Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card has the following entry: "Found with a number of shoes and clogs of the Tudor period" The other card bearing this number read "Elizabethan Find" and "Christ's College" However such confusion occurs else- where, there the result being a mis-reading of the catalogue card at an earlier date.
Found: Small cupboard.
Date: 1530 AD. Elizabethan.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Other)
Handwritten display label found with 1883.692 G.1-2 reads: 'TWO CIRCULAR MEDALLIONS OF OAK WOOD, FORMERLY USED AS WALL DECORATION. CIRCA 1530. Found with a number of shoes and clogs of the Tudor Period in a small cupboard in the Old Court at Corpus Christi College. See Charles C Babington MA. FRS. "On Some Antiquities Found in Corpus Christi College in the Year 1852" C.A.S. Communications, Vol. I. p. 51
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquired by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1852-1853. The 1853 Report reads: 'Two wooden Medallions... found in a disused recess and under a floor at Corpus Christi College. See "Communications."'
Event Date 1853
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
(Bib): Babington, Charles. 1859. 'On some Antiquities found in Corpus Christi College in the year 1852' In 'Antiquarian Communications', Vol. 1, pp 50-54. University Press: Cambridge.
Event Date 1859
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for 1883.692 G [.1-2]: '2 discs, showing a man's and woman's head respectively.'
Event Date 1883
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Oak wall plaques bearing heads carved in low relief. One bearing a man's head the other a female head.
Event Date 26/1/1987
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
(Bib): Avery, L., M. Calaresu and M. Laven (eds). 2015. Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. pp. 116 & 267 (cat. 103-104), fig. 123.
Event Date 2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Display)
Both plaques exhibited in 'Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment', Adeane Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, 24 March to 6 September 2015.
Event Date 24/3/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Loan (Exhibition)
Peterborough Museum, 19/01/2017 to 03/04/2017, Tremendous Tudors
Event Date 19/1/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Tremendous Tudors', Peterborough Museum, 20 January to 30 April 2017.
Event Date 20/1/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
One of a pair of oak roundels, depicting the head of a woman in profile carved in low relief.
Event Date 3/4/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn