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.
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Related Documents)
Old note accompanies objects, reads: "pr. fibulae (urn near oval plate with grave X) incised fig. of 8 ornament, frag of 3 fibulae, frag of fused bronze, frag of thin bronze, twisted, small cylr knife". On reverse in a separate hand reads: "?St Johns".
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 29961 [A-B]: 'Fragments of bronze: belt fittings, rings, two annular brooches, scrap.'
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 (admin)

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

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for Z 29961 A-B[.1-6]: 'Objects which match this description found, unmarked, so identification not secure. Found: one chape - two rectangular plates of bronze joined by 4 rivets; 2 ?annular brooches or rings, one broken into two pieces, the other a fragment only (traces of gilding); a fragment of glass bead; a bronze ?bead - a cylinder of metal; two fragments of sheet bronze; one thin twisted length of bronze.'
Event Date 15/6/2001
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
These objects may be the 'several pieces of bronze to which it is difficult to assign an age' that was discovered 'in the course of digging' to build the house called Saxmeadham. However, the handwritten note does not clarify this, it does not have a label affixed to it, as do others of this idno, giving more details so it is impossible to know for sure. Nevertheless, all the information regarding the Saxmeadham site has been tentatively added to this record.
Event Date 16/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 29961 B[.1-6]: 'Fragments of bronze. A ring or annual brooch, now broken in two; a fragment of an annular brooch or ring with traces of gilding; a fragment of glass bead; a bronze cylinder of metal; two fragments of sheet bronze; one thin twisted length of bronze.'
Event Date 16/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Undecorated copper alloy ring or annular brooch now in two pieces; oval cross-section
Event Date 10/11/2020
Author: Sam Daisley