Context (Field collection)
These seem to be decorations mounted on wood or leather forming part of the bier and some had collapsed across the mouth of the bronze bowl (1952.20) and have been mounted in the position found
Event Date
Author: maa

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)
Rosettes with binding and wedge shaped bronze pins. More fragments of bronze.
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.
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Spratling, Mansel. (1972). Southern British Decorated Bronzes of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age. (Unpublished PhD thesis). University of London Institute of Archaeology. p. 595, no. 445
Event Date 1972
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

Description (Physical description)
Fragments of copper alloy fittings, likely from the mouth of a bowl. There are eight rosette fittings, which are pins with a large circular head with concentric circle decoration. The rest are thin bars with a D cross-section, some of which also have pin shafts in the back.
Event Date 16/6/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Display)
Display label affixed to the object's perspex mount reads: 'Bowl of spun bronze, probably imported. The bronze rosettes and strips lay across the mouth of this bowl.'
Event Date 16/6/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff