Context (Related Documents)
For photocopies of Lethbridge's Burwell excavation notes, drawings, etc. see WO8/1/1 in Archive.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Field collection)
Found in Grave 90, of a young person, beside the left hip, with an iron spoon in an Anglo Saxon cemetery; Excavated by Lethbridge.T.C in 1928

Event Date 1928
Author: maa

Context (References)
1929. Lethbridge, T.C. The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Burwell. Cambs. Part IV. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol XXX, pp. 97-109.
Event Date 1929
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1931). 'Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, n.s. 3. pp.47-70, Fig. 30 item 4.
Event Date 1931
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Large 'purse mount' or strike a light
Event Date 7/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron strike a light or purse comprising of a flat triangular central rod with inwardly curved sides; one side is missing significant material. Corroded; iron delaminating. Four fragments detached but present.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt