Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with Z 21435: 'Grave 5. (with ear-scoops and tweezers on ring)'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Wooden bucket with bronze mounts. Fragment of iron handle survives. Partially restored
Event Date
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. Plate VI,2.
Event Date 1925
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Stave-built wooden bucket with copper alloy mounts. About half of the wooden staves survive, each with chamfered top edges. The staves are supported by four flat sheet copper alloy hoops decorated with repousse dot ornament; there are two copper alloy uprights decorated with semicircular punchmarks, each overlapping the rim which is formed of a separate 'U' shaped piece of copper alloy sheet reinforced with riveted rim clips. The two handle mounts are bifurcated with animal head terminals; decorated with grooved lines and semicircular punchmarks. One of the handle mounts has the remains of an iron handle through the loop. Part of the iron handle survives; circular in cross section. The bucket has been partially reconstructed.
Event Date 26/11/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Exhibition (Spotlight Gallery)
EXH.2022.11 | Spotlight on Stores Move
Event Date 25/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Displayed as part of the Spotlight on Stores Move exhibition. Caption provided by Lily Pencliffe: 'There’s a hole in my bucket. My imagination is still rattling around inside this Early Medieval bucket. Why was it buried beside someone 1,500 years ago? I love objects like these because they hold on to people’s stories; how they’ve made sense of the world. It reminds me that there are so many ways to be.'
Event Date 4/2023
Author: Katrina Dring