Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'BURNT FEN LITTLEPORT'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

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Description (Physical description)
Mottled; yellow/dark green
Event Date 1908
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: A flat, pointed oval knife of dark brown mottled flint, of usually fine workmanship, and symmetrical form; the flat faces are boldly chipped, the cutting edge along the whole of one side being produced by secondary chipping, and along the other by grinding (4".2 x 2".6).
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Auction / Sale)
Accession register notes: 'Procured through the Museum's Agent: G.P. Gathercole - Lakenheath'.
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Auction / Sale)
The Annual Report for 1908 notes that this was 'purchased with Mrs Walter Kidman Foster's last subscription to the Museum Accessions Fund' before her death (p 6 and Plate I).
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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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 9/1929
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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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. pl. III.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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

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Description (Physical description)
An excellently preserved beaker knife made from a yellow green flint. It is oval in shape that ends in a point at both short ends.
Event Date 20/3/2014
Author: maa

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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

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Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This artefact fits in the Type III 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. It was found in Burnt Fen, Cambridgeshire.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is a broad leaf shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. It is made from a yellow, greenish flint that has blue mottles scattered throughout. There is only one edge that has been polished. This artefact is complete. There is only one edge polished that only extends a few millimetres from the edge. There is evidence of polishing of the edge, then pressure flaking it. There are macro striations that can be seen in the polished edge.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period field previously stated Bronze Age; Beaker Period; c 2250-2000 BC. This has been updated to include Late Neolithic from information from Melissa Metzger, see Analysis.
Event Date 15/6/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson