Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch of Leeds' ' cross potent' type with modified crescentic foot. The square plate of head, arms of cross and foot are bordered with double scollop engraving. One arm is damaged.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 6, with gilt square leaded brooch and a heavy bronze ring. 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. Pl. I (No.6)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Part of the foot is also damaged.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long cruciform brooch. Square headplate decorated with punchmarks on four sides; flat rectangular top and side knobs with punchmarks on outer edge, one side knob mostly missing. Elongated low-arched bow with rectangular section areas. The foot is decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a rounded terminal decorated with punchmarks; part of terminal missing. On the reverse are the remains of the pin bar lug and catchplate.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe