Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 16479 A-C: 'A: Combs = fragmentary. B. Iron fragments. C. Glass fragments'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Related Documents)
Note in Francis Jenkinson's hand reads: 'Knife from no. 20. Comb and tweezers from urn with fused stuff' and in a later hand 'bone needle'.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 16479 A-[D]: 'Combs & iron fragments & bronze glass frag.'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Related Documents)
Note with object in Cyril Fox's handwriting reads: 'Range of combs, Girton (Cowles) keeps. Saxon.' Similar notes have been found with the date 1920.
Event Date 1920
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

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: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (CMS Description)
'5 fragments, plus a few loose comb teeth. S-J Harknett 9/5/2001'
Event Date 16/9/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Five fragments from three or more bone combs, and five loose comb teeth. Two pieces from a double-sided composite bone comb, one of which is attached to a central strengthening bar with iron rivet still in place; another of the fragments likely comes from this same central strengthening bar. Another fragment is a toothplate from a single-sided composite comb, and the last an endplate with a rounded terminal.
Event Date 1/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Analysis)
The note in Jenkinson's hand found with Z 16479 refers to a 'knife', which may actually be the shears (Z 16479 B.3). The 'comb' may be one of Z 16749 A, and the 'fused stuff' could refer to Z 16479 C.1 and/or Z 16479 C.2. The needle is not part of this accession number.
Event Date 1/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff