Accession No
1906.299
Description
Cast copper alloy oblong buckle plate. Comprising of a rectangular pin slot, four rivet holes, with two rivet holes in-situ, and an off-centre larger hole. Decorated by a central embossed S within a sunken rectangle, and bands of ring and dot punchmarks along short edges between rivets and triangular punchmarks along long edges between rivets.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Girton; Girton College
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Jenkinson, Francis John Henry [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1906.299
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
21mm x 25mm
Events
Context (Display)
Label found with the objects (1906.299, 1906.300 and 1906.301) reads; 'Ap.9. found in urn along with very beautiful pair of tweezers. [other hand] ?1906.299-301. ?Z 16248'
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (Field collection)
Grave 15, with skeleton of a child, 9 April 1881
Event Date 9/4/1881
Author: maa
Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pl. IV.2a
Event Date 1925
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Stout oblong belt plate, with 5 perforations (2 bearing flat-headed studs); a nick on the other side is decorated with a marginal line, scalloped bands and a sunk central panel bearing an S-like device.
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy oblong buckle plate. Comprising of a rectangular pin slot, four rivet holes, with two rivet holes in-situ, and an off-centre larger hole. Decorated by a central embossed S within a sunken rectangle, and bands of ring and dot punchmarks along short edges between rivets and triangular punchmarks along long edges between rivets.
Event Date 23/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (Other)
Hollingworth and O'Reilly incorrectly give the grave as Grave 8 (see Plat IV), but it is illustrated in Jenkinson's excavation notebook (GO3/5/1) under Grave 15.
Event Date 26/11/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:8993
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