Accession No
1948.1460 A
Description
Cast copper alloy small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Square headplate with flat half-crescent top and side knobs; decorated with circular punchmarks along outer edge. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. The foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a triangular terminal decorated with circular punchmarks. On the reverse are the remains of the pin bar lug and catchplate.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1460 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
63mm
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
The catalogue card notes: '?Found with 1948.1459 but labels had come adrift in Braybrooke Collection'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Small triangular foot crescentic lobes on head plate outlined with dots. Part of iron coil spring adhering.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
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. (Not illutstrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Iron coil spring no longer present.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Square headplate with flat half-crescent top and side knobs; decorated with circular punchmarks along outer edge. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. The foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a triangular terminal decorated with circular punchmarks. On the reverse are the remains of the pin bar lug and catchplate.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:15862
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