Context (Display)
Much of this has been mounted on perspex but there are additional fragments in a box.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
These seem to have been ornamenting a wooden canopy or some such thing attached to the bier and had collapsed onto the broken pottery at the side
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Display)
Display label for 1953.21 B[.1-3] reads: 'Strips of embossed bronze and bronze rosettes together with flat bronze rivets. These pieces seem to have been mounted on wood and may have ornamented a canopy over the funeral couch or litter on which the cremated human bones lay. They were found scattered among the pottery.'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

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)
Description for 1953.21 B[.1-3]: 'Strips of bronze and two iron nails. Also nails for fixing and two iron nails. Additional fragments. Strip bordered with repousse dots, and with alternate embossed and applied rosettes with a central boss and concentric rings'.
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 (Unpublished PhD thesis).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)
Strips of copper alloy, nine copper alloy rosettes, and two iron nails for fixing, possibly used as ornamentation for a burial canopy. The copper alloy strips are bordered with repousse dots, and are decorated with embossed rosettes with a central boss and concentric rings.
Event Date 16/6/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff