Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch of trefoil type, with bifid lobes and foot plate. Iron pin still in position. Panelled head plate. Lappets below bow. Late example of type. Incised decoration round foot, head panel and along lobes
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 9. Excavated 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 (5 d, No.9)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long cruciform brooch. Raised square central panel decorated with punchmarks; bifurcated half-crescent side and top flat knobs with lines of punchmarks through the centre of each one. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Flat panel with flat lappets decorated with punchmarks. Foot decorated with transverse grooved lines; bifurcated half crescent terminal decorated with punchmarks. Pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe