Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch of square headed (panelled) type with lappet projections (a feature of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire). Foot and head plates decorated with border of inclined dot design. Foot in antiquity and riveted . Foot broken. Now missing
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 9 with 1948.1333 A; 1948.1334 and 32 beads. Excavated in 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. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch. Rectangular headplate decorated with punchmarks around the outside perimeter and raised square central panel. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Half-oval flat panel with rectangular lappets; top of foot decorated with transverse grooved lines, rest of foot missing but remains of a copper alloy rivet suggest that it was broken and repaired in antiquity. Pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 16/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe