Context (Found together / assemblage)
Note in Accession register, in later hand, notes D 1914.125-127 are 'presumably a grave group'.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Old label found with objects [D 1914.127 A] reads: 'Wrist clasps, saucer and square headed fibulae, said to be from Harlton, but probably from Haslingfield Cemet.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
A remarkably fine specimen showing the apex of development of this type.

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Author: maa

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Context (Analysis)
Brooch drilled for analysis on reverse of bow at an unknown date.
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Author: Jazmin Hundal

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Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card has the following entry: 'This and the objects described in (to D 1914.130) said to have been found at Harlton, Cambs. in 1875, by Professor Hughes (see catalogue report of T.C.L.C.) But Dr Fox considers it probable that they really came from the neighbouring village of Haslingfield"
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
In addition to the uncertainty about which site this brooch and other material from the Trinity College Loan come from, there is also uncertainty regarding the year of collection or excavation. The Annual Report and the note transcribed from the catalogue card give the year as 1875; in the Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, Fox notes that it was given to Trinity College in 1879. McKenny Hughes' own publication, 'Cambridgeshire', notes that it was found in 1879 'by Prof. Hughes in the Saxon Cemetery at Haslingfield' which should hopefully confirm the site as Haslingfield (not Harlton) and the collection date as 1879.
Event Date 1879
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Haslingfield cemetery, collected by Thomas McKenny Hughes in 1879.
Event Date 1879
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Hughes, Thomas McKenny and Hughes, Mary Caroline. (1909). Cambridge County Geographies: Cambridgeshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 150-151. (illustrated)
Event Date 1909
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Annual Report for 1914. Plate I
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 257-258, Pl. XXVIII.4
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Burlington Fine Arts Club. (1930). Catalogue of an Exhibition of Art in the Dark Ages in Europe (circa 400-1000 A.D.). London: Burlington Fine Arts Club.
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Exhibited in ‘Art in the Dark Ages in Europe’, Case A, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1930.
Event Date 1930
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Leeds, E.T. (1949). A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 62-64, 77, Illustrated (No. 98)
Event Date 1949
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Hilton, Patricia. (1961). The Cemeteries at Barrington and Haslingfield in Relation to the Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England. (Unpublished PhD thesis). University of Leeds, Leeds. 
Event Date 1961
Author: Jazmin Hundal

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Description (Physical description)
Square headed fibula, gilded bronze. Notched head plate, tri-lobed foot, clean cut birds heads under bow; all covered with zoomorphic designs. A remarkably fine specimen showing the apex of development of this type.

Event Date 13/2/1987
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Malim, Tim and Hines, John. (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire. CBA Research Report 112. York: Council for British Archaeology.
Event Date 1998
Author: Jazmin Hundal

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Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville: 'Remnant of iron pin on underside.'
Event Date 7/11/2001
Author: Jazmin Hundal

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Description (Physical description)
Square headed brooch; gilded obverse. Headplate frame notched and decorated with helmeted masks; second panel and inner panel of headplate decorated with zoomorphic designs; helmeted mask joins headplate with bow. High bow bisected by a longitudinal ridge and framed by side longitudinal ridges; bow decorated overall with circular stamps; bow terminates with an inverted helmeted mask. Biting horses form the footplate upper border; side lobes and terminal lobe feature central cylindrical perforations framed by circular lines; footplate inner panel frame decorated with zoomorphic designs and a helmeted mask. Gilt has worn off along bow and near centre of footplate; bright green patina present on reverse. Pin bar lug present on reverse but obscured by iron corrosion.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal