Context (Display)
Old display label reads: 'Grave 8. Iron knife'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Related Documents)
See archive (GO3/7/2) for plans and diary for the excavation of the Cherry Hinton cemetery.

Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (Related Documents)
A piece of paper with the objects reads: 'RCHM - Cambridge City p. 1 Vol 1 2 poss. barrows (i.e. ring ditches) Chris Houlder dug it in 1949 with Field Club. A) 4 pits within the first ring-ditch, 9 sec. inhum. all A/S. B) Adjoining ring ditch with sec. holes containing grooved ware and EBA sherds in prim. sitting of ditch.' (transcribed by Sarah-Jane Harknett 26/4/2001)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Old display label accompanies object 1953.117-124, reads: 'Grave finds from secondary Saxon burials found in 1949 in a Bronze Age barrow. Iron mountings of a wooden bed were found with grave 4. Cherry Hinton. VII - VIII Centuries A.D.' (transcribed by Sarah-Jane Harknett 26/4/2001)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Grave 8, excavated in 1949 by the Cambridge Archaeological Field Club.
Nine inhumation burials were found as secondary burials in a Bronze Age barrow, part of which had already been quarried away when excavations were undertaken, on the slope, just north of the War Ditches.
Event Date 1949
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Single-edge knife with tang
Event Date 9/9/1986
Author: maa

Context (References)
Speake, George. (1989). A Saxon Bed Burial on Swallowcliffe Down. English Heritage Archaeological Report No. 10. London: HBMCE. pp. 101-103

Event Date 1989
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (References)
Evans, C., Lucy, S. and Patten, R. (2018). 'Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement: The War Ditches Cemetery, Cherry Hinton' in Riversides: Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington, Cambridge. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. pp. 374-381

Event Date 2018
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Iron knife with curved blade back, most of cutting edge missing. Angular shoulder, small choil and straight complete tang.
Event Date 20/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett