Object

Accession No

1948.1456 B

Description

Buckle with iron trapezoid frame. Plate, possibly of copper alloy, folded over bar; broken, but fused together. Pin intact and fused to frame. Heavily corroded, two iron rivets still in place.

Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill

Period

Anglo Saxon

Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1948.1456 B

Cultural Affliation

Material

Metal; Iron; ?Copper alloy; ?Bronze

Local Term

Measurements

38mm

Events

Context (Field collection)
Grave 168 (1948.1453 - 1948.1456). Excavated 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. Pl. XL, no. 118.
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (CMS Description)
Iron buckle with ?bronze rectangular plate. 2 rivets.
Event Date 9/3/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Buckle with iron trapezoid frame. Plate, possibly of copper alloy, folded over bar; broken, but fused together. Pin intact and fused to frame. Heavily corroded, two iron rivets still in place.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Other)
Catalogue card notes 'Wrongly numbered 118 in plate 40, Saxon Obsequies', but it does appear to match that illustration.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

FM:15858