Accession No
1936.794 A.1
Description
Iron double cleat from a bed burial. Two rectangular plates, one with with flared terminals, the other with rounded terminals, held together with an iron bolt at either end. One rounded end has broken away and is missing. Mineralised wood on interior plates and bolts.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Shudy Camps
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1936.794 A.1
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron; Mineralised wood
Local Term
Measurements
83mm
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Five double cleats were referenced in the publication, but only two complete and one incomplete cleats remain.
Event Date 1933
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps cemetery, grave 24 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. p. 8
Event Date 1936
Author: Sam Daisley
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1936.794 [A-D]: 'Iron plates and strips, etc, probably part of the fittings of a coffin'
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa
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. p. 380, Table 5.6.
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Iron double cleat from a bed burial. Two rectangular plates, one with with flared terminals, the other with rounded terminals, held together with an iron bolt at either end. One rounded end has broken away and is missing. Mineralised wood on interior plates and bolts.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:16241
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