Context (Related Documents)
For Melissa Metzger's Crowther-Beynon Grant report see Doc.485 in MAA's archive.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 1869 and - indistinctly beneath paraloid deposit and old velcro - Burwell Fen in two styles. Re-marked with IDNO as this was substantially lost during cleaning.
Event Date
Author: Peter Rooley

Description (Physical description)
Subrectangular ground knife
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1869.
Event Date 1869
Author: maa

Context (References)
Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. London: Longmans, Green. 2nd edition. p. 340
Event Date 1897
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Clark, J. (1929). 'Discoidal Polished Flint - their typology and distribution'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia 6 (1). p. 41-54.
Event Date 1929
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. pl. III.
Event Date 1938
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Loveday, R. (2011). 'Polished rectangular flint knives- elaboration or replication?'. Saville, A. (editor) Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period, Neolithic Studies
Group Seminar Papers 11. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 234- 246.
Event Date 2011
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
This object was accessioned with no source information and has no immediately identifiable marking nor any labels. However, it matches the description, location and multiple measurements of a knife in from Burwell in Sir John Evans' collection described in Evans' Ancient Stone Implements publication. Many of Evans' stone tools from Burwell were accessioned into MAA as Z numbers. It seems that this object was indeed in Evans' collection, and he has now been added to the Source field accordingly.
Event Date 8/7/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This object is a sub-rectangular flint tool that has been bifacially worked. The tool was made off a dark olive flint with completed polished faces and edges. This artefact has evidence of manufacture; some of the flake scars are still present. Due to the curved nature of the tool, it was clearly made from a flint flake, but the bulb of percussion is not visible.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This piece falls into the category of Polished-edge Type IV. This category is Clark’s Type IV. This shape warrants its own category as the shape is completely different than the others and they are manufactured different as well. The faces and edges of this tool are usually completely polishing with a few exceptions. This artefact was found at Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
In September 2017 Melissa Metzger, PhD candidate at the University of Bradford, studied a number of polished discoidal knives for their Crowther-Beynon Grant. They supplied further descriptions, measurements, contextual information and bibliographic references. These fields have been updated accordingly. They also suggested a date of Neolithic which matches part of the existing Period field of Neolithic; Bronze Age.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Rowland, Jake Thomas, (June 2024). Beyond Symbols of Power: an integrated multi-scalar study of the life histories of Middle Neolithic elaborate objects. Unpublished PhD Thesis submitted to University of Southampton. p. 176, 308. fig. 7.2, 7.8.
Event Date 6/2024
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson