Description (Labels & Markings)
Objected marked: 'CAM 91'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'FOXTON CAMBS. D.D. Rev. E. Conybeare'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Related Documents)
This is very likely to be the axe that Frank Latchmore, of Hitchin, describes in a letter to Sir John Evans, dated 4 April 1891. In this letter, Latchmore reports that he called on the Rev Conybeare where he saw, among other objects, 'a polished celt of stone which is the thinnest & best polished one I have seen. As far as I can recollect it is a better one than the specimen (belonging to the late Rector of Knebworth) you saw here.' Latchmore concludes, 'I wish when you are in Cambridge you would call & see [Conybeare's] collection.' The letter is now in archives of the Ashmolean Museum: JE/B/2/55.
Event Date 4/4/1891
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Conybeare, J.W.E. (1904). 'Exhibition of Objects Found in or Near Barrington'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 10.4. p. 435.
Event Date 1904
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Magnificent green/adzite axe, very much ground, polished
Event Date 1929
Author: maa

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Context (Related Documents)
The card has the following entry: "Found on the borders of Foxton and Barrington; this is almost certainly the same axe as that referred to by Conybeare (Proc. CAS IV p 435) as being 'from a tumulus in the neighbouring parish of Triplow'. Information from Miss M. O' Reilly (see note in VCH I p 267).

Event Date 1929
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas and O'Reilly, Maureen. (1931). 'Archaeological Notes'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 31. pp 150-155, Pl. II.1
Event Date 1931
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Clark, J.G.D. (1938). 'Early Man' in Salzman, L.F. (ed), 'The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely', Vol. 1. p. 267
Event Date 1938
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Piggot, S. and Powell, T.G.E. (1948-9). 'The Excavation of Three Neolithic Chambered Tombs in Galloway, 1949. Appendix A. The Jadeite Axe-fragment from Cairholy I'. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 93. p. 155. no. 31.
Event Date 1949
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Campbell Smith, W. (1963). 'Jade Axes from Sites in the British Isles'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 29, p 156. Pl. XVII. No. 3.
Event Date 1963
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Thomas, Stanley. (1965). Pre-Roman Britain. Studio Vista: London. fig. 126.
Event Date 1965
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Clough, T.H.McK. and Green, B. (1972). 'The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 38, pp 108-155. (CAM 91)
Event Date 1972
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Related Documents)
See copy of Stone Axe Petrological Identification Printout attached to card.
Event Date 1972
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Jones, V. et al. (1977). 'Third Supplement of the Catalogue of Jade Axes from Sites in the British Isles'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 43, pp 287-293. no. 3
Event Date 1977
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Clough, T.H.McI. and W.A. Cummins (eds.). (1988). Stone Axe Studies Volume 2: The Petrology of Prehistoric Stone Implements for the British Siles. CBA Research Report No. 67. p. 175 (no. CAM 91)
Event Date 1988
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Petrequin, P. et al (eds). (2012). Jade: Grandes Haches Alpines du Neolithique Europeen. Vol. 1. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comte. inventory no. JADE 2008_75
Event Date 2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Other)
A spreadsheet was sent by Alison Sheridan to Imogen Gunn in May 2016, summarising the results of tests done to the axes from MAA's collection as part of Projet JADE1, not all of which apparently made it into the JADE publications vol. 1 and 2. See object files.

Event Date 24/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn