Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found with the double grave of two children. Possibly a child's toy due to its context.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Old label reads 'Anglian burials excavated by Dr Cyril Fox 1922'. J.Somerville.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
F: Bronze buckle with engraved fish, pike or luce.
Event Date 1923
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1924). 'Excavations at Foxton, Cambridgeshire, in 1922'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquaries. vol. XXV. pp. 37-49.
Event Date 1924
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Taylor, Alison. (1997). 'South West Cambridgeshire'. Archaeology of Cambridgeshire. Vol. 1. p. 50.
Event Date 1997
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Malim, T. and Hines, J. (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire. Council for British Archaeology Research Report 112. pp. 323-324 Fig. 9.2
Event Date 1998
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Malim and Hines note that the buckle's design is 'distinctly reminiscent of a group of 7th century buckles from Kent' but that the 'size, shape and dimensions of the Foxton buckle could, however, fit in a late Migration Period context, while the fish motif can also be paralleled with earlier 7th century artefacts...' (p. 324).
Event Date 1998
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
J. Somerville: 'Tongue from buckle broken off but present'.
Event Date 17/8/2001
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy buckle. Oval frame embellished with a series of three transverse grooves; rectangular riveted decorative plate with pin slot. Plate decoration includes light diagonal grooves arranged in semi-circular rows and an applied fish, possibly pike or luce; ring and dot eyes and two short transverse grooves for gills. Corroded; pin detached but present.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Jane Pettitt