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 rounded rubbing stone of white quartzite with minor black veining and inclusions.
Event Date 7/1/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung