Accession No
1948.1376
Description
Gilt square-headed brooch. Down biting animals heads below bar. Two round discs on head plate, one on bow and one on foot. Lobes and foot decorated with grotesque masks. On one foot it has been decorated with enamel (red and green).
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1376
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze; Enamel
Local Term
Measurements
75mm x 140mm
Events
Context (References)
(Bib): Campbell, J. (ed.) 1982. The Anglo-Saxons. Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd. Fig. 25
Event Date 1982
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (CMS Context)
Found: Grave 40, 1851, with two cruciform fibulae one pair of wrist clasps and 12 beads.
2nd Half 6 Century AD
Ref. Plate: VI Centre [in Braybrooke, R.C. Neville, Saxon obsequies (London: J. Murray, 1852)].
Event Date 25/3/1987
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Gilt square headed brooch. Down biting animals heads below bar. Two round discs on head plate, one on bow and one on foot. Lobes and foot decorated with grotesque masks. On one foot it has been decorated with enamel (red and green); Z oomorph
Event Date 25/3/1987
Author: maa
FM:15866
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