Description (Physical description)
Large cruciform fibulae with detachable side knobs, the head knob being cast in one with the bow. Bronze with iron pin. Side knobs attached by extension of the spring bar. Panelled head plate. Plain horse head foot. Engraved circlets outline headplate. Undamaged
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 31, with 35 beads. Excavated in 1851.

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. VII (No.31)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
An early example.
Event Date 1948
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Kate Sutton: 'Side knobs are mounted on perspex.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy cruciform brooch. Square central panel and waisted wings; decorated with punchmarks. Half round top knob and detachable side knobs, detached but present. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Rectangular flat panel; top of foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines. Horse head terminal with triangular eyes and grooved nostrils. Pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe