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: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Field collection)
From grave 111, Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavated at Mitcham.
Collected by: Bidder.Col.H.F
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1954.390[.1-2]: Pair of bronze disc brooches, with punched concentric circles
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Acquisition Details)
Originally these objects (1954.390[.1-2]) were deposits: no. [19]30.D.67. (Pencil: Pot not on loan).
Event Date 1930
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

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: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (Physical description)
Kate Sutton's description for 1954.390[.1-2]: 'Fabric impressions remain on one of the brooches.' [It is unclear which of the two brooches this comment refers to].
Event Date 2/4/2001
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (Related Documents)
Copper alloy disc brooch. Decorated with ring-and-dot punchmarks; one in the centre, and 15 round the edge. Pin bar lug and catchplate still intact, with remains of an iron pin fused to the former. Brooch is one of a pair.
Event Date 12/5/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff