Accession No
1948.1476
Description
Cast copper alloy cruciform brooch. Rectangular central panel surmounted by a half round top knob. Two rectangular wings with protruding half round side knobs, one missing. Arched bow with longitudinal central groove and rectangular section areas at the top and bottom. Broken and missing below the bow. Brooch melted and bent, pin bar lug broken.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon ?early 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1476
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
59mm
Events
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card: 'An early type. ?Early 6 Century AD'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851. Found in urn.
Event Date 1851
Author: maa
Context (Analysis)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
Head plate and bow of a cruciform brooch with detachable side knobs and panelled head plate. Right hand side knob held in position by iron pin through spinning coil. Plate partly fused by heat.
Event Date 9/3/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy cruciform brooch. Rectangular central panel surmounted by a half round top knob. Two rectangular wings with protruding half round side knobs, one missing. Arched bow with longitudinal central groove and rectangular section areas at the top and bottom. Broken and missing below the bow. Brooch melted and bent, pin bar lug broken.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:15835
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