Context (Acquisition Details)
Originally these objects were deposits: no. [19]30.D.53 [= D 1930.53].
From grave 107 (on collar-bones), Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated at Mitcham.
Collected by: Bidder.Col.H.F.
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1954.376[.1-2]: 'Pair of small long brooches, bronze with traces of tinning; decorated with punched concentric circles. One has fragment of cloth adherent.'
Event Date 13/10/1991
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Jean Somerville description for 1954.376[.1-2]: 'No cloth apparent on sight of brooches.'
Event Date 30/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy small long square headed brooch; headplate decorated with large central ring and dot with smaller ring and dot ornament at each corner; notched perimeter. Low-arched bow with triangular section areas at top and bottom. Broad flat panel with rounded lappets and curved, flaring terminal; all decorated with ring and dot ornament. Both lappets and centre of foot are pierced. Pin bar lug and catchplate present on reverse.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe