Context (Related Documents)
For photocopies of Lethbridge's Burwell excavation notes, drawings, etc. see WO8/1/1 in Archive.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Field collection)
Object from Grave 121, Anglo-Saxon cemetery, excavated by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1929.
Event Date 1929
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1931). 'Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, n.s. 3. pp.47-70, Fig.36.2
Event Date 1931
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The bone comb and several silver Anglo Saxon objects were incorrectly assigned the accession number 2001.28, and have now been assigned TEMP numbers (TEMP.00944-TEMP.00949). As the comb shows signs of more modern conservation, and there are traces of perspex on some of the silver objects, it is possible that they had been taken to the conservation lab for work prior to 2001 and subsequently became disassociated from their original accession number or, in the case of the silver, the rest of their accession number. It is hoped that they can be matched up in the future.
Event Date 30/9/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Two pieces of a silver-plated openwork bronze disc with stepped motif, constituting approximately half the disc.
Event Date 30/9/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Approximately half of a silver-plated openwork disc brooch with T-shaped cut-outs and a stepped motif. Small hole between the two fragments. Silver-plating has partly come away and is missing.
Event Date 15/12/2020
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was identified by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in his 1931 report as having been excavated from Burwell, Grave 121. As a result, the source has also been updated to reflect that the object was likely donated by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. However, an accession number for this object has not been identified and thus remains identifiable by its temporary given number.
Event Date 26/4/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt