Record ID: NLM-FA24C1
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Stone rubber or polisher. A fine-grained Sandstone chunk, possibly half of an originally cylindrical object, with smooth curved sides and flat top with one groove near its edge. The other two adjacent flat sides are both slightly ridged or grooved in the same direction, with about four ridges or grooves passing across that face which preserves these details best. In its present form, the object sits well in the hand if either of the flat faces are used. The improvised use of rubbers and sharpeners and polishers extends from Prehistory, through the Roman period and into the Early Mediev…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-65E80A
Object type: FOB
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold and glass fob seal, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin casing of reddish gold with a billeted band passing round three sides to afford grip and with a billeted frame for a flat polished opaque black glass gem engraved with the image of a snake passing left through long grass, with the reversed legend above: BEWARE. The base of the casing is dented. Richard Hudson kindly and promptly comments as follows: 'I was just looking through the Finds Database and came across the fob NLM-65E80A. It has been described as depicting a snail in the grass but I’d suggest that th…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AE2C6B
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone rubber. A water-rolled pebble with abundant black flecks to diameter 3mm, with one flattened sub-triangular surface. The object is of a size to fit snugly in the hand and may have been used for a grinding or polishing task using the flat face. The use of a probable Glacial Erratic for such purposes might be ascribed to Prehistory, or indeed any time up to the Viking Age, when the international supply of stone for specialist purposes was revived. Suggested date: Unknown, Neolithic to Early Medieval, 4000BC-AD850 Height: 42.5mm, Width: 49.2mm, Weight: 136.26gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-C88BBC
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone possible gaming piece of possible Roman date, AD 43 - 410. The object is formed from a very smooth circular pebble, identified by the finder as Cornish greenstone. The pebble has two shallowly convex faces and rounded sides. It would have functioned well as a counter or gaming piece. It may have been naturally formed but collected for use as a playing piece. Measurements are; diameter 24.3mm, thickness 7.5mm and weight 6.74g. The stone is dark brown, fine grained and smooth, but with a slightly pitted surface under magnification. There appears to be a high quartz content.…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-6033AD
Object type: SADDLE QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained Limestone saddle quern. A neat sub-rectangular block of stepped wedge-shaped profile, worn on its upper surface with a flat base which is indented only at its thicker end. The form is Neolithic, and a saddle quern would be used with a separate cobble grinding stone to grind corn to a coarse flour, and hence marks the advent of arable farming in the area whence it was reported. The small size and flat base – the latter perhaps suggesting use on a flat surface or even a table, which would be a remarkable feature to postulate in a Neolithic settlement – are perhap…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E38598
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavy butted Neolithic fully ground and polished flint axe, of white patinated flint with a slightly grey inclusions to one face, all surfaces have both spotty iron stains and streaks from contact with agricultural machinery. The axe has been damaged at some point to the cutting edge, it appears that a large flake has initiated at the cutting edge (presumably in use) and has left a “plunging” flake to one face, the flake has terminated in a large step fracture, this is a common feature to axes that have broken in use, like NMS-7AE7C9, NMS-E21D6A and NMS-4EA515, the last t…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-396F9C
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic to early Bronze Age polished stone perforated object, dating to c. 2800 - 2100 BC. The object is sub-rectangular with slightly convex sides, it is pointed oval in section. Positioned in the centre is a circular perforation which has a slight hourglass form. The butt of the object is slightly rounded towards the butt and shows some wear through use. The opposing edge slopes more sharply into the cutting edge, this is mostly worn through use. The surface on all sides is smooth and only slightly pitted. The stone is dark grey in colour.  Length: 102 mm…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: CORN-78FCD8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked ground and polished axehead, of a black hue, of probable Bronze Age date. Found with items possibly of the Bronze Age period, but its dating in relation to these finds could not be verified, as it was an historical find, once part of the Zennor Wayside museum's collections, and so, its exact geospatial provenance is unknown. The axehead is rectangular in shape with a ground flat bladed edge. The sides have been ground and polished flat and smooth. It appears a lot of effort has been applied in the production of this tool. The end has been rounded o…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-78F62C
