The Adam Park Project

Item Information:

Catalogue Number: 09/07/020 Source: TAPP Archaeology Surveys Location: No9 Adam Park Report No: Report No.16 Artifact Type: Tools Production Date: 2013-01-16 00:00:00 Dimensions of Item: See Report 16 Copyright with The Adam Park Project

Other Description:

The largest and most impressive single item found during the survey at No.9 Adam Park was a set of military wirecutters. Although the item may have been used post war by the tenants or post battle by the POWs it has most likely been lost during the fighting by the Cambridgeshires.

Historic Context:

Military cutters of this type were issued to British troops throughout the First World War and were still in the inventory at the beginning of the next. The Type 37 webbing included a special carrying case for the cutters that folded up in order to stow them in the holder. The historic written record often refers to the Cambridgeshires Pioneer Platoon setting up barbed obstructions around the estate including a three coil dannert wire fence strung between No’s 19 and 20 Adam Park, up between No.11 and No.12 and across onto the ‘Back Road’. Other wire fences were set up round the perimeter of the estate. The Pioneer Platoon as part of the battalion HQ Company dug in around No.7 Adam Park. It is likely the item belonged to this unit.