Accession No

1948.980


Description

Slide Key, T shaped. Loops at handle end; Found in an urn


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; ?Little Wilbraham; ?Streetway Hill


Period

?Roman ?Anglo Saxon


Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.980


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Iron


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
Found in an urn. Possibly excavated from the Anglo Saxon cemetery, 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray. Pl. 39
Event Date 1852
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Analysis)
"N.B. The identification depends on Maynard's label, but the key matches exactly the drawing of one found in the Little Wilbraham Saxon Cemetery see Saxon Obsequies, plate 39" .

Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
T shaped. Loops at handle end; Found in an urn
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa


FM:19204

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