Context (Field collection)
Excavated from Context 3050.5.
Event Date 19/2/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
In 2010-2011, the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook excavations along Trumpington's riverside in advance of the construction of the Trumpington Meadows housing development by Grosvenor Britain & Ireland. During the excavations an Early Anglo-Saxon settlement was found and, within the settlement, four burials. The burials were clustered together in a row, although radiocarbon dates indicate that they all may have been buried at different points in the seventh century. On Saturday, 19 February 2011 Grave 1 was excavated, which revealed a rare bed burial. It contained the remains of a girl, aged between 14 and 18 years, who was buried with a gold and garnet cross, linked gold and garnet pins, a chatelaine, a comb and a knife. She had been dressed in fine linen tabbies and a bead-edged shawl and was laid on a wood-framed bed, with a wool blanket covering a mattress. This grave is almost certainly the last burial of the four.
Event Date 19/2/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
The cross and pins, together with the associated burial, were declared Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996. In December 2017 the landowners, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, waived their claim on the reward thereby donating the whole burial (2017.58-2017.74) to MAA.
Event Date 12/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Evans, C., Lucy, S. and Patten, R. (2018). 'Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement'. In Riversides: Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Small iron fitting. Rectangular with two rivet holes, one rivet still in situ and the other loose but present.
Event Date 10/1/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
This small iron fitting does not have an entry in Evans et al.'s Grave Catalogue and does not appear to be referenced in any of the other sections of the 'Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement' chapter. It is not currently known what type of object this fragment belongs to.
Event Date 11/1/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Small rectangular iron fitting with two rivet holes. One rivet still attached; the other detached but present.
Event Date 10/5/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5669 | Remedial
Event Date 20/4/2023
Author: Kirstie French