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: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: '?Plough-coulter socket
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Dr Kevin Leahy: 'Possibly the socket for a slasher.'
Event Date 14/4/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Dr Kevin Leahy believes this socket was broken at the time of discovery as it broke along a brittle fracture: it had to already be corroded to break like that. He thinks that it was possibly the socket for a slasher.
Event Date 14/4/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Iron socket, flat piece or iron with curved sides. Terminal at one end, broken at the other end. Central circular indentation at terminal end. Possibly a slasher socket or plough coulter socket.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett