A curved gold armlet with an open gap, featuring several smooth, round gold bands strung along its length against white.

Gold armlet with rings © The Trustees of the British Museum

Wilburton and Grunty Fen Scrapbook

Mike Petty's Wilburton and Grunty Fen Scrapbook

https://archive.org/details/WilburtonScrapbook/mode/2up

Grunty Fen has been the location for some important archaeological finds. In 1850 the Grunty Fen armilla, gold bracelet with six rings attached, and copper rapier fragment were found. The association of bronze objects with each is of great value for dating purposes. The finds are now in the British Museum.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1884-0520-3

A blackened, corroded fragment of a metal blade with a tapered, notched base, viewed against a plain white background.

Copper rapier fragment @ The Trustees of the British Museum

A further gold torc was discovered in 2016:

https://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/treasure-found-in-a-grunty-fen-field-is-among-82-4884344

A helical coil of twisted gold ribbon, resting on a flat, pale surface against a soft, light-blue background.

Grunty Fen Gold Torque (Wikimedia Commons)

Four men and one woman stand in a farmyard with a cow and five calves near thatched buildings in this 1900 black-and-white print.

Cow with 5 calves belonging to Geo Sharpe, Wilburton (Cambs Collection)

A line of small, dark train carriages moves across a flat, open fen landscape seen from a slightly elevated, bushy vantage.

Grunty Fen Express 1930s

The Ely, Wilbuton, Haddenham and Sutton railway line opened in 1866.

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