Context (Found together / assemblage)
Grave 45.
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 31275[.1-4]: 'Pair of short-long brooches as shown on the card, pair of complete wrist-clasps, 19 glass beads and one illegible Roman coin pierced for suspension.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Event Date 1923
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Related Documents)
The card has a sketch of one of the small long brooches
Event Date 23/9/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
4 wrist clasps found, forming two pairs. One wrist clasp has the end broken off, but present.
Event Date 28/3/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Related Documents)
Old label reads: 'Girton. PAIR OF BRONZE BROOCHES. With connecting festoon of glass beads. String includes re-used Roman coin. Grave 45. Z 31275 A/B. Pair wrist-clasps.'
Event Date 21/8/2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Pair of cast copper alloy wrist clasps (A-B). Both parts have a narrow rectangular bar, three square bosses with central elongated triangular projection and projecting pierced round lugs either side on the rear edge; transverse ridges between each boss. The hook-piece (A) has the remains of a bent hook with a slightly rounded end, projecting away from the edge of the central boss; the catch-piece (B) has a corresponding square catch. The lower boss of B is detached but present.
Event Date 8/2/2024
Author: Lily Stancliffe