Fragments, component parts and Corpus

Fragments and Component Parts

This section contains details of components and copper-alloy fragments recognised and recorded as box parts. It is not possible to allocated them to a specific Type of box.

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Marina Drive (Bedfordshire) Grave E3 lid top or body base, solder on underside reused as a pendant.

Barrington A [Edix Hill] * Cambridgeshire.

Flat copper-alloy circular disc, 58mm diameter a lid top or body base, repousee decorated with three rows of dots around the circumference.

Barrington B [Hooper’s Field?] * Cambridgeshire.

Flat copper-alloy disc, 69mm diameter a lid top, repousee decorated with three concentric rows of dots around an incised centre. These raised dots follow externally applied guide marking out lines. A Body base plain 73mm in diameter, with a raised lip and three pieced holes indicate it was attached to the body by rivets. Both possibly from the same box?

Bourne End Buckinghamshire. SMR 0117702004

Copper-alloy strips B3 and B4 from a box body, repousee decorated with six rows of dots. Buckinghamshire County Museum. From an unpublished notebook by Francis Colmer (1873-1967).

Haslingfield * Cambridgeshire.

Three copper-alloy undecorated lid rings, over-lapped joints, two x 42mm diameter, one x 40mm in two fragments. One copper-alloy undecorated convex lid top or body base 42mm in diameter. * Fox. C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge.

Hambleton Moor female burial Yorkshire. PRN MCA 3633.

A copper-alloy fragment from a lid ring, c40mm x 32mm x 45mm in height. Bell mouthed repousee decorated with two parallel rows of dots between are three dotted chevrons. Attached is a split eyelet with two figures of 8 chain links a wire ring and one other figure of 8 link. The fragment and a copper-alloy chain with thirteen similar links is mounted on a card marked.

FROM GRAVE ON HAMBLETON MOOR. N. R. YORKS. PURCHASED 1882 FRAGMENTS OF BRONZE BOX, AND CHAIN FOR SUSPENSION

Possibly part of the box from Hawnby. British Museum collection. London.

MARINA DRIVE - BEDFORDSHIRE

Grave E3 female child 8 years old

Flat copper-alloy circular disc, 49mm diameter, solder located on the underside edges. A lid top or body base, repousee decorated with single line of dots around circumference with four lines placed at right angles meeting on a circle enclosing a boss. It has a pierced hole, it's position in the grave indicates it had been re-used as a waist pendant. Possibly from Grave B3/B4 in the same cemetery.

Gibson. T. and Harris. P. 1994. Analysis of Anglo-Saxon Solder Deposited on a Copper-Alloy Disc from the Cemetery at Marina Drive Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Archaeology. 21. 108-119

The following metal fragments and box components have been recorded by Portable Antiquity Scheme

Caerwent Monmouthshire. PAS WAW-FF3CCA7

Lid ring or body fragment decorated with repousee dots arranged in and two lines with a chevron V and inverted chevron between lines. Design similar to Lechlade Grave 14 and Hawnby boxes.

Ilam Staffordshire. PAS WMIDS-DC4EA4

Copper-alloy circular flat lid top or body base, 39mm diameter, repousee decorated with an eight lined starburst around a central boss. It has a pierced hole indicating it had a possible reuse as a pendant. Similar star-burst patterns are evident on Finglesham Grave 8, Uncleby Grave 29 and Wolverton Grave 2168 boxes.

Kirton in Lindsey Lincolnshire. PAS LIN-E32932

Circular copper-alloy lid top or body base 43mm diameter. Undecorated, complete with a copper-alloy split eyelet centrally positioned.

Stroud Gloucestershire. PAS GLO-DA7D75

Copper-alloy lid ring or body fragment, repousee decorated as a right angle or possible square with a single chevron dotted V located within the arrangement.

Wolfhamcote Warwickshire. PAS WAW-DA3434

Copper-alloy lid ring or body fragment, 33mm length x 42mm width, repousee decorated two conjoined chevrons in two parallel rows forming a cross saltire or diamond pattern XXX.