Context (Found together / assemblage)
The CAS Register associates this object with 1883.170 but it is unclear whether 'found in a tumulus' applies to both objects or just to 1883.170. Nevertheless, they are best regarded as a possible set of grave goods

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink, over black ink: 'Litlington'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
?Found in a barrow and collected by ?Dr Webb in 1821

Event Date 1821
Author: Annie McKay

Description (Physical description)
Three rivet holes. Three rivets extant; Haft split; Plain; ?Grave
Event Date 1883
Author: maa

Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. p. 268. fig. 13 no.8.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Display)
Previously on display in archaeology gallery, Case 32, Clarke Gallery 1984-2010.
Event Date 1984
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Other)
CAS Register adds, in a different hand to the descriptions on .169 and .170: "Hardly accurate description". B.C.R. Register adds: "C.A.S. (Probably from the Webb Collection) May 1884" and "No data". The "found in a Tumulus" label refers in the B.C.R. Register only to 1883.170. (S-J Harknett)
Event Date 11/10/2004
Author: Annie McKay

Context (References)
Hunter, John and Woodward, Ann. (2015). ‘Ritual in early Bronze Age Grave Goods Project’. Unpublished Leverhulme research project record sheets, University of Birmingham.
Event Date 2015
Author: Annie McKay

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3754 | Remedial
Event Date 3/3/2017
Author: Ruth Watson

Context (Related Documents)
See Doc.427 for Hunter and Woodward unpublished object sheets.
Event Date 29/8/2018
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Analysis)
On Friday 11th November 2022 Stuart Needham analysed this dagger. He noted: 'This [the CAS museum accession register] attributes no 169 to 'Litlington, Cambs' (the question mark only comes in the later register [the BCR accession register]) which is reasonable since it is a classic Type Butterwick (Gerloff) or Series 2A (my classification) bronze dagger of the first stage of the EBA, c. 2150-2000 BC'.
This date range has been added to the Period field which had previously stated Early Bronze Age only.
Event Date 11/11/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy dagger blade with three rivet holes and three rivets extant; haft split.
Event Date 13/10/2023
Author: Lily Stancliffe