Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1886.31.1 [A-H] reads: 'Two circular and five cross-shaped fibulae, a girdle hanger'.

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated and Collected by: Hugel.Baron.Anatole.von; Foster.W.K; Exhumed with number of skeletons at Girton College May and June 1886
Event Date 1886
Author: maa

Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Plate XXVII, Figure 2: Girton.


Event Date 1923
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1886.31.1 A-B: 'The two circular brooches have a design of five dots.'
Event Date 28/3/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy disc brooch. Central dot, pierced through the brooch, surrounded by four dots, two also piercing the surface; a line of crescent punchmarks follow the edge of the brooch. Pin bar lug and catch plate to the reverse; corroded, attached, iron pin and possible mineralised textile. Small nick in outer edge.
Event Date 18/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt