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 a bronze buckle, 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)
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
Event Date 1931
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Tanged Knife. Tang missing.

Event Date 7/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron knife; straight cutting edge and slight curved blade back. Tang and blade tip is missing. Corroded; iron delaminating.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt