Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2: '1 beaker knife on flake with pronounced bulb'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: 'Lakenheath'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1: 'A circular scraper (Lakenheath)'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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

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Context (Auction / Sale)
The Accession Register records that this was: 'B[ought] Gath[ercole] (Jenkinson) -/3d'.
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to object reads: '1900.82 Lakenheath 1900'
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Beaker knife, on flake with pronounced bulb. Some scrapes retouch
Event Date 1900
Author: maa

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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

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

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Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This artefact fits into the Type I 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. This artefact was found in Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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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

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Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is oval in shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. This tool is made from a grey flint with blueish bands. It also has a few inclusions. The edge is only partially polished. This artefact is an irregular oval shape and is bifacially worked. There appears to be some edge damage, which is probably post-depositional. This tool was made from a flake as the bulb of percussion is present. There is some pressure flaking on part of the edge that is
visible.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Francis John Henry Jenkinson presumably purchased this, and dozens of other objects accessioned in 1900, from George P. Gathercole on behalf of the museum. Gathercole was an antique dealer based in Lakenheath, who sold many objects to the museum and is occasionally listed in the Accession Register as acting as the museum's agent. There was previously no Source information; Jenkinson has been added as tentatively the monetary donor and Gathercole as the vendor.
Event Date 20/9/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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