IDNO

LS.168154.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "190.47 - 49. Burwell. Cambs.
Objects collected before 1925-7 excavations.
47. Objects from Graves 1 and 2.
(3 slides)."

Documentary photograph of:
Fragment of an iron buckle frame, possibly oval in shape with a small portion of the iron pin still adhering. Found in grave 1 under the skull with bronze clasp. MAA reference 1926.253.2

Blue annular glass bead with a crack running down one side. MAA reference 1926.254 A.2

Stone spindle whorl or possibly a bead, roughly plano-convex in shape with a circular central hole; undecorated. Found in Grave 2 (containing two skeletons. Heads to the North) at the left hip.
Excavated by T.C. Lethbridge/Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1925. MAA reference 1926.254 A.1

Copper alloy buckle with an oval frame with a rounded cross-section; pin is present with loop. Square plate made from folded sheet metal with two rivet holes along the back edge; one rivet still in place. Possible patched repair made with a thin sheet of copper alloy fixed with a rivet. Found in grave 2 (containing two skeletons. Heads to the North) by the lower ribs. MAA Reference 1926.254 B.1

Place

Europe British Isles; United Kingdom; England; Cambridgeshire; Burwell

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [Object donor]; Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator]

Date

circa 1925

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.168117.TC1 - LS.168220.TC1 were found unaccessioned in drawer S.190.

Bibliographical Reference: Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1931). ‘Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.’ Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, n.s. 3. pp. 47-70. [JD 13/03/2024]