Context (Related Documents)
A small rectangular printed label adhered to the back of the mount reads: '196'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Object previously mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board, mounted with metal pins. This form of mounting possibly indicates the item was put on display following the First World War, when the museum moved to its current site on Downing Street.
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Related Documents)
Hand-written label adhered to front of display board reads: 'IRON KNIFE. BONE HANDLE. CAMBRIDGE'.
Hand-written label adhered to back of display board reads: 'Knife (bone handle). Cambridge. Freeman Coll.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
'5' in pencil marked on the back of the object's mount.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Esther Laver

Description (Physical description)
Iron knife with bone handle, carved with a honeycomb pattern.
Event Date 14/7/2022
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Knife with bone handle and iron blade. The hollow handle is carved with a honeycomb pattern on its surfaces, with a sharply flaring, flat butt. The iron knife has a flat straight top edge and a sharp bottom edge which curves up to meet the top edge, with a bolster; one surface of the blade is also inscribed with the letter 'S'. The tang extends slightly out of the top of the butt. The blade is corroded, and some corrosion is also visible from the tang through the handle.
Event Date 7/11/2023
Author: Esther Laver