Context (Related Documents)
For Melissa Metzger's Crowther-Beynon Grant report see Doc.485 in MAA's archive.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: 'E.C.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: 'BOTTISHAM FEN 1899'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sub-rectangular flake knife with ground cutting edge
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1899
Event Date 1899
Author: maa

Context (References)
Clark, J. (1929). 'Discoidal Polished Flint - their typology and distribution'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia 6 (1). p. 41-54.
Event Date 1929
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Loveday, R. (2011). 'Polished rectangular flint knives- elaboration or replication?'. Saville, A. (editor) Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 11. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 234-246.
Event Date 2011
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was accessioned with no Source information. However, the object is marked in pencil 'E.C.' (presumably Evans Collection) which has been found on several other objects that are from the Sir John Evans collection (e.g. Z 19472). It is not mentioned in his Ancient Stone Implements, but as the second edition was published in 1897 and this knife was collected in 1899, this does not rule out the knife having been in his collection. Sir John Evans has therefore been added to the Source field.
Event Date 26/10/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
In September 2017 Melissa Metzger, PhD candidate at the University of Bradford, studied a number of polished discoidal knives for their Crowther-Beynon Grant. They supplied further descriptions, measurements, contextual information and bibliographic references. These fields have been updated accordingly. They also suggested a date of Neolithic which matches part of the existing Period field of Neolithic; Bronze Age.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This piece falls into the category of Polished-edge Type IV. This category is Clark’s Type IV. This shape warrants its own category as the shape is completely different than the others and they are manufactured different as well. The faces and edges of this tool are usually completely polishing with a few exceptions; this tool fall into those exceptions.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is an oval/ sub-rectangle shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. It was made from a dark blueish flint with three polished edges. This artefact has more of a rectangular shape to it. Some of the high flake scar ridges has polishing present. There is a fossil inclusion on the un-polished edge. It seems to be patinated.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson