Object

Accession No

1948.926 B

Description

Bronze brooch, spring attachment corroded. Short spring guard. Catch plate open for a zig-zag line across the middle.

Place

Europe; Northern Europe; British Isles; England; ?Cambridgeshire; ?Barrington

Period

Roman 1st century AD

Source

Braybrooke Collection; ?Conybeare, John William Edward (Rev.) [collector and donor]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1948.926 B; MAA: ?1913.226

Cultural Affliation

Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze

Local Term

Measurements

15mm x 20mm x 76mm Weight 0.015kg

Events

Context (Other)
Number marked on brooch, mounted on perspex and labelled: 'Barrington Conybeare' 2/8/2004 A.Taylor.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
No provenance but since from a British collection in all likelihood British.

Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
B: Spring attachment corroded. Short spring guard. Catch plate open for a zig-zag line across the middle.
Event Date 1948
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Bronze brooch, spring attachment corroded. Short spring guard. Catch plate open for a zig-zag line across the middle.
Event Date 8/10/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Given the typed display label with which it is mounted, it is more likely that this brooch is actually be 1913.226, a bow brooch with spring collected from Barrington and donated by the Rev. John William Edward Conybeare, rather than 1948.926 B, which was collected by Richard Neville (Lord Braybrooke). It may have been subsequently misidentified as 1948.926 B and marked accordingly.
Event Date 31/3/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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