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)
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

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Author: Louise Puckett

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)
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Grave 1, excavated in 1949 by the Cambridge Archaeological Field Club. Iron knife in bad condition found in the same grave.
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)
Spear with split socket
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 socketed spearhead. Split socket with circular cross-section. Blade with slightly convex edges and a central longitudinal ridge. Chips to edges of blade and socket terminal.
Event Date 20/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett