Context (Display)
Mounted on perspex for display. Old handwritten display label found with object reads: 'TWO Combs. Triangular one from Lackford' and in a later hand 'Z.21378'. The other comb previously mounted with this is unknown.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Pagan Saxon Cemetery
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1951). ‘A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk: Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon Period in 1947.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Triangular. Incised rings and dots; Restored
'Metal rivets also present. S-J Harknett 23/5/2001'
Event Date 10/9/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Single-sided composite triangular comb with five iron rivets still in place. There are holes for ten rivets in total. On both faces, five incised lines follow the edge of the headplate. Decorated with three sets of concentric rings, one large and two small, which each have satellite ring and dot ornament. Affixed to perspex; one tooth and fragment of headplate detached but present.
Event Date 15/10/2020
Author: Lily Stancliffe