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

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in very faded black ink: '[unclear] [KE]NTFORD'
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in blue ink: '619. Kentford'
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Flint; Stone Beaker Knife
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Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Listed in the Catalogue of the Fox Collection (GO1/1/25) as being purchased, along with many other objects from Kentford and other places, for £15 in 1914. It appears they were purchased from C.R. Jennings, perhaps over three separate dates: 12 September 2014, 28 September 2014 and 28 October 1914. This Beaker knife is not explicitly mentioned within the 200 objects from Kentford purchased at the time.
Event Date 9/1914
Author: Imogen Gunn

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

Context (References)
Loveday, R. (2011). 'Polished rectangular flint knives- elaboration or replication?'. Saville, A. (editor) Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period, Neolithic Studies
Group Seminar Papers 11. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 234- 246.
Event Date 2011
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
C.R. Jennings has been added to the Source field as a collector based on his presence in Fox's catalogue.
Event Date 20/10/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Metzger (2017): This artefact is rectangular shaped flint tool that has been bifacially worked. It was made of a little grey flint and has two polished edges. This tool two polished edges and one side that has some post-depositional damage. There is a step fracture (a flake that ends abruptly with a 90-degree break causing the entire flake to not be removed) on one side but not sure if it is from manufacture or post- depositional.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Metzger (2017): This piece falls into the category of Polished-edge Type IV. This category is Clark’s Type IV. This shape warrants its own category as the shape is completely different than the others and they are manufactured different as well. The faces and edges of this tool are usually completely polishing with a few exceptions; this tool makes number four in those exceptions. This artefact was found in Kentford, Suffolk.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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.
Event Date 9/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Rowland, Jake Thomas, (June 2024). Beyond Symbols of Power: an integrated multi-scalar study of the life histories of Middle Neolithic elaborate objects. Unpublished PhD Thesis submitted to University of Southampton. p.176, 179, 311. fig. 7.2, 7.5.
Event Date 6/2024
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson