Description (Physical description)
Record for 1931.898 A/Record 2 [incorrect]: 'Waisted awl. Thin point and thin square-sectioned tang.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Bronze pin or awl, found near a skeleton.
Event Date 20/5/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Found: Found lying on a layer of compressed sedges 2.0" to 3.0" thick, which rested directly on undisturbed clay, and was covered by 1' 9" of peat. The site was 28 yards away from an " Old Run" (extinct waterway); Collected in : According to the workmen' s account the skeleton lay on its face, with one arm across its face and the other extended; the beads were round the wrist of the extended arm. The skeleton was not examined in situ, but T.C.Lethbridge visited the site immediately afterwards and was able to see exactly where it had lain and to recover the pin; Ref. Plate: cf. Evans pl. 225
Event Date 20/5/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Lethbridge, T.C. 1950. 'Excavation of the Snailwell Group of Bronze Age Barrows' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. XLIII, p. 35 and footnote 3.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Lethbridge, T.C. 1932. 'A Skeleton of the Early Bronze Age Found in the Fens' in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, vol. 6 (no. 4), p. 362, Pl. XXXIII.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
This object was incorrectly given two records: this one and 1931.898 A/Record 2. The latter should be disregarded (see Context of that record for details) but the description information has been copied over.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Bronze waisted pin or awl with thin points on either end and thin square-sectioned tang.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
The 1932 Lethbridge article implies (in the description of Plate XXXIII) that the female skeleton, beads and awl/pin were uncovered in 1920. The report on the skull (p. 364) indicates that it was once held by museum along with the beads and awl/pin.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
The accession register gives the location as Southery Fen, Isle of Ely - thereby implying the county of Cambridgeshire; the annual report and the catalogue card give the county as Norfolk. The latter is correct (although the confusion is understandable as Southery is near the border). Both the annual report and the accession register give the donor as Major Gordon Fowler, but for an unknown reason the catalogue card gives the source as the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, which as been transcribed into the CMS record. As the annual report and accession register agree, this has been removed and Fowler listed instead.
Event Date 22/4/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn