Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1927.1678 contains the following lengthy entry: 'The history of this site is given by the donor as follows: ' July 1914: skeletons and potsherds (this beaker) found by workmen (digging in a gravel pit on the site) in a large hole covered by a stone. December 1914: skeletons found, one having on its chest the axe hammer and ?spindle (1927.1679 A-B): skeletons were lying on the gravel at a depth of 3-4 feet. The workmen, on being questioned, stated that they frequently found human bones in this gravel pit, at least eleven jaws having been found. Autumn 1926: a skeleton was found accompanied by the Beaker (1927.1681): this was reburied by the Coroner' s order but recovered through Mr. J. P. Smith of Ely. This site was, therefore, evidently a considerable cemetery in the Beaker Period and probably continued in use in to the Bronze Age, as the perforated axe is of a Bronze Age rather than of a Beaker Period type.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Found in the Beaker period and Bronze Age Cemetery.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fine, smooth surface long necked style beaker in the form of Abercrombie A but abnormal as the upper half is much smaller proportionately than lower half. Bands of chevron ornament executed with a pointed tool decorate the beaker in five zones, a sixth around the base made of slashes only.
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

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. p. 263.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson