Context (Display)
Label found in box reads: 'Romano-British Cremation Burial. 2nd Century A.D. One of four Romano-British burial discovered during the excavation of the pagan Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the site of Girton College. They were no doubt the family grave belonging to a Roman villa somewhere in the neighbourhood. See: "The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College" (Cambridge 1925) by E.J. Hollingworth and M.M. O'Reilly, page 32, plates xi and xii.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Display)
Handwritten display label reads: 'Iron hanging lamp. This is of the same type as the iron "cruisie" used until recently in the Hebrides.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Roman Grave II. Excavated by Francis John Henry Jenkinson on 18 April 1881. See his notebook in the archive (GO3/5/1).
Event Date 18/4/1881
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for D 1924.29 E[.1-2]: 'Iron lamp-holder, with rod for suspension'
Event Date 1924
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Hollingworth, E.J. and O'Reilly, M.M. 1925. The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 32, pls. xi and xii
Event Date 1925
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Iron suspension rod for lamp holder (D 1924.29 E.1).Iron suspension rod for lamp holder (D 1924.29 E.1). Suspension loop at one end, the other end is pointed with a hook slightly further up the shaft.
Event Date 28/10/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2022.5508 | Remedial
Event Date 19/12/2022
Author: Kirstie French