Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 18048: 'Bowl with 2 triangular ears. Complete but badly damaged, particularly in the lower parts. The base has been mended with a patch (this is missing) in antiquity, - apparentally roughly rivetted on with ?folded sheet-metal clips, through oblong slit holes.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Labelled in black ink: 'Girton Gr.56'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Found together / assemblage)
As noted by Jenkinson in PCAS, vol. 5(2): 'When this basin was lifted afterwards, a layer of bracken fern, on which it had been laid, was clearly visible, some of the fronds having been preserved by the superincumbent metal. A photograph was taken, but was not very successful.'
Event Date 19/9/1881
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
From Jenkinson's excavation notebook (GO3/5/1), page headed September 19: 'About 18 inches NE of the bucket occurred a bronze basin ([blank] in. across [blank] in. deep) with flat rim and two ears for handles, perfect enough except the bottom which was much destroyed.'

NB. This grave is not explicitly given a number, but the notes for it lie between Grave 55 and Grave 57.
Event Date 19/9/1881
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Excavated: Girton College, grave 56
Event Date 19/9/1881
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Jenkinson, Francis. (1884). ‘Report and Communications’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 5(2). pp. li-lii
Event Date 1884
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: 'Found when sorting mediaeval cupboard, 1976 with paper label Barrington: No clue as to when excavated.'
In second hand, red biro: 'Exactly corresponds to description of missing bowl from Girton grave 56 in Jenkinson' s MS. notes. Paper Barrington label could have fallen in from elsewhere! MDC July 1976'

Event Date 7/1976
Author: maa

Conservation ()
80.61 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Globular bowl of sheet copper alloy with everted rim and two integrated, pierced triangular tabs ('ears') for suspension. A large section of the base is missing, and there are copper alloy tabs inserted through slits indicating a contemporary repair. Reconstructed from fragments using resin.
Event Date 7/12/2020
Author: Katrina Dring