Accession No
1948.2231 H
Description
A thin, fine bone that has signs of being worked from the beginnings of a perforation being made at one end. This however was not been completed. The other end is broken. Possibly the beginnings of a needle or a piercer.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Linton; Hadstock Road
Period
Iron Age
Source
Lethbridge, Thomas Charles [excavator and donor]; Bushnell, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.2231 H
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
7mm x 2mm x 87mm Weight 0.002kg
Events
Description (Physical description)
Long, narrow piece.
Event Date 1948
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Early Iron Age site. Excavated by Thomas C. Lethbridge and Geoffrey H.S. Bushnell in August 1948.
Event Date 8/1948
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (References)
Fell, C. I., Lethbridge, T. C. and Bushnell, G. H. S. (1949). 'Archaeological Notes. Iron Age Site at Linton'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 42. p. 129.
Event Date 1949
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (References)
Fell, C. I. (1953). 'An Early Iron Age Settlement at Linton, Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 46. p. 33, 39. fig. 2 no. 8.
Event Date 1953
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (References)
Fell, C. I. (1953). 'An Early Iron Age Settlement at Linton, Cambridgeshire'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 46. pp. 31-42
Event Date 1953
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Description (References)
Possibly some were part of pins (1948.2231 H-K). Bone showing workings.
Event Date 17/2/1987
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Amendments / updates)
Whilst this object has been assigned the suffix H it appears from the publication by Fell (1953), see References, that the three bone pierces were originally 1948.2231 I, J and K. Whilst J and K can be still linked to their image in fig. 2, it seems that I has now become H on the object.
The object now marked I may indeed be one of the 'Two miscellaneous fragments of bone. Museum no. 48.2231 D and H' as no other reference was made to additional bone tools, for textile production, in the publication.
This may explain why the original Descriptions for H and I are the same.
The suffixes marked on the objects have been retained as the true suffix for the time being.
Event Date 2/10/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (Physical description)
A thin, fine bone that has signs of being worked from the beginnings of a perforation being made at one end. This however was not been completed. The other end is broken. Possibly the beginnings of a needle.
Event Date 2/10/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (Analysis)
Previously dated as Iron Age A.
Event Date 21/6/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe
FM:13443
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