Accession No
1936.793 E.1-3
Description
Three iron clamps from a bed burial, each formed of a length of flat iron bar, narrowest in the centre and widening to each end. E.1-2 are of similar length though E.2 is missing one end; E.1 has the remains of a flat-headed rivet through each terminal; E.2 has the head of a rivet through the surviving terminal. E.3 is longer and has one rivet in situ through the extant terminal.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Shudy Camps
Period
Anglo Saxon c. 7th century
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1936.793 E.1-3; MAA: 1981.94 [Conservation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1936.793 [A-G]: 'Iron strips, twisted bars, staples, etc., the fittings of a bedstead'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Field collection)
Shudy Camps cemetery, Grave 29 bed burial. Excavated by T.C. Lethbridge in 1933.
Event Date 1933
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1936.793 [A-G]: 'Iron fittings of bedsted.'
Event Date 1936
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1936). A Cemetery At Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire. Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Quarto Publications. New Series, V. Fig 5
Event Date 1936
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (References)
Speake, George. (1989). A Saxon Bed Burial on Swallowcliffe Down. English Heritage Archaeological Report No. 10. London: HBMCE.
Event Date 1989
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. pp. 326,380. Fig 5.11. Table 5.6.
Event Date 2018
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Found together / assemblage)
1936.793 A-G are all components of the bed structure accompanying grave 29, they originally shared a record but have now been given individual records and suffixes. 1936.793 H is a copper alloy pin found in the same grave, it is uncertain whether this ever formed part of the museum's collection.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Three iron clamps from a bed burial, each formed of a length of flat iron bar, narrowest in the centre and widening to each end. E.1-2 are of similar length though E.2 is missing one end; E.1 has the remains of a flat-headed rivet through each terminal; E.2 has the head of a rivet through the surviving terminal. E.3 is longer and has one rivet in situ through the extant terminal.
Event Date 12/4/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:290725
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