Context (Display)
Old display label reads: 'Plough coulter, Spearheads, Hasps, Draw-knife, etc:, found in the 10th c. leaden vessel at Westley Waterless shown below. Trinity College Loan' added in pen: 'Z 16465-74'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Spoon-bit.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
According to Thomas McKenny Hughes, the lead tank (Z 16465) was presented to Trinity College, Cambridge by Mr. Hall of Six Mile Bottom. It was 'dug up in draining the field behind the School and Post Office at Westley Waterless... [It] contained a bill and spearhead with side-opening sockets. Another spear, too long to be placed inside, lay across the vessel. There were also in it a steel-yard weight, holdfasts, an auger, a small coulter, staples, hasps, portions of what may have been a lock, and other fragments of iron' (p. xv) (Z 16466 - Z 16474). This discovery predates 1879, when Hughes made his presentation, but the date of discovery is currently unknown.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Spoon bit. Incomplete.
Event Date 27/4/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron tool. Iron bar, hammered circular cross-section with a long narrow scoop at one end and a flattened point with convex sides at the other end. Longitudinal crack along shaft.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett