Accession No

Z 16180 D


Description

A finger ring made either from silver or silvered copper alloy. An undecorated thick band, two fragments present.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Soham


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]; Tebbutt, Charles Frederick [excavator]; Leaf, C. S. [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 16180 D; MAA: Z 16002


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Silver; ?Copper Alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Analysis)
Unsigned handwritten note found with object reads: 'Fragment of silver finger-ring with objects from Soham Grave 9 (Z 16181) probably actually belongs to Grave 7 (Z 16180). Lethbridge (1951) mentions a bronze finger-ring (closed, undecorated band) on part of Grave 7 . The corrosion product on the inside surface of this ring may have led him to think, erroneously, that it is of bronze. Files of University Museum, Cambridge, list a silver finger- ring in Grave 7, but record no finger-ring at all in Grave 9.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter


Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1933). 'Anglo-Saxon Burials at Soham, Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 33. pp 152-163
Event Date 1933
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (CMS Context)
Anglo Saxon cemetery, grave 7
Collected by Lethbridge.T.C.
Z 16002 and Z 16180 matched as same objects
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
Silvered bronze.
'Broken in two pieces. K. Sutton 14/6/2001'

Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
A finger ring made either from silver or silvered copper alloy. An undecorated thick band, two fragments present.
Event Date 23/4/2021
Author: Emily Shorter


FM:19602

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