Description (Physical description)
Bracelet in two fragments.
Event Date
Author: maa

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Context (Display)
Mounted on perspex with handwritten display label reading: 'Sandy, Beds.' [sic - see Context note]
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Other owners)
In a series of letters with deputy curator Alfred C. Haddon in 1920, Joseph Wilkinson provided photographs and details of some of the objects he excavated from Edix Hill. This was intended to assist Haddon in identifying Wilkinson's collection from within the larger 1914 Trinity College Loan Collection. Wilkinson explains that the objects have 'a small figured label attached' and are often mounted together on cardboard, which should allow those objects that weren't included in the photographs to be identified. The numbering system, which was likely instituted by Wilkinson himself, follows the order of objects discussed in Wilkinson's report on the excavation; namely in grave number order. These numbers have therefore, in some cases, been used to assign grave numbers to objects where that information had become disassociated. Where possible, Wilkinson's numbers have been added to the Other Number field. (see GO3/9/6, WO8/4/1 and WO8/2/5)
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Grave 11, Edix Hill (Barrington A) cemetery. Excavated by Joseph Wilkinson in March 1861.
Event Date 3/1861
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Joseph Wilkinson displayed the grave goods and human remains, or a selection thereof, from his excavations at the Evening Meeting of the London, Middlesex, and Surrey Archaeological Societies on 21 May 1862.
Event Date 21/5/1862
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Wilkinson, Joseph (1864). ‘Proceedings of the Evening Meetings: On the Discovery of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Near Barrington Cambridgeshire.’ Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. II. pp. 50-56.
Event Date 1864
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Wilkinson, Joseph. (1868). 'Cambridgeshire'. In C.R. Smith (ed.), Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. 6, London. pp 154-165. Pl. XXXIV.1
Event Date 1868
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
On Tuesday, 27 August 1878 members of the British Archaeological Society visited Trinity College Library where the sub-librarian, Mr. White, gave a ‘short, but most valuable account of the more or less recent discoveries in the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Orwell, close to Barrington, in Cambridgeshire, and which, begun in 1860, have been going on ever since’ (Cambridge Independent Press, 31 August 1878, p. 6). This suggests that Wilkinson’s collection had been donated to the Trinity Library by this stage, and was used as an illustration for White’s talk. (In 1920 Wilkinson recollected that he had sent the collection to Mr. White (‘then curator’) ‘about 1880’ (see WO8/4/1), making a donation of circa 1878 seem plausible.)
Event Date 27/8/1878
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Acquisition Details)
The material excavated in 1860-61 from Edix Hill (Barrington A) by Joseph Wilkinson was sent by him to Trinity College Library in around 1878 and ultimately came to MAA as part of the 1914 Trinity College Loan Collection, although it may not have physically arrived at the museum until later. (see correspondence between deputy curator Alfred C. Haddon and Wilkinson in 1920, WO8/4/1)
Event Date 1914
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 251-252
[Note: incorrectly illustrated with a photograph of Z 21315.2 on Pl. XXX.1c, see Context note]
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Kennett, David. H (1970), 'Pottery and Other Finds from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Sandy, Bedfordshire'. Medieval Archaeology Vol. XIV, pp. 17-33, Fig. 9 no. 16
[Note: this bracelet is illustrated in this publication as from Sandy, but is now believed to be from Edix Hill. See Context note]
Event Date 1970
Author: Sam Daisley

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Silver bracelet in two pieces.'
Event Date 27/6/1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Malim, Tim and Hines, John. (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire. CBA Research Report 112. York: Council for British Archaeology. p. 217
Event Date 1998
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Large silver bracelet, thin section, with central overlapping edges at the front; widest at the overlapping portion and narrowing at the back, with a deep central groove running from the overlap around two thirds of the way towards the back where it becomes flat and plain.
Event Date 3/4/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Silver bracelet made from sheet metal with central overlapping terminals. Folded on one side to form a wave shape with a deep central ridge approximately two thirds of the way around; one third flat and narrowed. In two fragments.
Event Date 17/5/2021
Author: Sam Daisley

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Context (Analysis)
This bracelet was originally identified as coming from Sandy, Bedfordshire and was referenced (but not illustrated) by Cyril Fox in 1923 and Audrey Meaney in 1964, and illustrated by David Kennett in 1970. However, it now clear that this bracelet is not from Sandy but is instead from Grave 11, Edix Hill (Barrington A), excavated by Joseph Wilkinson in March 1861. Wilkinson included an illustration in Collectanea Antiqua (Pl. XXXIV.1) with two views of the bracelet from Grave 11, which matches Z 21370. This in turn raises the question of the origin of the silver bracelet that was originally identified as from Grave 11 (Z 21315.2). When Z 21370 was belatedly accessioned in 1977, it had no Source information. However, the only other Anglo Saxon object from Sandy in the museum is an urn (D 1914.124) that came in as part of the 1914 Trinity College Loan Collection; it therefore seems plausible that Z 21370 came in with the urn as part of the same deposit. If this is the case, then both Z 21315.2 (the silver bracelet apparently from Grave 11) and Z 21370 (the silver bracelet apparently from Sandy) were originally part of the Trinity College collection and a mix-up of their provenances could well have happened there, or at the point of transfer, so that the erroneous information was captured at the time of the entry to the museum. The most likely explanation (expanded more fully in the record for Z 21315.2) is that there was a one-for-one switch, whereby the Sandy bracelet became the Grave 11, Edix Hill bracelet and vis versa, thus making Z 21315.2 from Sandy and Z 21370 from Edix Hill. This record has been updated to include the correct information for Grave 11, as well as those publications where the bracelet was incorrectly identified as from Sandy.
Event Date 13/1/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Amendments / updates)
This bracelet no longer has its Wilkinson number affixed, and is not included in any of the surviving photographs provided by Joseph Wilkinson of his finds from Edix Hill (see GO8/2/5 and GO3/9/2), although he does reference both the bracelet and the amber beads from Grave 11 once being photographed (see letter, GO8/4/1). However, following Wilkinson's numbering system, the bracelet should be either no. 34 or 35. Both have tentatively been added to the Other Nos. field.
Event Date 14/1/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Exhibition (Spotlight Gallery)
EXH.2022.11 | Spotlight on Stores Move
Event Date 25/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Display)
Displayed as part of the Spotlight on Stores Move exhibition. Caption provided by Imogen Gunn: 'Pay no attention to this label. Don’t be fooled by the impressive label - this bracelet is not from Sandy, Bedfordshire. For the last 100 years it has been misidentified. Thanks to a Victorian illustration and the Stores Move project, it has now been reunited with finds from an Early Medieval cemetery in Barrington.'
Event Date 4/2023
Author: Katrina Dring