Accession No

1948.1351 B


Description

Copper alloy small long brooch. Rectangular headplate with three protruding T-shaped flat knobs, each with punchmarks along the outer edge. Arched bow with two longitudinal rows of punchmarks along the centre. Rectangular lappets also decorated with a longitudinal row of punchmarks along both edges, damaged at the bottom. Flat panel decorated with transverse lines and grooves. Semicircular terminal with punchmarks along all three edges. Pin bar lug intract, half of catchplate missing.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon 6th century ?c 650


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1351 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

35mm x 83mm


Events

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card: 'had sample of cloth attached.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
Grave 32, 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


Context (Analysis)
Leeds' 'cross potent' type small long brooch.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
[One of] a pair of small long brooch of Leeds' 'cross potent' type. Side lappets, crescentic foot plate. Iron pin missing
Event Date 26/3/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy small long brooch. Rectangular headplate with three protruding T-shaped flat knobs, each with punchmarks along the outer edge. Arched bow with two longitudinal rows of punchmarks along the centre. Rectangular lappets also decorated with a longitudinal row of punchmarks along both edges, damaged at the bottom. Flat panel decorated with transverse lines and grooves. Semicircular terminal with punchmarks along all three edges. Pin bar lug intract, half of catchplate missing.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


Context (Analysis)
1948.1351 A and 1948.1351 B are likely a pair.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett


FM:15883

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