Description (Labels & Markings)
Old label reads: "Probably 5th century BC." [transcribed 16/3/2001]
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Handwritten display label reads: 'Proably V Century BC. Fibula of Certosa Type. IXWORTH. Fox, Arch. Camb. Reg. p. 75. Ransom Collection'. and in a later hand 'Z 23199'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Fox (1923) records this brooch as being found 'among "Roman objects found on one site" at Ixworth' (p. 75).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
(Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 75, Fig. 1.III)
Event Date 1923
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Bronze fibula (Certosa type)'
Event Date 8/12/1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Bronze brooch. Certosa type.
Event Date 22/7/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy brooch of Certosa type. Made of round cross-sectioned wire, thicker around the highest point of the bow which tapers as it coils into the spring. Rectangular catchplate and pyramidal terminal. Terminal decorated with grooved lines.
Event Date 4/7/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe