Accession No
1948.1312
Description
Copper alloy flat annular brooch. Decorated with groups of two transverse grooved lines. Frame with pin hole; pin missing, though small fragment of iron remains.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1312
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
39mm x 39mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Annular brooch. Decorated with two groups of parallel grooves at the junction of the pin. Iron pin missing.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Excavated from grave 171 in 1851. Two annular brooches were found 1948.1307-1311.
Event Date 1851
Author: Annie Tomkins
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. (Not illustrated).
Event Date 1852
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy flat annular brooch. Decorated with groups of two transverse grooved lines. Frame with pin hole; pin missing, though small fragment of iron remains.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:15954
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