Accession No

1948.1459


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.


Place

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


Period

Anglo Saxon ?mid 6th century


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1948.1459


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

82mm


Events

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


FM:19227

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