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worked stone or rubbing stone or 'muller' of unknown date, but probable prehistoric, given its findspot context. It is likely constructed from a fine-grained granite. The fragment is trapezoidal in plan. On one side it has been ground flat with a slight indentation, and the other side has been ground in a convex shape. The complete end has been rounded and shaped smooth which follow the lines of the sides. The broken edge appears to have been worked, so as to smooth out the damage. Measurements : length 69.53mm, width 54.2954.29mm, thickn…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-28E568
Object type: WORKED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked stone, made from a white granitic stone, of probable Neolithic date, considering the context in which it was found. It was possibly used as a scraper. Dimensions: Remaining length, 50.05mm, remaining width, 44.43mm, thickness, 21.25mm. Weight: 59g.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-28ABAB
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of 3 almost-complete probable whetstones, of prehistoric date (likely Mesolithic to Bronze Age c.8300-800 BC). The object is a oval shaped pebble, especially worn on one edge, of heavily patinated dark brown coloured stone, probably gabbroic in nature.  Dimensions (objects from L-R): Whetstone 1 (the largest): Remaining length, 105.67, width, 40.82mm, thickness, 19.97mm. Weight: 131g. Whetstone 2 (the smallest): Remaining length, 72.26mm, width, 30.35mm, thickness, 13.17mm. Weight: 53g. Whetstone 3: Remaining length, 86.68mm, width, 48…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: CORN-28A88C
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken probable hammerstone of prehistoric date (likely Mesolithic to Bronze Age c.8300-800 BC). The object is a sub-rounded shaped pebble of heavily patinated light brown coloured stone, probably gabbroic in nature. Dimensions: Remaining length, 51.03mm, diameter, 39.4mm. Weight: 110g.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: CORN-28A5F4
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete hammer stone of prehistoric date (likely Mesolithic to Bronze Age c.8300-800 BC). The object is a sub-rounded shaped pebble of heavily patinated grey coloured stone, probably gabbroic in nature. Dimensions: Diameter, 48.18mm. Weight: 130g.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: CORN-28A1C2
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A relatively worn blade end of a greenstone adzehead, of probable late Neolithic - early Bronze Age date, made from weathered greenstone meta-gabbro. Greenstones axe or adze heads were commonplace during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Cornwall.  'Greenstone' is actually a general archaeological term, rather than meaning a specific stone. It is commonly used to refer to any green-hued minerals that were used during the Prehistoric, to make tools, jewellery etc... To make matters even more complicated, various antiquarian literature in Cornwall calls this…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-289DE3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of relatively worn greenstone axeheads, of probable late Neolithic - early Bronze Age date. Likely made from blue Elvan.  The larger is the blade half of an axe-head, and the smaller is the blade end of a possible Group 1 adzehead. Greenstones axe or adze heads were commonplace during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Cornwall.  'Greenstone' is actually a general archaeological term, rather than meaning a specific stone. It is commonly used to refer to any green-hued minerals that were used during the Prehistoric, to make tools, jewellery etc.…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-E82001
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible quern fragment, likely from the base. It looks to be made from a pitted greenstone. Due to its findspot context, it is likely to be Iron Age in dating, although secure dating is impossible, given its fragmentary state, but it is likely to be of prehistoric-Iron Age dates. It still has evidence of a grinding surface, and the curvature around the edge of the grinding surface (where this surface meets the edge of the stone) suggests that when intact, the entire object was circular in shape. Using this curvature to estimate the overall diameter of the grinding surface, it wo…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: SOM-1B9EFA
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished flint axehead dating to the Neolithic period, c. 4000 BC to 2351 BC. Only the cutting edge of the axehead survives and is D-shaped in plan and ovate in section. The cutting edge is noticably sharp. The axehead is made of a light and dark brown mottled flint, and there is a hinge fracture to the front of the axehead. There is also a separate flake taken off the reverse side of the axehead, it is inclear if this is a use break or deliberate break. The polished surface has been visibly worn by natural causes likely during later movement of …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-F0EDD7
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of stone, possibly a fragment of a quern, of Roman to medieval date, (c.43 AD - 1500 AD). Description: The fragment is broadly triangular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. The longer, curved edge of the triangle shape suggests the outer edge of a quern stone, though this edge is very rough. The other edges are broken. One face is worked. On the worked face, there is a dished indentation whose curved edge is parallel to the line of the curved outer edge. This indentation is probably part of the central hollow of the lower stone of a quern. There is no …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-9C5D42
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ground and polished stone axehead. Cornish Group I. The surfaces are heavily weathered and quite rough. It has a transverse break across the body and only about half of the axehead remains.The cutting edge is not present. It tapers gently to a slightly rounded and asymmetrical butt. One side has a slight ridge, the other is faceted. It has an elliptical cross section. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 95 mm x 56 mm x 31 mm Weight: 263 g Mik Markham carried out a macro examination of the material of the axehead and noted the following: The material…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NLM-5A8647
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Granite pebble hammerstone. A large rounded water-worn cobble of a pale hard igneous rock, probably granite from Glacial Drift. Both ends are brightened and scarred by use as a pounding or hammering tool. The finder kindly notes that an area of the more extensively battered end was reused as a polisher, which has smoothed this zone over a length of 32mm. Suggested date: probably Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC Length: 89.7mm, Width: 68.6mm, Thickness: 43.8mm, Weight: c.410gms
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4BA85A
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Quartz plough pebble. About one half of an oval quartz pebble, worn to a flat surface across its putative middle with unidirectional fine scoring marks on the flat surface. Kevin Leahy identifies such objects as plough pebbles, considering they were driven into the mould board of a plough to reduce the erosion of the wood by the heavy wear incurred during the use of a plough, with unidirectional wear patterns arising from this setting. These were first identified in Scandinavia, and their British appearance may signal a minor technological introduction by the Vikings. Suggested date: E…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4B38C5
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone polisher, as kindly identified by the finder. A sub-spherical water-rolled pebble with a pale grey surface and smooth overall, with a restricted very smooth zone of length 27mm. The use of such objects as craft tools is likely until the end of the early medieval period, though the finder opines the find-spot to be especially productive of material dated to the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Suggested date: possibly Bronze Age, 2350-800 BC. Length: 45.7mm, Width: 41.8mm, Thickness: 29.6mm, Weight: 77.01gms
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-3814E8
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken hammer stone possibly made from metamorphic sandstone quartzite of an uncertain date. Circular in profile, the rounded end shows signs of wear, from localised hammering, with a broken section missing from the working surface. It is of probable Neolithic to Bronze Age date, as compared to other hammer stones in local museum collections. Measurements:  74.76mm long, 76.56mm diameter and weighs 533g.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-23DAD3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone probable Whetstone of Bronze Age to Post-Medieval date (1000 BC - AD 1800). The object is a greenstone whetstone, sub-rectangular in plan, profile and section, the surfaces are smoothed. The dorsal and ventral faces are worn smooth and flat through use as a whetstone to sharpen metalwork. One end terminates in an abraded break and there is a chip in one side probably caused by agricultural machinery since deposition. the retmaining end is sub-square and flat.  Length: 109.83mm, Width: 23.83mm, Thickness: 20.23mm, Weight: 104.5g Jones …
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-DF9EEA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone polished axehead. Greenstone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 128.9mm, Width: 61.7mm, Thickness: 34.9mm
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D88224
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a large sub-rectangular sectioned whetstone, of fine-grained non micaceous mid grey stone with lighter, linier streaks throughout, both ends are broken, the surviving section appears to be the centre with all sides constricted from use wear, one only subtlety worn, one face has a prominent, rounded groove that runs down the length on the centre, this must have been wear from one specialised form of grinding or sharpening.
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D82BE3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a whetstone of fine-grained non micaceous mid-grey stone, perforated at one end by a drilled hole with a slightly “hourglass” cross section, this originally made the recorder think that this may have been a Beaker period stone wrist bracer with a single hole, further research has shown many of the whetstones from the Early Medieval/Medieval period had similar profiled perforations and is now much more likely to be of this later date and function. One lateral edge and the end with the perforation is ground to a thin, pointed edge, the opposing side is flat, almos…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-353814
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone quern fragment. A sub-triangular chunk of fine grained red-buff Sandstone, possibly reused as a sharpening stone. The overall form includes a short [40mm] extent of a curved edge, and an aris where two flat surfaces meet at an acute angle opposite the curved side; the intervening surface is flat and probably lightly dished by wear, the fourth large side is broken. These characteristics could point to this being a fragment of a rotary quern of estimated original diameter 260mm. The Romano-British period also saw the use of a wide range of sharpening and polishing stones, which…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-3A19B1
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Neolithic greenstone polished axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2500 BC. Possibly a product of the Langdale Pike axe factory, Group VI, produced as an oval rough-out and finished by fine polishing which emphasises the natural banding of the stone to striking decorative effect. The remaining fragment is trapezoidal in plan and pointed oval in cross-section. Both ends terminate in old breaks. The surface has been highly polished.  Length: 32.2 mm Width: 38.3 mm Thickness: 22.1 mm Weight: 25.85 mm The Langdale greenstone axes were traded from a quarry on Langdale …
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: ESS-BE7117
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete whetstone or honestone of unknown date. Description: The object made from dark grey stone. It is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular and in profile. One side is flat and the other side curves down to the thin end from about half way along the length. The butt has a V-shaped slot. Measurements: Length: 107.5mm long, 33.2mm wide, 17.7mm thick (at the butt), weight 112.96g.
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-BDF267
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished stone axe of Neolithic date (4000-2500BC) Description: The axe is made from mid grey stone with iron staining in places, it has been knapped and then polished to give a smooth appearance. The surface has some later damage where flakes have chipped off, particularly along the cutting edge, which appear darker grey. The axe is sub-triangular in plan and lenticular in cross section. It is narrower at the butt end, measuring 25.2mm wide and 10.6mm thick. It is thickest at the mid-section, measuring 30.8mm. It is widest at the curved cutting edge, measuring 48.4mm …
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: NLM-82E506
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast domed or beehive-shaped thimble with a narrow plain basal zone and the rest of its wall occupied by tiny hand-stamped pits which appear as if stamped in vertical rows. Similar-sized pits on the top appear to follow a left-hand spiral arrangement originating at the apex. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500 Diameter: 18.2mm, Height: 13.6mm, Thickness (wall): 1.3mm, Weight: 3.67gms
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton upon Humber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-B70CE7
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete Neolithic polished stone axe/axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is formed from a fine grained volcanic tuff, possibly from Langdale although it is not as fine grained as other examples.  It is impossible to say for certain without petrological analysis of the rock. The axe is a pointed oval shape in plan with a wide crescent shaped cutting edge. All the knapping scars have been removed through polishing. The butt end is incomplete and has a small section missing. The cutting edge is also damaged, there is a large semi-circular missing…
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-B342ED
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete worked and polished flint axehead of neolithic date (c.4000-2350BC). Description: The object is sub-oval in plan, tapering from the crescentic blade end to the square butt. It is lenticular in cross-section and profile. It has a sharpened cutting end with the pointed edge extending around the entire object. Both faces are smoothly polished. It is made of a light and dark brown mottled flint. There are some chips to the blade end and butt end.  Measurements: 147.4mm in length, 68.2mm in width, 42.9mm in maximum thickness, 532g
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Record ID: OXON-747D12
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval bead: The bead is made of quartz which has been polished. It is a long oval shape with the suspension hole running the length of the bead. It measures 18.29mm long, 11.06mm wide, 7.93mm thick and weighs 2.08g. A similar bead has been recorded on the PAS database LIN-0E8FB6 which was dated to the 6th to 7th century, although no evidence was given for the dating. 
