Description (Labels & Markings)
Hand-written label affixed to object reads: 'micaceous schist'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Display)
Previously mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board along with 1908.54 B with handwritten label reading 'A 1908.56/ Hones (micaceous schist). Barton, C., 1908. The Camb. Ant. Soc. See, Proc. C.A.S., vol. xii [A. 1908.56. a, b.]'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Display)
Old display label found with object reads: 'A 1908.51-75/ OBJECTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT BARTON, C., 1908. (Superintended by the Rev. F.G. Walker) The Cambridge Antiquarian Society. See: Walker: Proc. C.A.S., vol. XII.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Related Documents)
See Accession Register and catalogue card for a sketch diagram.
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Walker, F.G. (1908). 'Report on the Excavations at Barton'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 12(4). pp. 296-313. Pl. XXIV.
Event Date 1908
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Black Ash Ditch. Excavated by Rev. Frederick George Walker, sponsored by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, in 1908.
Event Date 1908
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1908.56 [A-L]: 'Five small hones of fine grained micaceous schist, including two thin, flat, with single perforations at one end. ' And in a later hand 'Also frag[ments] of 7 others.'
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
In his 1908 article, Rev. F.G. Walker dated most of the finds from his Barton Moats excavation to the Iron Age (‘late Celtic’) and Roman periods, which was then reflected in their Accession Register and Annual Report entries. In 1956, John G. Hurst ('Saxo-Norman Pottery in East Anglia.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 49. p. 50) identified the site and most of the finds as being Saxo Norman in date and, presumably on this basis, in 1978 Mary Cra’ster amended the 1908 Accession Register entry to read ‘Saxo Norman’. When this record was digitised, however, it was entered as ‘Saxo Norman; Iron Age’; it has now been updated and ‘Iron Age’ removed.
Event Date 12/2/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Hone stone of fine grained micaceous schist. Flat, roughly rectangular in shape but edges uneven, circular perforation at one end.
Event Date 14/2/2024
Author: maa