Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found on the bier beside the cremated bones as though it had fastened the mouth of a bag containing the cremation.
Event Date 17/05/1952
Author: Eleanor WIlkinson

Context (Field collection)
Found in a Belgic chieftain's grave when laying a drain. Excavated by Thomas Lethbridge on 17 May 1952. Grid reference TL 52/645674.
Event Date 17/5/1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
The hooped part and the tongue are of cast bronze. The belt plate is of sheet bronze and attached to the smaller back plate by four bronze rivets with domed heads. The tongue is hinged on an iron pin. One rivet missing, restored.

Event Date 1953
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
There is a sketch diagram on the catalogue card.
Event Date 1953
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1954). 'Burial of an Iron Age Warrior at Snailwell'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 47. pp. 25-37. p. 31. fig. 2 no. 9.
Event Date 1954
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Stead, I.M. (1967). ‘A La Tène III Burial at Welwyn Garden City’. Archaeologia, vol. 101. pp. 1-61
Event Date 1967
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Also piece of ?leather from inside the buckle, which has been given this idno.
Event Date 15/12/2000
Author: Eleanor WIlkinson

Context (Analysis)
Previously dated as Iron Age C and Gallo Belgic.
Event Date 10/6/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy buckle. D-shaped frame with a cast copper alloy pin. The belt plate comprises of two rectangular layers held together by domed head rivets, one missing, three still in place.
Event Date 20/6/2022
Author: Louise Puckett

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5608 | Remedial
Event Date 23/2/2023
Author: Kirstie French

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn