Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to back of belt plate reads: 'A 1905.25 Saxon (Nunn's Sale)'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Eleven Anglo Saxon artefacts from Barrington were acquired by MAA from the 1905 sale of Edmund B. Nunn's collection (1905.10, 1905.17-22, and probably 1905.25-28). They were purchased using money donated by Mrs. Foster, the widow of Walter Kidman Foster, who excavated Hooper's Field (Barrington B) in 1880. With the exception of 1905.10, the Accession Register does not list which Barrington cemetery these objects come from: Edix Hill (Barrington A) or Hooper's Field. The vessel (1905.10) is listed as 'Barrington, 1880', almost certainly referring to the excavation date of Hooper's Field. Although it is possible that the remainder of the material came from Edix Hill, on balance it is perhaps more likely that all of Nunn's Barrington collections came from the same site and perhaps from the same source. This may also explain Mrs Foster's interest in assisting the museum to acquire them so that they could join those objects excavated and bequeathed by her husband, although this is supposition. Hooper's Field has therefore been tentatively added to the Place field.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1905.25 and 1905.26: 'Two oblong oval buckles; a large and a smaller: the tag of the larger, the tongue of which is missing, shows original repairing.'
Event Date 1905
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
1905.25-1905.28 were originally part of Edmund Brook Nunn's collection and were purchased as a joint lot (Lot 267) at the Nunn Sale, Royston on 27 June 1905 with money given by Mrs Walter K. Foster.
Event Date 27/6/1905
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Bronze oval buckle with extant belt plate. Gilding still present on obverse of buckle; silvering present on reverse. Iron tongue missing except for loop at base. Thin bronze belt plate with original repairing.
Event Date 8/10/2013
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Annual Report entry for this buckle gives the Place as Barrington. In the Accession Register, '?Barrington' has been written in a later hand in pencil. Barrington has thus been used in the Place field, but it may be tentative.

Event Date 8/10/2013
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Gilded copper alloy buckle with buckle plate. The frame is oval, gilded on the upper surface and silvered on the reverse; iron pin loop present in the pin slot. The buckle plate is of thin sheet copper alloy, with three rivet holes; one rivet present. Contemporary repair with sheet copper and a rivet.
Event Date 8/12/2020
Author: Katrina Dring