Object

Accession No

1948.1199

Description

Copper alloy bow brooch. Long narrow bow tapering to a point at the foot, the reverse of which forms the long flat catchplate, part of which is missing. The front is decorated with two longitudinal grooves along the outer edges and crescent punchmarks along the centre. The spring is made up of four coils, one of which curves round and forms the long narrow pin.

Place

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

Period

Roman Anglo Saxon c 100 AD

Source

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

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1948.1199

Cultural Affliation

Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze

Local Term

Measurements

42mm

Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label found with brooch reads: 'Little Wilbraham. Braybrooke Colln. 48.1199'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Field collection)
Anglo-Saxon cemetery. 30 September 1851, found in the general digging.

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.
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (CMS Description)
Bronze, bow-shaped fibula with nail-impression marks on bow, and bare spring
Event Date 28/4/1993
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy bow brooch. Long narrow bow tapering to a point at the foot, the reverse of which forms the long flat catchplate, part of which is missing. The front is decorated with two longitudinal grooves along the outer edges and crescent punchmarks along the centre. The spring is made up of four coils, one of which curves round and forms the long narrow pin.
Event Date 18/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett

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