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
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Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Field collection)
From Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated at Mitcham.
Collected by: Bidder.Col.H.F
Grave 61
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Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Related Documents)
Accompanying the objects are two x-rays and drawings of the buckles and a letter. Now stored in paper archives.
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Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Saucer brooch, gilded bronze, ornamented with spiral scroll.
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Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (References)
Bidder, Harold F. And Duckworth, W. L. H. (1906). ‘Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Mitcham, Surrey’. Archaeologia, vol. 60. pp. 49-68
Event Date 1906
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

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1954.388 A-D: 'Applied and saucer brooches, bronze. Binding and buckle'
Event Date 13/10/1991
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Cast gilt copper alloy saucer brooch with raised perimeter. Decorated with three central grooved, concentric rings and outer band of inter-linked spiral scrolls. Part of catchplate present on reverse; pin bar lug missing.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe