Context (Display)
Mounted on perspex for display with handwritten label reading: 'Grave 11. 1948.1340'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Grave 11. 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. Pl. IX (no. 11)
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card notes: 'For description of Type see Camulodumm P 312. Developed from La Tene brooches.'
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Bow fibula of a type common. Solid catch plate, fourntum spring. Ribbon bow decorated with grooves along each edge
Event Date 31/3/1987
Author: maa

Context (References)
White, Roger. (1990). 'Scrap or Substitute: Roman Material in Anglo-Saxon Graves' in Southworth, Edmund (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: A Reappraisal. Stroud: Sutton. p. 132, Fig 4.1
Event Date 1990
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy bow brooch. Long thin bow tapering to a point at the foot, the reverse of which forms the long flat catchplate, part of which is missing. The front of the bow is decorated with two longitudinal grooves along the outer edges. The spring at the top of the bow is made up of three coils, one of which curves round and forms the long narrow pin.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett