Context (Found together / assemblage)
The catalogue card reads: "Labelled 'Two fibulae found along with shield boss, spear, knife, sword, beads, silver ring, bronze pins, and rings at Fakenham, Suffolk.' The sword, silver ring, bronze pins and rings have been found. The shield boss and spears may be those described on 27.AS.19. but these have no label or indication of provenance whatever"
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (References)
Ridgeway, William. (1931). Early Age of Greece, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fig. 29a, p. 511.
Event Date 1931
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1927.681 A-B: 'Small-long. Unusual type disc shaped projections form the upper corners of the squarehead. One broken, the other outer pin remaining'
Event Date 31/7/1987
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (References)
West, Stanley. (1998). A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology, EAA 84. p. 40
Event Date 1998
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Cast copper alloy small long brooch, rectangular headplate with punchmarks, square raised central panel with possible traces of gilding. Two circular flat side knobs, one protruding from each top corner of headplate. Arched bow with rectangular section areas at the top and bottom and a central longitudinal ridge. Rectangular lappets with punchmarks. Foot broken and missing. Pin bar lug and catchplate intact.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Analysis)
Although 1927.681 A-B came into the museum as from Freckenham, there is reason to believe that they are actually from the cemetery at Tuddenham. They are both illustrated in Ridgeway's (posthumous) 1931 publication as from 'a grave, Tuddenham'. Although this could conceivably have been an error, the information that was recorded on the original catalogue card ('... found along with shield boss, spears, knife, sword, beads, silver ring, bronze pins and rings, etc.') is very similar to the material found in Tuddenham (see records 1927.680 A-E). Finally, although there is no date given on the catalogue card for when Ridgeway found or acquired this material, in 1911 the Victoria County History for Suffolk lists only two known brooches (1893.7.1-2) from Freckenham. Therefore Tuddenham has been tentatively added to the Place field, and Freckenham made tentative.
Event Date 4/6/2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)