Accession No

Z 41798 A


Description

24 pieces of stone and flint, worked and unworked. Includes possible hammerstones, blades and scrapers; some firedamaged.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Freckenham; ?Lambourne's Pit


Period

Iron Age


Source

?Leaf, C. S. [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 41798 A


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Old label with objects reads "Pit 3 [gravel pit] Iron Age. Freckenham" [transcribed 15/3/2001]
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (Field collection)
Pit 3.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
See 1949.281 for note on find spot. Hand drawn site plan found in box with objects (now GO2/12/18) with Z numbers names Lambourne's pit as the find spot/area. Suspect these objects may all be part of the same collection.
Event Date 15/3/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Original description Z 41798 [A-C]: '24 pieces of worked flint and stone, one small fragment of bone and three pieces of charcoal.'
Event Date 15/3/2001
Author: maa


Context (Other)
Leaf refers to gravel diggings close to the Bronze Age barrows at Chippenham, just over the border from Freckenham, in his two publications on those excavations (PCAS vol. 36, p. 149 and PCAS vol. 39, p. 60), which may relate to this site. See also the annotated site plan in the archive (GO2/12/18).
Event Date 30/6/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
24 pieces of stone and flint, worked and unworked. Includes possible hammerstones, blades and scrapers; some firedamaged.
Event Date 6/7/2022
Author: Katrina Dring


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