Accession No

1948.1197


Description

Small rectangular bronze pedestal on feet belonging to a statuette


Place

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


Period

Roman


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1197


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Bronze


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Circular red sticker affixed to object.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
Found 30 September 1851 in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Little Wilbraham, not with a skeleton, 'in the course of this day's work... apparently belonging to some statuette, at the depth of four inches' (p. 20)
Event Date 30/9/1851
Author: maa


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. 15 (no. 30)
Event Date 1852
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (CMS Description)
Small rectangular bronze pedestal on feet belonging to a statuette
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: maa


FM:19205

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