Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten tag, previously affixed to Z 29976 C-D by string, reads: 'Roman or Saxon buckles probably Saxon.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Acquisition Details)
The Accession Register tentatively gives the source for this idno as St John's College, Cambridge, which tallies with Walker's publication (1912, p. 122) in which he notes that the objects from Grange Road were found on St John's College property and belong to the College. The date of the donation is currently unknown, but it seems likely that it was from St John's College possibly via F.G. Walker or perhaps the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Rev. Frederick George Walker during the building of the house 'Saxmeadham', Grange Road, in summer 1911.
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Walker (1912) notes that 'In the course of the digging two bronze buckles and a Saxon bronze strap fastener were found, all three of a common type. The buckles might be Roman, but are probably Saxon' (p. 126).
[Note: this is likely Medieval]
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Walker, F.G. (1912). 'Roman and Saxon Remains from the Grange Road, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 16(2). pp. 122-127
Event Date 1912
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Fox, C. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 243
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was found during the building of a house, named Saxmeadham, for Mr F.G. Hopkins on Grange Road opposite St John's College cricket field. It, and the other items uncovered, were variously accessioned as coming from one, both or neither of these locations. In order to standardise this information, without excluding the possibility that the Roman and Anglo-Saxon material was once part of the St John's College Cricket Field cemetery, the Place field has been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham; ?St John's College Cricket Field'. The Medieval and Post Medieval objects have been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham'.
Event Date 15/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Small, figure eight shaped bronze buckle.
Event Date 15/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Small double-loop copper alloy buckle frame with a narrowed bar.
Event Date 10/11/2020
Author: Sam Daisley