Accession No
TEMP.01745.4
Description
21 pieces of worked flint including blades an scrapers, and possibly including the butt of a ground flint axe.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Western Bypass M11
Period
Mesolithic Neolithic
Source
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
TEMP.01745.4; M11 7/+ [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Flint
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found, unaccessioned, in a box marked ‘Cambridge Western Bypass M11 Field-Walking Finds’, in a larger box marked ‘Cambridge M11/Newmarket Bypass Fieldwalking Finds’. The Cambridge Western Bypass M11 material was assigned the TEMP number TEMP.01745 and the Newmarket Bypass material was assigned TEMP.01746, TEMP.01751 and TEMP.01752.
The M11 fieldwalking material was likely to have been collected prior to the Bypass’ opening in 1974; it is not currently known when it entered the museum.
Event Date 17/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten envelope reads: 'M11 7/+ Butt of ground flint axe.'
Event Date 18/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
Description (Physical description)
21 pieces of worked flint including blades an scrapers, and possibly including the butt of a ground flint axe.
Event Date 18/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:296549
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