[{"id": 135931, "created": "2020-04-06T14:32:24.981797", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84081, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-06T15:19:21.347743", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c TL 96;97", "Site": "SUFFOLK;[St. EDMUNDSBURY];PAKENHAM;BARTON MERE", "CollHist": "Moyses Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds. 1977-690 (OS) Item (1).\r\nWhereabouts of metal finds in 1834 unknown ; animal bones in Bristol Museum.\r\nHistory\r\nThe Spearhead (1) presented to Moyses Hall Museum in 1974 by Major General Westworth Reeve. [Reference (f) quoting (d) in which the date of the find is given as 1867 instead of 1868 given in original account by the finder (a)]\r\nGeneral Wentworth Reeve bought Barton Mere House in c 1949 from a Mr Quale-Jones and the spearhead went with the house.", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Basal-looped spearhead\r\nOther\r\n(2) Large quantities of broken animal bones and horns (wild and domestic animals)\r\n(3) Sherds of hand made pottery\r\n(4) Flint implements, cores & flakes\r\n(5) Calcined flints & pieces of burnt sandstone", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 8.10.80", "ContextType": "? 3a or ? 7c / Organic", "BiblioSources": "(a) Jones (1869) 31-36\r\n(b) Dawkins (1880) 352\r\n(c) Evans (1881) 486\r\n(d) Jones (1910) 169\r\n(e) Clarke (1960) 84\r\n(f) Owles (1976) 216\r\nSee letter from Miss Owles 6.11.80", "Circumstances": "Found in the late summer of 1868 during explorations by the Rev. Harry Jones. Barton Mere dries up in drought conditions and in 1834 the Rev. Jones's grandfather had had a quantity of peat-coloured clay dug out to spead over his land. The resultant hole, on two later occasions when the water was low, saved enough to keep some of the fish alive and provided a pond for cattle. There was a tradition that large quantities of animal bones & horns had been found, also pointed stakes and several \"bayonets\" and \"round brass things\". (The bones had been sent to Bristol Museum, so this part of the tradition was confirmed). After the dry summer of 1868, in the hope of further finds, the Rev. Jones sent some men to dig in the lowest part of the Mere. Nothing was found in the first two pits but in the third the workmen found a small oval structure of wattles 5' 7\" x 3' 10\" sunk into the chalk marl which forms the bottom of the mere. When the mud within and surrounding the structure had been cleared away, a layer of flints was exposed, and the water rose within the structure quite clear. The Rev. Jones conjectured that the purpose of the wattled structure was to provide a clean water supply. A mere hole would have got muddy and the sides have caved in whereas the rude wattle structure with flints to act as a filter, would have answered such a purpose. It appeared that when the Mere was dry a hole had been dug, larger than the wattled structure. Fourteen stakes had then been driven into the marl and an 8\" layer of broken flints spread over the bottom of the hole, both inside & outside and also between the stakes. Twigs had then been woven round the uprights, the top of the wattling being on a level with the surface of the marl. The structure was surrounded with occupation material - large quantities of animal bones, and horns (2), Sherds of hand-made pottery (3) flint implements, cores and flakes (4) also calcined flints and pieces of burnt sandstone (5) Most of the occupation debris was found on the surface of the marl, which had been somewhat disturbed here, and some occupation material was found in the peat-coloured stratum, here mixed with marl, overlying bedrock to a depth of about 8\". The spearhead (1) lay on top of this layer, beneath dark clay. The workman who claimed to have dug out the \"bayonets\" nearly 40 years before, said they had been just like the spearhead.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 138552, "created": "2020-05-08T13:26:48.025812", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84081, "user_id": 243, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-05-08T13:47:05.580317", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c TL 96 97", "Site": "SUFFOLK; [St. EDMUNDSBURY]; PAKENHAM; BARTON MERE", "CollHist": "Moyses Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds. 1977-690 (05) Item (1).  Whereabouts of remaining objects unknown (Whereabouts of metal finds in 1834 unknown; animal finds in Bristol museum / History; The spearhead (1) presented to Moyses Hall Museum in 1974 by Major General Wentworth Reeve.  [Reference (f) quoting (d) in which the date of the find is given as 1867 instead of 1868 given in original account by the finder (a)]; General Wentworth Reeve brought Barton Mere Home in c 1949 from a Mr Quale-Jones and the spearhead went with the house.", "Contents": "Metal; (1) Basal-looped spearhead; Other; (2) Large quantities of broken animal bones and horns (wild and domestic animals); (3) Sherds of hand made pottery; (4) Flint implements, cores & flakes; (5) Calcined flints & pieces of burnt sandstone", "comments": "Added the word [would] in Circumstances, bracket marked.  Open parenthesis in Collection does not have a close parenthesis mark.  Question marks in Content Type are original to card and not transcriber's notes.", "ArchiveEtc": "[Rec.] S.H. 8.10.80", "ContextType": "? 3a or ? 7c / Organic", "BiblioSources": "(a) Jones (1869) 31-36; (b) Dawkins (1880) 352; (c) Evans (1881) 486; (d) Jones (1910) 169; (e) Clarke (1960) 84; (f) Owles (1976) 215; See letter from Miss Owles 6.11.80", "Circumstances": "Found in the late summer of 1868 during explorations by the Rev. Harry Jones.  Barton Mere dries up in drought conditions and in 1834 the Rev. Jone's grandfather had, had a quantity of peat-coloured clay dug out to spread over his land.  The resultant hole, on two later occasions when the water was low, saved enough to keep some of the fish alive and provided a pond for cattle.  There was a tradition that large quantities of animal bones & horns had been found, also pointed stakes and; continued; several \"bayonets\" and \"round brass things\".  (The bones had been sent to Bristol Museum, so this part of the tradition was confirmed).  After the dry summer of 1868, in the hope of further finds, the Rev. Jones sent some men to dig in the lowest part of the mere.  Nothing was found in the first two pits but in the third the workmen found a small oval structure of wattles 5' 7\" x 3' 10\" sunk into the chalk marl which forms the bottom of the mere.  When the mud within and surrounding the structure had been cleared away, a layer of flints was exposed, and the water rose within the structure quite clear.  The Rev. Jones conjectured that the purpose of the wattled structure was to provide a clean water supply.  A mere hole would have got muddy and the sides [would] have caved in whereas the rude wattle structure with flints to act as a filler, would have answered such a purpose.  It appeared that when the Mere was dry a hole had been dug, larger than the wattled structure.  Fourteen stakes had then been driven into the marl and an 8\" layer of broken flints spread over the bottom of the hole, both inside & outside and also between the stakes.  Twigs had been been woven round the uprights, the top of the wattling being on a level with the surface of the marl.  The structure was surrounded with occupation material - large quantities of animal bones, and horns (2), sherds of hand-made pottery (3) flint implements, cores and flakes (4) also calcined flints and pieces of burnt sandstone (5) Most of the occupation debris was found on the surface of the marl, which had been somewhat disturbed here, and some occupation material was found in the peat-coloured stratum, here mixed with marl, overlaying bedrock to a depth of about 8\".  The spearhead (1) lay on top of this layer, beneath dark clay.  The workman who claimed to have dug out the \"bayonets\" nearly 40 years before, said they had been just like the spearhead.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]