Context (Analysis)
?Frankish.
The catalogue card records: "Compare Bifrous Kent. Probably imported from Kent, or Continent (Frankish type)"
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Small gilt bronze brooch with semi circular head with three knobs. Knobbed sub triangular foot plate. Arched bow. Decorated with geometric patterns including spiral on the head plate. Iron Pin missing
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Grave 10, 1851, with a similar brooch, 52 beads, 3 small bronze rings, 1 large bronze ring.
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. II (No.10)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cast gilt copper alloy radiate-headed brooch; rounded triangular headplate with circular projections at side and top, decorated with scrolled ornament. High-arched bow decorated with two broad longitudinal grooved lines. Lozengiform foot decorated with grooved lines; small integral circular lappets; tri-lobed terminal. Catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe