Context (Analysis)
Stone Axe Petrological Identification number CAM 73: raw material Group XX
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Manuscript label attached to the object reads: "Portion of fine green-stone celt found in Burwell Fen 1903. See ?Evans p.116."
Event Date
Author: Peter Rooley

Context (References)
Evans, John. (1897). The ancient stone implements, weapons and ornaments of Great Britain." 2nd edition, Longmans, Green & Co.
Event Date 1897
Author: Peter Rooley

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card reads:"a finely worked Neolithic celt of green stone picked up by Pulman the mole-catcher, 1903, on the South side of Straight Drove 5 or 6 yards in the field on the bank of a cross ditch 31 chains from the end of the Straight Drove where it abuts on the Lode at the back of Reach measuring from the water."

Event Date 1903
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Finely worked ground celt
Event Date 29/4/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Finely worked ground axe, broken roughly in the middle; butt end remains.
Event Date 21/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)