Description (Labels & Markings)
Half a red circular stick affixed to object.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: 'GROUP A GIRTON 1886'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Baron Anatole von Hügel and Walter Kidman Foster. Exhumed with a number of skeletons at Girton College May and June 1886. Grave Group A.
Event Date 1886
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 18, Pl. III
[Note: The plate lists these as Group C, but the text as Group A, the latter of which appears to be correct]
Event Date 1925
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Disc Brooch.
Event Date 17/9/1986
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Z 42322 is its pair.
Event Date 17/9/1986
Author: maa

Context (References)
White, Roger. (1990). 'Scrap or Substitute: Roman Material in Anglo-Saxon Graves' in Southworth, Edmund (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: A Reappraisal. Stroud: Sutton. p. 127
Event Date 1990
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Object is a penannular brooch. The iron pin is corroded.'
Event Date 28/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy penannular brooch with part of a corroded iron pin. Flat cross section with scrolled terminals. One face is decorated with faint punchmarks. Part of one arm previously detached but now reattached.
Event Date 19/11/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe