Description (Physical description)
Description for 1936.793 [A-G]: 'Iron strips, twisted bars, staples, etc., the fittings of a bedstead'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps cemetery, Grave 29 bed burial. Excavated by T.C. Lethbridge in 1933.
Event Date 1933
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1936). A Cemetery At Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire. Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Quarto Publications. New Series, V. Fig 5
Event Date 1936
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1936.793 [A-G]: 'Iron fittings of bedsted.'
Event Date 1936
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (References)
Speake, George. (1989). A Saxon Bed Burial on Swallowcliffe Down. English Heritage Archaeological Report No. 10. London: HBMCE.
Event Date 1989
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Evans, C., Lucy, S. and Patten, R. (2018). 'Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement'. In Riversides: Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. pp. 326, 380. Fig 5.11. Table 5.6.
Event Date 2018
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Found together / assemblage)
1936.793 A-G are all components of the bed structure accompanying grave 29, they originally shared a record but have now been given individual records and suffixes. 1936.793 H is a copper alloy pin found in the same grave, it is uncertain whether this ever formed part of the museum's collection.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Two quadrant-curved iron headstays from a bed burial made from square-sectioned iron bar which has been twisted in opposite directions from either end. Bifurcated terminals at either end; curved on one end to attach to the side planks of the structure and splayed on the other to secure the headboard. A.1 has rivet holes in the terminals that would have clasped the side planks and remains of one rivet. A.2 is missing most of the side plank terminals.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe