Accession No

1931.235


Description

2 cores, 1 core trimming flake with burin tip, 8 flakes, 6 blades, 5 microliths, 1 graver and 2 micro-burins


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Littleport; Shippea Hill; Plantation Farm


Period

Mesolithic Neolithic Bronze Age


Source

Clark, John Grahame Douglas (Prof.) [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1931.235


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
2 cores, 1 core trimming flake with burin tip, 8 flakes, 6 blades, 5 microliths, 1 graver and 2 micro-burins
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Excavated by J. Grahame G. Clark in summer 1931. The site known as Plantation Farm was identified in 1931 by Charles S. Leaf and Clark near Shippea Hill railway station; Clark cut a trial trench and donated the burnt assemblage of unstratified material to the Museum the same year. The site was more fully excavated by Clark under the auspices of the Fenland Research Committee in autumn 1932, the finds of which were donated to the Museum in 1933.
Event Date 1931
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (References)
Clark, G. et al. (1933). 'Report on an Early Bronze Age Site in the South-Eastern Fens'. Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 pp 266–296. Fig. 6, nos 83, 84 and 86.
Event Date 1933
Author: Peter Rooley


Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. pp. 269–270.
Event Date 1938
Author: maa


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