Accession No
1954.388 C
Description
Strip of sheet copper alloy decorated with repoussé dot ornament along both long edges. In two fragments; remains of one rivet hole. Possibly part of a bucket.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Surrey; Mitcham
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Bidder, Harold F. (Colonel) [collector and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1954.388 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
16mm
Events
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 (Related Documents)
Accompanying the objects are two x-rays and drawings of the buckles and a letter. Now stored in paper archives.
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Field collection)
From Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated at Mitcham.
Collected by: Bidder.Col.H.F
Grave 61
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Fragment of bronze binding, probably of a bucket.
Event Date
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)
Strip of sheet copper alloy decorated with repoussé dot ornament along both long edges. In two fragments; remains of one rivet hole. Possibly part of a bucket.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:291625
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