Accession No
1948.1474
Description
D-shaped copper alloy buckle frame. The frame has a circular cross section and is thicker at the front and thinner along the bar at the back. Pin missing.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1474
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
24mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card records: "Neville labels this buckle as from grave 101 but in description of the grave says 'Fragments of bronze, apparently of tweezers.' There is no trace of such fragments"
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Grave 101. Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: maa
Context (References)
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.
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
Part of a small buckle.
Event Date 9/3/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
D-shaped copper alloy buckle frame. The frame has a circular cross section and is thicker at the front and thinner along the bar at the back. Pin missing.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:15836
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