Accession No
1923.1320 B
Description
Bone awl, one end sharpened; roughly triangular in section; tip broken off and missing.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Lakenheath; Norfolk Fen
Period
?Neolithic ?Bronze Age ?Iron Age ?Roman ?Anglo Saxon ?Medieval ?Post Medieval
Source
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [monetary donor]; Gathercole, George P. [vendor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1923.1320 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
135mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Found by ditchers in the fen.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Other)
Accession Register gives the findspot as 'Norfolk Fens', while a later catalogue card gives it as 'Lakenheath, Suffolk'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked 'Norfolk Fen' on one side and the other side marked 'Lakenheath'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1923.1320 A-E: 'Five bone awls.'
Event Date 1923
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Bone awl, one end sharpened; roughly triangular in section; tip broken off and missing.
Event Date 8/2/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang
FM:309199
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