Accession No
1906.305
Description
Iron knife; long tang, similar proportioned shoulder and choil, exterior edges are damaged; blade tip is absent. Corroded.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Girton; Girton College
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Jenkinson, Francis John Henry [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1906.305
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
91mm
Events
Context (References)
Hollingworth, Edith Joan, and Maureen M. O'Reilly. (1925). The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Event Date 1925
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (Field collection)
Grave 4.
Found with a skeleton, 30 March 1881
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Metal; Iron Knife
Event Date 10/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Iron knife; long tang, similar proportioned shoulder and choil, exterior edges are damaged; blade tip is absent. Corroded.
Event Date 25/11/2020
Author: Jane Pettitt
FM:8995
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