Accession No

1897.210 B


Description

Copper alloy square headed brooch (possibly cruciform); undecorated.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lakenheath


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Morley [vendor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1897.210 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label associated with object reads: 'Anglo-Saxon bronze cruciform brooch. Lakenheath. C. A. S.'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label associated with object reads: 'Anglo-Saxon cruciform fibula. Lakenheath. C. A. S. Coll.'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (Field collection)
Found August 1897
Event Date 8/1897
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (References)
West, Stanley. (1998). A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology, EAA 84. pp. 73-80
Event Date 1998
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett description for 1897.210 A-E: 'Found: the top part of one cruciform brooch and the three small cross-shaped brooches, one of which has its iron pin remaining.'
Event Date 20/4/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1897.210 A-E: 'Five fibulae, two plain square-headed (not a pair), and three small cross-shaped fibulae.'
Event Date 5/4/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy square headed brooch (possibly cruciform); undecorated.
Event Date 17/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:291745

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