Context (Related Documents)
See archives (GO5/2/1 - GO5/2/8) for Col. Bidder’s notebooks, plans, maps and correspondence relating to the excavation of Mitcham cemetery
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (References)
Bidder, Harold F. And Morris, J. (1959). ‘The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Mitcham’. Surrey Archaeological Collections, vol. 56. pp. 51-131
Event Date 1959
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (CMS Context)
Originally these objects were deposits: no. [19]30.D.80 [= D 1930.80].
From Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated at Mitcham; grave number unknown.
Collected by: Bidder.Col.H.F
Event Date 13/10/1991
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1954.403[.1-2]: 'Pair of bronze small-long brooches; square head plates (one broken) pierced with two holes and having their lower edges deeply notched; wedge-shaped foot'
Event Date 13/10/1991
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy small long brooch with square headplate decorated with crossed grooved lines, crescentic punchmarks and circular perforations in each corner; much of the headplate is missing. High-arched bow with rectangular section areas at top and bottom. Foot decorated with transverse grooved lines and trapezoidal in cross-section; brooch broken across top of foot. Flared triangular terminal decorated with crescentic punchmarks and with a scalloped lower edge. Pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 11/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe