Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Ixworth'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

Description (Physical description)
On catalogue card (Z 32160): 'Beaker type knife'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Fine, oval with one edge ground
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Context (References)
The entry in the Sotheby's sales catalogue for lot 56 reads: 'AN UNUSUALLY FINE OVAL FLINT KNIFE, with ground edge, found at Ixworth, rare.'
Event Date 28/11/1927
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased at Sothey's sale of The Collection of the Late Mr S.G. Fenton, lot 56, on 28 November 1927.
Event Date 28/11/1927
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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. Number 55 in the Index.
Event Date 1929
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Lewis, J. (2005). Monuments, Ritual, and Regionality. BAR British Series 401.
Event Date 2005
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This artefact fits in Type III of the Polished-edge Discoidal Knife classification. This classification has three types (Type I- circular or D-shaped, Type II- triangular, and Type III- broad leaf to lozenge) and show polished edges. This artefact classification might has functioned as wood or claying working tools. It was found in Ixworth in Suffolk.
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 Late Neolithic.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is a broad leaf shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. It was made from a little grey flint with blue and white mottles throughout. It has one polished edge. This artefact has been bifacially worked into its shape. It has one polished edge and has some polishing on the faces. The flake scar run towards the middle of the tool. There are striations in the polished edge that is from the manufacturing polishing process.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
The catalogue card gave the lot number for the Sotheby's sale as 42. However this was in error: lot 42 was accessioned as 1927.2146. This object matches the description and findspot of lot 56.
Event Date 3/9/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Period field previously stated Neolithic; Bronze Age. Late Neolithic has been added from information from Melissa Metzger, see Analysis.
Event Date 15/6/2020
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson