Accession No
1948.1356
Description
Cast bronze button or stud decorated with concentric circles. Single pierced lug on reverse.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1356
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
23mm x 23mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Cast bronze button or stud with perforated shank. Decorated with concentric circle moulding.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 33, 1851, with 1948.1355 A-B and 9 beads.
Event Date 1851
Author: Lily Stancliffe
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. Pl.XV (No.33)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast bronze button or stud decorated with concentric circles. Single pierced lug on reverse.
Event Date 18/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:15874
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