Description (Labels & Markings)
Small, circular red sticker adhered to reverse.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
One of a pair of small long brooch of square headed (panelled) type. Expanded foot. Down drooping bird head lappets. There is a moulded ridge across base of foot. Iron pins missing. Engraved along edge of head plate and foot with circlets.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851 from grave 33. Grave 33 also contained: 1948.1356 and 9 beads; 1948.1355 A; 1948.1355 B and 1948.1356.
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. Pl. V (No.33)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy, square headed small long brooch. Rectangular headplate with square central panel and rectangular wings, decorated with circular punchmarks along the outer edges. High-ached bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Down drooping bird head lappets. Foot decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a triangular terminal with circular punch marks and moulded ridge at the base. On reverse, catchplate and pin bar lug present. Pitted surface.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Annie Tomkins