Object

Accession No

1948.1456 D

Description

Hook-piece from a copper alloy cast wrist clasp; one half of a pair. Decorated with ribbed central bar between three rectangular bosses; pierced circular protrusions from bosses act as sewing holes. Hook, and one pierced protrusion, intact; another pierced protrusion broken through the loop, the third is 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

1948.1456 D

Cultural Affliation

Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze

Local Term

Measurements

32mm

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. (Not illustrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'Similar in type to a pair from Girton, [see] Maureen O'Reilly 'Girton Cemetery', Plate 1'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Half a pair of wrist clasps similar to 1948.1456 C. One attachment lug broken.
Event Date 9/3/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Hook-piece from a copper alloy cast wrist clasp; one half of a pair. Decorated with ribbed central bar between three rectangular bosses; pierced circular protrusions from bosses act as sewing holes. Hook, and one pierced protrusion, intact; another pierced protrusion broken through the loop, the third is missing.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

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