Accession No

Z 24165


Description

One, bearing a number 59 and on a second old label the date 1893, was catalogued as a very fine dagger blade - but see Contexts field below - and the other as an oval knife, which has the date 1895 on an old label attached.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lakenheath


Period

Neolithic


Source


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 24165


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
One, bearing a number 59 and on a second old label the date 1893, was catalogued as a very fine dagger blade - but see Contexts field below - and the other as an oval knife, which has the date 1895 on an old label attached.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
In September 2011, Dr Catherine Frieman, University of Oxford, examined the object described as a dagger blade and identified it as a knife rather than a dagger blade.
Event Date 09/20111
Author: maa


Context (References)
Frieman, Catherine J. (2014). 'Appendix: Catalogue of British (and Irish) Flint Daggers'. Proceedings for the Prehistoric Society, 80. catalogue no. 214.
Event Date 2014
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


FM:21953

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