Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note reads: 'Comb fragments. 3 frag. of thin bronze'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 29680[.1-.8]: 'Associated small finds from the cemetery: Fragments of more than one comb, bone. 3 fragments of thin sheet bronze. 3 beads, one fused'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O’Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
47 fragments from multiple bone combs. Seven straight endplates from double-sided composite bone combs, three with iron rivets in place, one with part of strengthening bar attached with two iron rivets, decorated with ring and dot motifs and grooves. Multiple strengthening bar fragments and toothplate fragments and one toothplate with part of strengthening bar attached with an iron rivet, decorated with ring and dot motifs. Two endplates from single-sided composite bone combs and on backplate fragment.
Event Date 24/11/2020
Author: Emily Shorter