Context (Field collection)
Brooch has been drilled on reverse of bow for metal analysis. The date and results of analysis are unknown.
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Square headed, gilded, brooch. Grotesque faces on lappets and foot. In 4 pieces. Iron pin missing. Kentish influence seen in Z oomorphic design of head plate.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 6, 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. II (No.6)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'In two pieces; one half consists of two pieces stuck together. One lappet is now missing.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Cast gilt copper alloy square headed brooch. The rectangular headplate is decorated with style 1 zoomorphic ornament in low-relief; projections around the edge of the headplate including two bird's heads in profile. Short low-arched bow with two longitudinal panels of relief ornament. The flat panel is highly decorated around a cruciform raised area. The lappets are human masks. The detached foot is formed of a human mask, flaring to a flat terminal. On the reverse, the remains of the pin bar lug are present alongside iron corrosion. The catchplate is missing. Evidence of possible historic repair with sheet metal riveted through the foot. Three fragments; two glued together, one detached but present.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe