Accession No
1948.1469 B
Description
Cast copper alloy small long brooch. Square headplate with three perforated circular holes, decorated at each outer edge with three grooved lines; flat rectangular side and top knobs. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Rectangular flat panel with heavily worn lappets. Tapering to a tri-lobed, possibly zoomorphic terminal. On reverse, sections of pin bar lug and catchplate present.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1469 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
68mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Small, circular red sticker adhered to reverse.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch. 3 perforations in head plate. Very worn. Side lappets. Curious foot: trilobe. Cross pattee decoration; Very Much Worn.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851 from grave 182. Found with an iron ring; 2 pairs of wrist clasps; 42 beads.
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. Pl X (no. 182)
Event Date 1852
Author: Annie Tomkins
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'Not unlike one from Holywell Row.'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch. Square headplate with three perforated circular holes, decorated at each outer edge with three grooved lines; flat rectangular side and top knobs. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Rectangular flat panel with heavily worn lappets. Tapering to a tri-lobed, possibly zoomorphic terminal. On reverse, sections of pin bar lug and catchplate present.
Event Date 18/12/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:15846
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