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

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)
Accession Register: 'Bill hook'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron tool, possibly a billhook. Blade with curved thicker blade back and straight thinner cutting edge, tip missing. Socketed shaft, curved sides, areas missing.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett