Accession No
1948.1425 B
Description
Cast copper alloy object, pin-shaped with attachment loop at one end and tapering to a point at the other. Below the loop are two curved protrusions. The object is bent.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1425 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Analysis)
Described as a nail in 'Saxon Obsequies'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Grave 104. Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 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. XIV (no. 104).
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
Tapering, rod looped end and two side lappets
Event Date 23/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy object, pin-shaped with attachment loop at one end and tapering to a point at the other. Below the loop are two curved protrusions. The object is bent.
Event Date 18/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:19229
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