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: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found in a Gravel pit, large hole covered by a stone, Springhead Lane. Collected in July 1914.
Event Date 07/1914
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'Half a beaker. Coarse, pinkish buff ware. Debased form with sharply carinated shoulder and vertical neck. Crude decoration, lozenge pattern on neck and bands of ribbing, roughly scratched to imitate rouletting. Found with fragments of another beaker, a stone hammer and a bone point.'
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Context (References)
O'Reilly, M. (1928). 'Archaeological Notes'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. vol XXIX. pp. 105-106. pl. 1.
Event Date 1928
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Report, 1928. pp. 3.
Event Date 1928
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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

Description (Physical description)
Beaker of coarse, pinkish buff fabric with flat base, low carination and upright rim and neck. Decorated with incised bands of short vertical lines and a single band of lozenges filled with cross-hatching. Reconstructed from a single sherd using infill.
Event Date 14/3/2025
Author: Lily Pencliffe