Accession No
Z 16187 A.1-5
Description
Copper alloy rim [.1], three mounts [.2-4] and a rivet [.5] from one or more buckets. Rim is made of folded sheet metal and has two rivets still present; wood from the bucket is present inside the fold. One mount is folded with a rivet in place and traces of wood, another is rectangular in shape with a rivet hole, the third is bent into a hook with a rivet hole.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Burwell
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 16187 A.1-5
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
For photocopies of Lethbridge’s Burwell excavation notes, drawings, etc. see WO8/1/1 in Archive.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley
Context (Field collection)
Anglo Saxon cemetery. Grave 132; Collected by: Lethbridge.T.C in 1929.
Event Date 1929
Author: maa
Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1931). ‘Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.’ Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, n.s. 3. pp. 47-70
Event Date 1931
Author: Sam Daisley
Description (CMS Description)
Bronze rim and mount from buckets.
'With remains of old wood inside. S-J Harknett 4/1/2001'
Event Date 14/8/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy rim [.1], three mounts [.2-4] and a rivet [.5] from one or more buckets. Rim is made of folded sheet metal and has two rivets still present; wood from the bucket is present inside the fold. One mount is folded with a rivet in place and traces of wood, another is rectangular in shape with a rivet hole, the third is bent into a hook with a rivet hole.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:19460
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