Context (Other)
This item has both an 1883 accession number (for the CAS founding collection) and a subsequent one. The numbers order with 1883 first by Christopher Chippindale 30.04.2002. The object may be marked with the other number
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
This dagger was illustrated by Sir Henry Dryden on 15 June 1843. The drawing, marked No. XVIII notes that it is from 'Jackdaw Hill near Leighton' and is in the possession 'of Mr Inskip of Shefford'. The drawing is held by the Northamptonshire Central Library, accession number DR/01/053. The dagger therefore came to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society through Thomas Inskip, who has now been added to the Source field.
Event Date 15/6/1843
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Very delicately retouched around cutting edge, light grey flint. Patchy. Square butt
Event Date 1883
Author: maa

Context (References)
Smith, R. 1920. Specimens from the Layton Collection, in Brentford Public Library. Archaeologia, 69. p. 5
Event Date 1920
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Grimes, W.F. 1932. 'The early Bronze Age flint dagger in England and Wales'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 6(4). 340–55. Catalogue no. 1
Event Date 1932
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Thomas, N. 1956. Material for the study of the prehistory of Bedfordshire I: the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Bedfordshire Archaeologist, 1. pp 67–92
Event Date 1956
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Thomas, N. 1964. A gazetteer of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites and antiquities in Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal 2, 16–33
Event Date 1964
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
Dr. Catherine Frieman, University of Oxford, examined this object in September 2011 and gave the period as Beaker, c.2250 - 2000 BC.
Event Date 09/2011
Author: Peter Rooley

Context (Amendments / updates)
Jackdaw Hill was formerly identified as being in Cambridgeshire in the Place field, but is actually in Bedfordshire. This has now been changed. Jackdaw Hill is now Linslade rail tunnel.
Event Date 14/10/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
Frieman assigns this dagger to Class 2 (see Bib).
Event Date 2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Frieman, C.J. 2014. 'Double Edged Blades: Re-visiting the British (and Irish) Flint Daggers'. Proceedings for the Prehistoric Society, 80. pp 33-65
Event Date 2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Freeman description (see bib): Complete flint dagger with tip. Manufacture technique refined. Tang edges somewhat tapered, butt end flat. scaled retouch covers both faces. Lenticular in profile. Two pairs of notches along tang edges. Possibly resharpened. Very little wear, but what is present comprises some slight flaking on blade edges, polished arrises on blade faces and rounding along tang edges.
Event Date 2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Frieman, C.J. 2014. 'Appendix: Catalogue of British (and Irish) Flint Daggers'. Proceedings for the Prehistoric Society, 80. catalogue no. 142
Event Date 2014
Author: Imogen Gunn