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)

Context (References)
Foster, Walter K. (1883). ‘Account of the Excavation of an Anglo Saxon Cemetery at Barrington, Cambridgeshire’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 5.1. pp. 5-32
Event Date 1883
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Auction / Sale)
1905.17-1905.22 were originally part of Edmund Brook Nunn's collection and were purchased as a joint lot (Lot 250) 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 (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Iron pin still attached'
Event Date 10/01/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
On 29 April 2016 Agnese Benzonelli, PhD candidate at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, tested this object using pXRF as part of her researcher into the use of black bronze alloys in the ancient and medieval world.
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch with rectangular head decorated around edge with a line of circular punch marks. Crescent-shaped foot, partially damaged, also decorated around edge with circular punch marks. Iron pin intact, with some mineralisation of the textile present.
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Small long brooch with rectangular headplate and rectangular wings decorated around edge with a line of circular punch marks. High-arched bow; foot decorated with eight transverse grooved lines. Crescent-shaped foot, partially damaged, decorated around edge with circular punch marks. Double pin bar lugs and catchplate present on reverse; iron pin intact, with some mineralisation of the textile.
Event Date 26/4/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe