Description (Physical description)
Large square headed, gilded brooch with Iron Pin. Decorated with very debased Z oomorphic designs. Right hand tip of head plate broken.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Grave 3. 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. I (no. 3)
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Right hand edge of head plate has been glued back on, and reinforced with perspex.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Cast gilt copper alloy square headed brooch. Rectangular headplate with rectangular central panel; narrow pointed ovals extend from the top corners of the central panel to the top corners of the headplate. The headplate is decorated with low-relief human masks. Low-arched bow divided into two panels of low-relief ornament with a central circular boss. Cruciform foot with central circular boss, human mask lappets and human mask terminal. Double pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse. Corner of headplate previously detached but now restored.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe