Accession No
1936.835
Description
Small gold disc pendant, with thin textured border and a ring of minute bosses; loop attachment is complete. Set with blue glass disc, which is loose in mount and showing evidence of decay.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Shudy Camps
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1936.835
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Gold; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
14mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Small gold disc pendant, with border of minute bosses; once set with blue glass but now missing.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps cemetery, Grave No. 45
Excavated in 1933 by T.C. Lethbridge
Event Date 1933
Author: maa
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 45 contained the fragmentary skeleton of a child of about 10 years of age. Lethbridge notes that the body was carefully arranged, with hands on thighs and legs crossed at ankles, but that the grave itself was shallow. The only object associated with this grave is the gold and glass pendant, found at the throat.
Event Date 1933
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Small, with border of minute bosses; set with blue glass
Event Date 1936
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited: Archaeology Gallery, Clarke Gallery 1984-2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Lethbridge, T. C. 1936, A Cemetery at Shudy Camps Cambridgeshire. Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Christian Anglo-Saxon Period in 1933. Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Quarto Publications. New Series, no. V. pp 16-17, Fig. 4.E
Event Date 2013
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Small gold disc pendant, with border of minute bosses, set with blue glass disc showing evidence of decay.
Event Date 9/2/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Small gold disc pendant, with thin textured border and a ring of minute bosses; loop attachment is complete. Set with blue glass disc, which is loose in mount and showing evidence of decay.
Event Date 14/4/2021
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:19355
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