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 black ink: 'BURNT FEN. LITTLEPORT'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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

Description (Physical description)
1 'Beaker' knife, the faces of this piece were flaked subsquent to grinding, the surface of which is patinated.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Context (References)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Report. February 1932. pp. 3.
Event Date 2/1932
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Lewis, J. (2005). Monuments, Ritual, and Regionality. BAR British Series 401.
Event Date 2005
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A polished, discoidal knife of which its surface has been reflaked.
Event Date 25/3/2014
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This artefact fits in the Type I of the Polished-edge Discoidal Knife classification. This classification has three types (Type I- circular or D-shaped, Type II- triangular, and Type III- broad leaf to lozenge) and show polished edges. This artefact classification might has functioned as wood or claying working tools. This piece was found in Burnt Fen, Cambridgeshire.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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 Late Neolithic.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is an oval shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. It was made from a dark brown flint with light brown mottles. It has one polished edge with a little bit of polish on the faces. This artefact is oval with a polished edge that extends several millimetres away from the edge. There is post- depositional damage to the edge. A few of the higher ridges on the faces have polishing on them. All of the ground edges are patinated, which hides the striations usually seen in the polished edges.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Accession Register, Annual Report and one of the catalogue cards notes that this is a 'Clarke gift'. However, when this object was catalogued the Source was given as Grahame Clark. This appears to have been a mistake due to the misreading of 'Clarke', which refers to Louis C.G. Clarke. Therefore, the Source field has been changed accordingly.
Event Date 8/9/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period field previously stated Bronze Age. Late Neolithic has been added from information from Melissa Metzger, see Analysis.
Event Date 15/6/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson