Accession No
1948.1336
Description
Cast copper alloy radiate-headed brooch; circular head with trefoil projections at sides and top. Three semicircles hang from the border below the top knob with parallel curved grooves beneath. High-arched bow decorated with longitudinal grooved lines. Lozengiform foot with missing terminal; pierced round lappets, broken through the thin edges. Double pin bar lugs present on reverse with remains of corroded iron bar.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon 6th century
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1336
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
30mm x 70mm Weight 16.1kg
Events
Description (Physical description)
The catalogue card records: " Neville says this brooch was silvered but no trace remains" .
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Brooch with semi circular head. Triangular foot with open work edge. Kentish type (ultimately Frankish type). Iron pin missing. Head decorated with three knobbed projections. Simple linear decoration
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 10, 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. IX (No.10)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy radiate-headed brooch; circular head with trefoil projections at sides and top. Three semicircles hang from the border below the top knob with parallel curved grooves beneath. High-arched bow decorated with longitudinal grooved lines. Lozengiform foot with missing terminal; pierced round lappets, broken through the thin edges. Double pin bar lugs present on reverse with remains of corroded iron bar.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:15903
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