Accession No

1948.1339 C


Description

Cast copper alloy ring of round cross-section. Slightly thicker on one side.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1339 C


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

17mm x 17mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Small ring
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 10, 1851.
The catalogue card records: " Neville says that three small rings were found but numbers all these four as from grave 10" .
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: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy ring of round cross-section. Slightly thicker on one side.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:15898

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