Accession No

1926.504 D.1


Description

Bone pin or needle with circular perforation in the head. Dark patina. Tip and head broken and missing; two pieces present.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Waterbeach; Waterbeach Lodge


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1926.504 D.1


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description 1926.504 D[.1-3]: 'Parts of two pins.'

Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Labels & Markings)
Labelled in ink: 'Waterbeach / Anglo Saxon Village / House I'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (Field collection)
Found: Found by the donor in a dwelling hut which he excavated on the bank of the Car Dyke where it runs through his garden at the Lodge.
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1927). ‘An Anglo-Saxon Hut on the Car Dyke, at Waterbeach.’ The Antiquaries Journal, vol. 7(2). pp. 141-146
Event Date 1927
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. and Tebbutt, Charles F. (1933). 'Huts of the Anglo-Saxon Period: I. Huts of the Pagan Period at Waterbeach and West Row'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. XXXIII, pp. 133-137
Event Date 1933
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett 1926.504 D[.1-3]: '5 fragments found.'
Event Date 14/6/2001
Author: Katrina Dring


Description (Physical description)
Bone pin or needle with circular perforation in the head. Dark patina. Tip and head broken and missing; two pieces present.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Katrina Dring


FM:19567

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