Context (Other owners)
In a series of letters with deputy curator Alfred C. Haddon in 1920, Joseph Wilkinson provided photographs and details of some of the objects he excavated from Edix Hill. This was intended to assist Haddon in identifying Wilkinson's collection from within the larger 1914 Trinity College Loan Collection. Wilkinson explains that the objects have 'a small figured label attached' and are often mounted together on cardboard, which should allow those objects that weren't included in the photographs to be identified. The numbering system, which was likely instituted by Wilkinson himself, follows the order of objects discussed in Wilkinson's report on the excavation; namely in grave number order. These numbers have therefore, in some cases, been used to assign grave numbers to objects where that information had become disassociated. Where possible, Wilkinson's numbers have been added to the Other Number field. (see GO3/9/6, WO8/4/1 and WO8/2/5)
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Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Related Documents)
See photographs in archive (GO8/2/5 and GO3/9/2)
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Found together / assemblage)
See Z 21316.4 A for the ring which was found on this finger bone.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Field collection)
Grave 5, Edix Hill (Barrington A) cemetery. Excavated by Joseph Wilkinson in March 1860.
Event Date 3/1860
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Display)
Joseph Wilkinson displayed the grave goods and human remains, or a selection thereof, from his excavations at the Evening Meeting of the London, Middlesex, and Surrey Archaeological Societies on 21 May 1862.
Event Date 21/5/1862
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Wilkinson, Joseph (1864). ‘Proceedings of the Evening Meetings: On the Discovery of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Near Barrington Cambridgeshire.’ Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. II. pp. 50-56.
Event Date 1864
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Wilkinson, Joseph. (1868). 'Cambridgeshire'. In Charles Roach Smith (ed.), Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. 6. London: J.R. Smith. pp 154-165
Event Date 1868
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Display)
On Tuesday, 27 August 1878 members of the British Archaeological Society visited Trinity College Library where the sub-librarian, Mr. White, gave a ‘short, but most valuable account of the more or less recent discoveries in the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Orwell, close to Barrington, in Cambridgeshire, and which, begun in 1860, have been going on ever since’ (Cambridge Independent Press, 31 August 1878, p. 6). This suggests that Wilkinson’s collection had been donated to the Trinity Library by this stage, and was used as an illustration for White’s talk. (In 1920 Wilkinson recollected that he had sent the collection to Mr. White (‘then curator’) ‘about 1880’ (see WO8/4/1), making a donation of circa 1878 seem plausible.)
Event Date 27/8/1878
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Acquisition Details)
The material excavated in 1860-61 from Edix Hill (Barrington A) by Joseph Wilkinson was sent by him to Trinity College Library in around 1878 and ultimately came to MAA as part of the 1914 Trinity College Loan Collection, although it may not have physically arrived at the museum until later. (see correspondence between deputy curator Alfred C. Haddon and Wilkinson in 1920, WO8/4/1)
Event Date 1914
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (References)
Hilton, Patricia. (1961). The Cemeteries at Barrington and Haslingfield in Relation to the Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England. (Unpublished PhD thesis). University of Leeds, Leeds. No. A117
Event Date 1961
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 21316[.1-5]: 'Brooch; amber beads; glass frag.; silver ring; pottery bead.'
Event Date 24/6/1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 21316.4 [A and B]: 'Silver ring with portion of finger bone'
Event Date 12/3/1987
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (References)
Malim, Tim and Hines, John. (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire. CBA Research Report 112. York: Council for British Archaeology. pp. 96, 217
Event Date 1998
Author: Louise Puckett

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Malim and Hines list this as 'unstratified', but its Wilkinson number (now missing but visible in photographs (GO8/2/5 and GO3/9/2) falls within the range of those objects from Grave 5, which includes a silver ring 'fractured in removal'. Therefore, the grave number has been added accordingly to Field Collection, and Wilkinson's number to Other Nos.
Event Date 24/2/2021
Author: Louise Puckett

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Description (Physical description)
Finger bone, possibly a phalax.
Event Date 26/4/2021
Author: Louise Puckett