Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'GIRTON COLLEGE' and in the corner 'O'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1886.31.2 [A-D] reads: 'A pair of tweezers, a buckle, two pairs of clasps (bronze').
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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)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1886.31.2 [A-D]: 'Three single wrist clasps, and one thin, plain wrist clasp, not similar to the others.'
Event Date 28/3/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
A pair of copper alloy tweezers. Slightly flaring arms, with ends bent inwards, squared shoulders and loop with two longitudinal grooves. Faint decoration on one side: transverse double lines above shoulder containing circular punchmarks, then a longitudinal rectangle extending to the arm mid-point containing circular punchmarks. Corroded, buckled and distorted.
Event Date 19/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt