Accession No
1948.1353 B
Description
Thick copper alloy ring. Circular cross-section, interior edge slightly indented in two opposite areas.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1353 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
18mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Grave 32. Neville says 2 rings were found. (C traced to grave 166). 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 illustrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
Small ring of thick oval section
Event Date 26/3/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Thick copper alloy ring. Circular cross-section, interior edge slightly indented in two opposite areas.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:15879
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