Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: '1900.88 B' [sic]
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Camb Castle'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Related Documents)
Cyril Fox (1921) notes that, in addition to Kerrich's drawings held in the British Library, 'Bowtell's MS (Downing College) gives additional information relating to the discovery' in 1810.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 39505: 'Saxon stone cross (head only)'.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Related Documents)
In The Archaeological Journal (1855), Albert Way notes that the Rev. T. Kerrich's original drawings and notes of the 1810 discovery of grave slabs and crosses at Cambridge Castle are in the British Museum (now British Library), Add. MS. 6735 fol. 189, 190.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Found: Cambridge Castle, 1810
Event Date 1810
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Cyril Fox gives an overview of the initial 1810 discovery at Cambridge Castle, including 1886.33 and 1900.88 A-B: 'Five complete slabs and portions of two others were found in this year [1810], together with the head of a wheel cross already mentioned [1886.33], and a number of rude gravestones intended to be set upright; and on a subsequent occasion another grave-cover was found six feet deep a few yards outside the rampart. The gravestones and five of the eight slabs are lost, but fortunately these were drawn in 1812 by the Rev. T. Kerrich, University Librarian, who published them in Archaeologia (vol. XVII, p. 228, Pl XV-XVI). Bowtell's MS (Downing College) gives additional information relating to the discovery' (p. 20)'
Event Date 1810
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Kerrich, Rev. T. (1814). 'Account of some Lids of Stone Coffins discovered in Cambridge Castle in 1810. By the Rev. T. Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A. Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge; in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary'. Archaeologia, vol. 17. p. 228 (not illustrated).
Event Date 1814
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Other owners)
Mr Westwood exhibited a rubbing of this cross at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute on 6 January 1854 (the article carries an illustration). He notes that it 'was found in 1810, in excavations at Cambridge Castle' and that it 'came into the possession of the Cambridge Camden (now the Ecclesiological) Society, and was transferred with their collections to London. On the formation of the Architectural Museum, the Society presented it with several casts, etc...' (p. 70).
Event Date 1854
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Westwood, Mr. (1854). 'Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited (6 January 1854)'. The Archaeological Journal, vol. 11. p. 70 (illustrated)
Event Date 1854
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Way, A. (1855). 'Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited (13 April 1855)'. The Archaeological Journal, vol. 12. pp. 201-202
Event Date 1855
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
This cross was exhibited at a meeting of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society on 26 October 1885, by the President of the Society, Rev. G.F. Browne. He provided details, including a letter, of the circumstances in which it was transferred to the museum from the Royal Architecture Museum. Browne also noted that Mr Westwood was incorrect in his 1854 report to the Archaeological Institute that the reverse of the cross was plain, when it in fact it is similarly decorated.
Event Date 26/10/1885
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1886.33: 'The upper portion of an early Saxon stone cross.'
Event Date 1886
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
According to the 1887 Annual Report, shortly after their acquisition 'three strong shelves have been fitted to the eastern wall [of the Antiquarian Gallery] for the temporary accommodation of the Saxon body-stone [1886.34.1-2], cross-head [1886.33], casts, etc.' (p. 1)
Event Date 1887
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
(1888). 'October 26, 1885 Meeting'. Report of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol. 6.2 pp. lvii-lix.
Event Date 1888
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
(1888-1889) Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. vii. p. 17.
Event Date 1889
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Other)
On Monday, March 4, 1889 Professor Browne exhibited the Fulbourn cross head (1889.35) to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and noted that the cross fragment 'resembling so closely that found in 1810 under the Norman works of Cambridge Castle [1886.33], and now in the Museum of Archaeology, that they must be of the same early date, an probably from the same stoneyard; where they differ, the Fulbourn cross is rather more ornamented.' (PCAS vol vii, p. 17).
Event Date 4/3/1889
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1921). 'Anglo-Saxon Monumental Sculpture in the Cambridge District'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol. xxiii, p. 15-45. Pl. I.1.
Event Date 1921
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Royal Commission on the historical Monuments of England. (1959). 'An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge: Part I.' London: H.M.S.O. Pl. 28.i
Event Date 1959
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
This cross was previously on display (Clarke Gallery, 1984-2010) with an inccorect accession number (Z 34505 rather than Z 39505). Its label read: 'Head of stone cross. Late Saxon. Found under the ramparts of Cambridge Castle, 1810.'
Event Date 1984
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Guy Points supplied information now found in the Period fields.
Event Date 2017
Author: Annie McKay

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Context (References)
Points, Guy. (2017). A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & Anglo-Scandinavian Sites: Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire. Rihtspell Publishing: London. pp. 74-77
Event Date 2017
Author: Annie McKay

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Context (Amendments / updates)
This cross has been the subject of some confusion surrounding its accession number. It is not marked with its original accession number (1886.33) or the Z number it was assigned at an unknown date (Z 39505). It is, however, incorrectly marked 1900.88 B; this appears to stem from a later misreading of the Accession Register entry/catalogue card for 1900.88 whereby instead of 1900.88 A having a cross-head incorporated in its design, it was understood that the cross-head was a separate object, namely this cross, which in turn resulted in the correct 1900.88 B being erroneously marked 1900.88 C. Furthermore, 1886.34.1 had been tentatively (incorrectly) identified as 1886.33. Therefore, the cross was assigned a TEMP number in 2018. It has now been firmly established as 1886.33 based on the drawings, measurements and collections history detailed in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 11, p. 70) and the Report of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1885-1886. pp. lvii-lix).
Event Date 14/8/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
The top part of a ring-head cross and some of its angular cross-shaft. It is decorated with a band of flat moulding around the three cross arms, and a central boss. The lower shaft is decorated with interlace design. Similar design on reverse, much damaged.
Event Date 19/8/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
The top of a stone ring-head cross with angular cross-shaft, partly missing. It is decorated with a band of flat moulding around the three cross arms, and a central boss. The shaft is decorated with interlace design. Similar design on reverse.
Event Date 21/5/2021
Author: Emily Shorter