Accession No
TEMP.01745.42
Description
39 pieces of flint, possibly including blades and scrapers; 15 sherds from multiple vessels, including three rim sherds, two of grey fabrics, one of orange fabric.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge; Western Bypass M11
Period
Mesolithic Neolithic ?Roman
Source
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
TEMP.01745.42; M11 248/+ [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery; 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
Description (Physical description)
39 pieces of flint, possibly including blades and scrapers; 15 sherds from multiple vessels, including three rim sherds, two of grey fabrics, one of orange fabric.
Event Date 18/5/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:296638
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