Accession No
1948.1495 C
Description
Iron knife with slight angular choil and a raised sloping shoulder. The blade has a straight cutting edge, it is thinner along the cutting edge and thicker at the blade back. The tang is missing at the end and the tip of the blade is also missing. Thread tied around the tang and blade.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1495 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
166mm
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card: 'in cremation pot with various inhumations.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray.
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
A long knife in cremation pot
Event Date 8/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Iron knife with slight angular choil and a raised sloping shoulder. The blade has a straight cutting edge, it is thinner along the cutting edge and thicker at the blade back. The tang is missing at the end and the tip of the blade is also missing. Thread tied around the tang and blade.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:8934
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