Accession No
1948.1460 B
Description
Cast copper alloy small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Trapezoidal headplate decorated with scalloped punchmarks, with flat half-crescent top and side knobs. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom decorated with punchmarks. The foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a triangular terminal decorated with punchmarks. On the reverse are the remains of the pin bar lug and catchplate. Small fragment of iron pin corroded to the 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 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
64mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Small long. Trefoil headed type. Similar to A but with larger foot. Head plate and foot outlined with crescentic engraving
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Annie Tomkins
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: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Trapezoidal headplate decorated with scalloped punchmarks, with flat half-crescent top and side knobs. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom decorated with punchmarks. The foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a triangular terminal decorated with punchmarks. On the reverse are the remains of the pin bar lug and catchplate. Small fragment of iron pin corroded to the catchplate.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:15863
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