Context (Production / use)
Noted on the catalogue card, in a later hand: 'Probably Frisian origin'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
1948.2485 B.1-24 previously mounted on perspex for display with handwritten label: 'Burnt ivory playing men found in urn 48.2485.a. See p. 17. Fig. 8. Probably 5th century A.D.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Cremation cemetery excavated by T.C. Lethbridge in 1947
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
An urn (1948.2485 A), the gaming pieces (1948.2485 B) and the fragment of burn comb (1948.2485 C) were found together, below another vessel (1950.139).
Event Date 1947
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. 1951. 'A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6. p. 17, Fig. 8
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card: 'Twenty whole and a number of broken ivory gaming pieces in two different sizes.'
Event Date 3/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Ivory gaming piece.
Event Date 16/10/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2017.3978 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 18/10/2017
Author: Dipika Nadkarni

Description (Physical description)
Described by Faye Minter, Jude Plouviez, Ian Riddler, Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski and Rose Broadley, and informed by Sue Anderson, on their visit on 25/11/2019: 'Complete antler or bone gaming piece, circular in shape with a plano-convex section and a flat base. Polished upper surface. Lightly burnt to a brown to grey colour. Riddler type00'
Event Date 25/11/2019
Author: Chloe Pearce

Description (Physical description)
Ivory plano-convex gaming piece, shows evidence of burning.
Event Date 22/10/2020
Author: Louise Puckett

Context (References)
Anderson, S., Briscoe, D., Broadley, R., Minter, F., Plouviez, J., Riddler, I. (2022) Lackford, Suffolk LKD 001. Archive Report on excavations at the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery 2015-6 and research into the 1947-9 excavations. Ipswich, Suffolk County Council. p. 130-131 (site report)
Event Date 4/11/2024
Author: Chloe Pearce