Accession No
1948.1315 B.1
Description
Hook-piece from a pair of sheet copper alloy wrist clasps, possibly the partner to 1948.1315 A.1-2. Rectangular, with three sewing holes close to the rear edge. Rear edge damaged.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1315 B.1
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
39mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1948.1315 B[.1-2]: 'A pair of wrist clasps of sheet bronze. One half stamped with three rows of boss design'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Grave 158, 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.
Event Date 1852
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (CMS Context)
These two pairs (1948.1315 A-B) are numbered as from grave 158 in Braybrooke Collection, but Illustration R.C. Neville ' Saxon Obsequies' [Braybrooke, R.C. Neville, Saxon obsequies (London: J. Murray, 1852)] Pl. 12. No 158 does not correspond and only one pair is claimed to have come from this grave
Event Date 2/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'One wrist clasp is very fragmentary.'
Event Date 22/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Hook-piece from a pair of sheet copper alloy wrist clasps, possibly the partner to 1948.1315 A.1-2. Rectangular, with three sewing holes close to the rear edge. Rear edge damaged.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:15935
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