Description (Labels & Markings)
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Author: Lily Pencliffe

Context (Analysis)
Accessions Register notes, in a later hand: '[probably Langdale].'
Event Date
Author: Peter Rooley

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card in Cyril Fox's hand notes: '?locality'
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Typed catalogue card for 1922.884[1-2]: 'Ground stone axes with squared cutting edge'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1922.884[1-2]: 'Two small celts with squared edge.'
Event Date 1922
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
One of 1922.884 exhibited: Displayed in the Andrews Gallery as part of the 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition March 2009-November 2010. Display label noted 'These Neolithic axes are displayed in a circle, according to their size (from the smallest to the longest, in a clockwise direction). This unusual and apparently random arrangement reflects a real process in archaeological typology. Size can be an important indicator in understanding the different tool uses. For instance, the small axes were used for fine woodwork, the larger ones were employed as efficient forest-clearance axes and the long narrow tools were chisels.'
Event Date 3/2009
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (Other owners)
In 1899 Cole Ambrose purchased Marshall Fisher's collection, which had constituted the Ely Museum from 1842 until Fisher's death in January 1899, which joined his collection at Stuntney Hall until his own death. In 1922 a selection of material from Ambrose's collection were purchased by MAA (see Doc.473), including some from Marshall Fisher's Ely Museum. However, any documentation accompanying the Fisher objects to Stutney Hall were missing by 1922, so ascertaining which of the Cole Ambrose Collection were originally collected by Fisher, and displayed in the Ely Museum, is difficult. (see Holeman, N. (1992). 'A Different Kind of Cambridge Antiquarian: Marshall Fisher and his Ely Museum'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 79. pp. 82-92). Several polished stone axes owned by Fisher are mentioned in Evans' Ancient Stone Implements (1872): 'Greenstone celts of about this size, and with the sides more or less flat... are of not uncommon occurrence in the Fen country. Mr. Fisher, of Ely, has one, found near Manea, and several from Bottisham' (p. 116). If any of these axes were amongst Fisher's collection that was purchased by Ambrose, and then part of the selection of material made by MAA to join the collection in 1922, then the most likely candidates are 1922.884.1 and 1922.884.2 which both have flat sides and could be described as of greenstone; 1922.883 is also possible, being made of greenstone, but has rounded edges. The Place field has therefore been updated to tentatively include Manea and Bottisham, but this must be viewed with caution.
Event Date 19/7/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Ground stone axe with squared cutting edge. Possibly Langdale.
Event Date 19/7/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)