Accession No
1954.388 D
Description
Iron buckle with rounded rectangular frame and remains of iron pin. Iron plate detached but present with mineralised textile adhered. In three fragments.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Surrey; Mitcham
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Bidder, Harold F. (Colonel) [collector and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1954.388 D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron; Mineralised textile
Local Term
Measurements
52mm
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)
Iron buckle and plate
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)
Kate Sutton: 'D is broken into three pieces.'
Event Date 2/4/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Iron buckle with rounded rectangular frame and remains of iron pin. Iron plate detached but present with mineralised textile adhered. In three fragments.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:291626
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