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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