1930). Catalogue of an Exhibition of Art in the Dark Ages in Europe (circa 400-1000 A.D.). London: Burlington Fine Arts Club.
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
Fox (1923) and Lethbridge (1938) identify this as the central pin-head of a group of three linked pins. It may be that 1899.109 B and C are the other two pin heads, but this needs study.
Event Date 9/3/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
A gilt copper alloy disc, probably the central pin-head from a set of linked pins, with cast pattern, a cross divides the field into four panel which bear scroll work.
Event Date 9/3/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
A gilt copper alloy disc with cast pattern. A cross divides the disc into four panels, two with round scroll motifs and two with square scroll motifs. Central circle with a perforation at the centre, and three perforation holes around the edge near three prongs of the cross, possibly a fourth perforation which has broken through. Some loss from the edge and centre of the disc. Possibly the central pin-head from a set of linked pins or a disc brooch.
Event Date 11/5/2021
Author: Emily Shorter