Description (Physical description)
Small long. Trefoil headed. Rectangular head lobe. Semicircular side lobe. Lappets below bow. Expanded foot plate. Panelled head plate. Edges outlined with engraved scollops. Iron pin missing.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Excavated from grave 170 in 1851, with two other bronze brooches and a string of beads.
Event Date 1851
Author: Annie Tomkins

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. (Not illustrated)
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch of trefoil headed type. Trapezoidal headplate with flat sub-rectangular top and flat half-crescent side knobs decorated with scalloped punchmarks. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Flat panel with sub-rectangular lappets decorated with punchmarks. Foot decorated with transverse grooved lines, flaring to a rounded, triangular terminal with punchmarks. On reverse, pin bar lug and catchplate present.
Event Date 5/1/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins