Description (Physical description)
Record for 1893.60: 'Large, triangular comb. Decorated with incised lines and dot and ring.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 16246: 'Comb + glass fragments'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
Although the Accession Register original gave the date of discovery at 1880, this was later struck through. The more likely date of discovery is 1881, the year that Francis Jenkinson excavated the cemetery at Girton College.
Event Date 1881
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The Accession Register entry for Z 16246 notes that the comb and glass fragments are 'from an urn near Gr[ave] 8'.
Event Date 1881
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
1893 Accession Register notes: 'Found in one of the urns from Girton College 1880' [sic - 1881]
Event Date 1881
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1893.60[.1-3]: 'A large triangular comb, decorated with incised lines and dot and ring ornamentation and several fragments of others.'
Event Date 1893
Author: Lucie Carreau

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

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Accession Register entry for Z 16246 gives Francis Jenkinson as the collector. He has therefore been added to the Source field.
Event Date 18/3/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Half of a triangular-backed, composite, single-sided bone comb. The tops of the toothplates project above the triangular connecting plate, and have curved notches and grooved decoration. Both faces of the comb have triangular backs, attached by iron rivets, with clustered ring-and-dot motif and a two-line incised border. The endplate projects beyond the triangular back, with a curved top. 28 teeth are present. Cracks radiate from all the iron rivets, with considerable iron staining.
Event Date 17/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt