Accession No

1948.1332 C.1-3


Description

A copper alloy toilet set comprised of an ear scoop (.1) and two tooth picks (.2-.3) upon a wire ring with slip knot. The ear scoop (.1) features an oval-profile curved scoop and undecorated flattened shaft with circular loop. The two tooth picks have flattened shafts and circular loops; (.2) is broken through the loop and shaft and (.3) shaft is broken near loop.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1332 C.1-3


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
Grave 7, excavated in 1851.

Event Date 1851
Author: maa


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. XI, No. 7.
Event Date 1852
Author: Jane Pettitt


Description (CMS Description)
Toilet implements on a twisted bronze ring. One pick has a scoop and is an ear pick. The other two have pointed ends. One of the straight implements is broken.

Event Date 1/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'The other pointed end implement is also broken, both pieces are present'.
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Jane Pettitt


Description (Physical description)
A copper alloy toilet set comprised of an ear scoop (.1) and two tooth picks (.2-.3) upon a wire ring with slip knot. The ear scoop (.1) features an oval-profile curved scoop and undecorated flattened shaft with circular loop. The two tooth picks have flattened shafts and circular loops; (.2) is broken through the loop and shaft and (.3) shaft is broken near loop.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt


FM:15914

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