Record ID: CAM-D93F04
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete wooden figurine of Medieval date. The wood is dry preserved having been in a desiccating environment. Weight is 104.95g, height is 172.0mm, maximum width is 43.0mm and maximum thickness is 59.0mm. This incomplete figurine seems to have been carved from a single piece of wood however decay and or damage gives an impression that the neck might have been formed like a piece of doweling and inserted into the head. The artefact is possibly carved from oak, or other ring porous wood, and visual inspection shows radial cracking. Both sides of the head are reduced in width du…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-4580E4
Object type: COMB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A wooden one-piece comb probably of very late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (15th to 17th or 18th century). Dimensions: length 71.56mm, width 60.23mm, thickness 8.63mm, weight 15.8g. Other examples of wooden one-piece combs can be seen on the PAS database, see record numbers DOR-233C91 and LON-81F5E1. Other records of one-piece combs made of bone and Ivory are LVPL-D97777, LON-A4ED83, LON-820367, LON-E40EF3, LON-488B86, LON-A5C847 with dates ranging between the 13th to 18th centuries. This comb is likely to be of a date at the more recent end of the spectrum.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ellington Thorpe Area', grid reference and parish protected.