Description (Physical description)
Elongate, triangular, polished jadeite, with pointed butt, curved cutting edge, one face slightly convex, the other with the lower half slightly flattened
Event Date
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: A beautifully shaped, thin and highly polished celt, ground from a green jade-like stone, possibly allied to the eupholides (modified gabbros), of elongate, triangular form, with pointed butt, sharp sides and curved cutting edge; one face is slightly convex, the other has the lower half flattened.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Field collection)
Found by a labourer, while digging a boundary hedge, about 4' from the surface in the garden of the residence of Mr Chivers, Histon, ?1900.
Event Date 1900
Author: maa

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Context (Related Documents)
Accession register reads: '(see Evans' Stone Implements, second edition, fig. 52a). Found by Mr [space left blank] labourer, about 4 feet from the surface when planing a boundary hedge (abt. 1900) in the garden of [space left blank] Histon, the residence of Mr.. Chivers.' A handwritten paper label was affixed above the entry that reads: 'A green jade like stone, probably allied to the eupholides (modified gabbros)' and in a later hand '(Professor Bonney's [?] [unclear])'.
Event Date 1907
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Related Documents)
This axe appears to be the one described and drawn by Anatole von Hugel in a letter to Sir John Evans dated 11 March 1908, now held in the Ashmolean Museum's archives: JE/B/2/47.
Event Date 11/3/1908
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Fox, C. (1923). Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 10, Pl. V
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Clark, J.G.D. (1938). 'Early Man' in Salzman, L.F. (ed), 'The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely', Vol. 1. p. 267, Pl. III (no.1)
Event Date 1938
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Piggot, S. and Powell, T.G.E. (1948-9). 'The Excavation of Three Neolithic Chambered Tombs in Galloway, 1949. Appendix A. The Jadeite Axe-fragment from Cairholy I'. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 93. p. 155. no. 26.
Event Date 1948
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Campbell Smith, W. (1963). 'Jade Axes from Sites in the British Isles'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 29, p 156. No. 2.
Event Date 1963
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object is now difficult to read, but is (partially?) transcribed by Campbell Smith as 'a greenstone, possibly altered euphotide ("modified gabbro")' (p. 156).
Event Date 1963
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Thomas, Stanley. (1965). Pre-Roman Britain. Studio Vista: London. fig. 126.
Event Date 1965
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Clough, T.H.McK. and Green, B. (1972). 'The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 38, pp 108-155 (no. CAM 88)
Event Date 1972
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Jones, V. et al. (1977). 'Third Supplement of the Catalogue of Jade Axes from Sites in the British Isles'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 43, pp 287-293. no. 2
Event Date 1977
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: Archaeology Gallery, case 38, Clarke Gallery, 1984-2009.
Event Date 1984
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Clough, T.H.McI. and W.A. Cummins (eds.). (1988). Stone Axe Studies Volume 2: The Petrology of Prehistoric Stone Implements for the British Isles. CBA Research Report No. 67. p. 175 (no. CAM 90)
Event Date 1988
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Taylor, Alison. (1998). 'South East Cambridgeshire and the Fen Edge'. Archaeology of Cambridgeshire. Vol. 2. p. 3.
Event Date 1998
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Taylor, Alison. (1998). 'South East Cambridgeshire and the Fan Edge'. Archaeology of Cambridgeshire. Vol. 2. p. 7.
Event Date 1998
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: Displayed in the Andrews Gallery as part of the 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition March 2009-November 2010. Label noted 'Neolithic Axes 5,000 to 2,500 years ago. Burwell and London, England and Leys and Fyvie, Scotland. The new technology of polishing stone produced very sharp edges. Many of these handled axes were used by the first farmers for cutting trees. The delicate green axes were not functional tools however, but symbols of wealth and power.'
Event Date 2009
Author: Remke van der Velden

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Context (References)
Petrequin, P. et al (eds). 2012. Jade: Grandes Haches Alpines du Neolithique Europeen. Vol. 1. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comte. inventory no. JADE 2008_35
Event Date 2012
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Thomas, Julian. (2013). The Birth of Neolithic Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fig. 8.6
Event Date 2013
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
A spreadsheet was sent by Alison Sheridan to Imogen Gunn in May 2016, summarising the results of tests done to the axes from MAA's collection as part of Projet JADE1, not all of which apparently made it into the JADE publications vol. 1 and 2. See object files.
Event Date 24/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn