Object: Slide Fastener
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen-land owned by Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 46
Width (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 5
Surface: Rough and dust coloured.
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: "Object looking not unlike a common drawer handle in shape. It has a straight central part extending in the middle and has a long pointed oval opening through it in the same plane as the two ends of the object, which are turned back from the central part and then turn slightly outward and end in small knobs." (Archaeologia)
Publications: Archaeologia, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919