Description (Labels & Markings)
A label is affixed to the object which reads: '93'.
Another label on the base reads: 'Bone skate Cambridge The Cam. Free Libraries 1885'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
The catalogue card reads "The Cam. Free Library (or could be site where it was found)"

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
A bone skate. The surface of the top is very rough but whilst the base is worn it is still quite smooth.
Event Date 23/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
This object is probably part of 1886.45. The Annual Report record for this idno reads: "One key, a bronze bell, three leaden badges, a pair of bone skates, an ancient shoe (King's College), two tinder boxes, and a brass mortar and pestle. The Cambridge Free Library".
Event Date 7/9/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)