Description (Physical description)
Record for Z 29958[.1-.2]: 'Fragments of bronze brooch, with iron adhering. Also small strip of iron'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: " Original label says: ' Bronze and Iron Brooch Saxon Girl"
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Acquisition Details)
The Accession Register gives the source for this idno as St John's College, Cambridge, which tallies with Walker's publication (1912, p. 122) in which he notes that the objects from Grange Road were found on St John's College property and belong to the College. The date of the donation is currently unknown, but it seems likely that it was from St John's College possibly via F.G. Walker or perhaps the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Rev. Frederick George Walker during the building of the house 'Saxmeadham', Grange Road, in summer 1911.
Event Date 1911
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This object was part of the burial of an Anglo-Saxon girl, aged 9-11 years old. The recovered grave goods included a bone comb (Z 29960 A) resting against the skull, and an amber and glass bead necklace (Z 16394) around her neck fastened by a plain, flat, circular bronze brooch with, apparently an iron pin. The child's lower jaw (Z 29959 A) was stained green from the bronze brooch resting against it. Walker notes that the brooch was 'too broken for illustration' (Z 29958). This grave group is partially illustrated in Walker 1912 (see Bib).
Event Date 1911
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (References)
Walker, F.G. (1912). 'Roman and Saxon Remains from the Grange Road, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 16.2. pp. 122-127
Event Date 1912
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (References)
Fox, C. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 243
Event Date 1923
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was found during the building of a house, named Saxmeadham, for Mr F.G. Hopkins on Grange Road opposite St John's College cricket field. It, and the other items uncovered, were variously accessioned as coming from one, both or neither of these locations. In order to standardise this information, without excluding the possibility that the Roman and Anglo-Saxon material was once part of the St John's College Cricket Field cemetery, the Place field has been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham; ?St John's College Cricket Field'. The Medieval and Post Medieval objects have been updated to: 'Grange Road; Saxmeadham'.
Event Date 16/5/2016
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
One small strip of copper alloy with iron staining, broken at one end; decorated with raised dots clustered in a circle and lines and a small hole on rounded terminating end.
Event Date 10/11/2020
Author: Sam Daisley