Accession No
1948.1341
Description
Copper alloy tweezers made from one piece of metal. Loop at one end that curves round and becomes two straight arms that curve inwards at the ends. Decorated at the base of the loop with three transverse lines.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1341
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
69mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Grave 13, with two urns full of burnt bones and part of a bone comb. 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)
Pair of tweezers. Parallel grooves just below looped end
Event Date 31/3/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy tweezers made from one piece of metal. Loop at one end that curves round and becomes two straight arms that curve inwards at the ends. Decorated at the base of the loop with three transverse lines.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:15893
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