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 92, lying against the right arm, with an iron knife, Anglo Saxon cemetery; Excavated by Lethbridge.T.C in 1928: All this skeleton, save the head, shoulders and right arm had been dug away, probably during agricultural operations. By good fortune the bronze buckle and counter plate and an iron knife had been lying against the right arm and had escaped destruction.

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 2.
Event Date 1931
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Buckle with triangular counter plate
Event Date 7/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Undecorated copper alloy buckle and connecting plate. The buckle [.1] has an oval frame, closed loop pin, upperplate and underplate with frame recesses which is riveted together by two rivets. The connecting plate [.2] is flat and trapezoidal in shape with an oval hole and three rivet holes; one rivet intact.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt