Context (Analysis)
Late 5 Century AD -Early 6 Century AD
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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. Left side of head plate damaged. Engraved circlets outline head plate
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 31, with 35 beads, 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.
Event Date 1852
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 with square central panel and waisted wings, part of one wing missing; 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