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
FM:20379
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