Object: CheekPiece
Classification: Bit Cheek Piece
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): 75
Width (mm): 46
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 38
Patina: Dusty green patina.
Surface: Smoother in front than behind.
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: "A flat C-shaped object expanding at the 2 ends in which are deep recesses with rivet holes through them. Through the middle of the curved part is an oblong hole 16mm x 5mm which communicates with the narrow slit in the thickness of the metal that opens out at the back of the C. This place is broken and mended. One face ornamented with marginal grooves round the curved part and double transverse lines behind the rivet holes.",Incised decorative lines bordering edges and running across below terminals are only on one side of the objects.
Publications: Archaeologia, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919