Accession No

1931.231.5


Description

One near-circular rubbing stone of grey stone with a slight brownish hue. The surface is smoothed overall.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Littleport; Shippea Hill; Plantation Farm


Period

?Beaker Age ?Early Bronze Age


Source

Clark, John Grahame Douglas (Prof.) [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1931.231.5


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Quartzite


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1931.231 reads: 'Hammer-stones of quartzite; one of flint'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Surface finds or from trial trench without stratigraphy. Collected or excavated by J. Grahame Clark in 1931. The site known as Plantation Farm was identified in 1931 by Charles S. Leaf and Clark near Shippea Hill railway station; Clark cut a trial trench and donated the burnt assemblage of unstratified material to the Museum the same year. The site was more fully excavated by Clark under the auspices of the Fenland Research Committee in autumn 1932, the finds of which were donated to the Museum in 1933.
Event Date 1931
Author: maa


Context (References)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Report. February 1932. pp. 3.
Event Date 2/1932
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (References)
Clark, G. et al. (1933). 'Report on an Early Bronze Age Site in the South-Eastern Fens'. Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 pp 266–296.
Event Date 1933
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (References)
Clark, J. Grahame D. (1938). 'Early Man'. The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Salzman, L.F. (ed). Vol. 1. pp. 269–270.
Event Date 1938
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1931.231 [A-B]: 'A number of hammerstones or rubbing stones.'
Event Date 26/3/2014
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
One near-circular rubbing stone of grey stone with a slight brownish hue. The surface is smoothed overall.
Event Date 7/1/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:327859

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