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th May 2023
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Record ID: NLM-63092B
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone possible counter. A small sub-circular polished pebble, with two opposed faces rubbed and one lightly flattened. Playing pieces such as this are most common from Roman contxts where they were used for board games such as Tabula [backgammon]. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 13.4mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 1.33gms
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-4DA3F9
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A relatively worn, pitted greenstone axehead, of probable Neolithic date. Measurements: Length, 131.11mm; Width, 75.02mm (37.93 at butt end); Thickness, 33.39mm. Weight: 531g
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 31st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-232D28
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic sandstone polished axehead dating c. 4000-2200 BC. The tool has been polished into an elongated sub-triangular shape with an oval cross-section at the butt and a slightly more lenticular cross-section at the cutting edge. The axehead tapers with slightly convex sides from the narrow rounded butt, (measuring 13.4mm wide by 12.6mm thick), to the curved cutting edge. The surface is abraded with no original surface remaining; and entirely covered with diagonal raised veins caused through chemical weathering due to the environmen…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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Record ID: NLM-D459FD
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fine-grained pale Limestone game piece. A probably lathe-turned concavo-convex counter with a worn concentric pattern on its lightly concave display side. A similar form resulted from the improvised making of counters from small pot bases, and also from slices of turned bone or antler. These pieces would be used for board games like tabula [related to backgammon]. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 27.6mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 10.10gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-B5303A
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ground and polished axehead, Mik Markham has identified the material as granite. It is crystalline and medium grained. Pale green in colour, the grains include quartz, feldspar and a few iron minerals. The surface is pecked and not deeply polished. It has a tapered and pinched butt. The sides are flattened. The faces are both convex and taper in to the narrowed cutting edge. The profile at the cutting edge is slightly asymmetrical. There is an indentation in the centre of one face which may be deliberate. Date: Neolithic Dimensions: 148 mm x 58 mm x 41 mm Wei…
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th December 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-744B09
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped, ground and polished stone axehead of late Neolithic date, c. 2700 - 2300 BC. The axehead is formed of a fine grained red/brown stone. The axehead is sub-ovate in plan; narrower at the butt end with sides which widen to the crescentic cutting edge. The axe has a slight humped profile and a regular oval cross section. A large transverse break is present to one surface. The blade end exhibits prominent crescentic polished facets to both sides reflecting how the cutting edge has been ground and sharpened. It is impossible to source axes such as these wi…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cottam', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-F77EE5
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic axehead dating to circa 4000-2350 BC. Uncertain rock type  Measurements: Length, 143.15mm; Width, 72.89mm; (39.52mm at butt end); Thickness, 35.41mm. Weight: 469g
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-F66726
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic greenstone axehead dating to circa 4000-2350 BC. The axehead is in two pieces and has been glued together by the finder. It is probably the tip of an axehead with the butt end missing at the break.  It is formed of greenstone, an igneous rock which found throughout the south west of England. has been subjected to low grade metamorphism, which is found throughout the south west of England. There are clusters around Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Land's End peninsula.  Measurements: Length, 106.48mm; Width, 67.05mm; (60.47mm at break end)…
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-F57557
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic greenstone axehead dating to circa 4000-2350 BC. It is pointed oval in section. It flares outwards from the butt end to the crescentic cutting edge. The surface is singificantly weathered and rolled, with the original polished surface now having eroded.  It is formed of greenstone, an igneous rock which found throughout the south west of England. has been subjected to low grade metamorphism, which is found throughout the south west of England. There are clusters around Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Land's End peninsula.  Measurements: Lengt…
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-CA36B3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ground and polished Neolithic stone axehead dating to c. 4000 - 2350 BC made from a fairly coarse grained light grey-green material. The axehead is sub triangular in shape with a lentoid cross section. There are chips and scratches on all surfaces probably caused by agricultural activity, but overall the axehead is complete. It has a flared cutting edge and has been re-ground on one side creating an angled, asymmetrical cutting edge. The axe tapers to the butt which is damaged. Length:  173.2 mm Width:  80.3 mm    Thickness:  43.9 mm    Weight…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-C88C09
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished Early Neolithic flint axehead dating to c. 4000-3000 BC.  The flint is a mottled light cream/grey and has been polished all over apart from the edges where there are remains of retouch.  The axehead is long, straight in plan with a clear edge and butt end.  In section at the centre point the axehead is a pointed oval.  Retouch:  Extent: long; Type: scaled; Angle: crossed abrupt. There is some later damage at one end. Length 123.4mm, maximum width 37.3mm, maximum thickness 23.8mm.  Weight: 140 grams.&n…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: WILT-7C9C68
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic greenstone axehead, dating to c. 4000-2350 BC. It has broken at the butt  end where it is circular in section, becoming a pointed oval at the edged end. The axehead is a basic igneous rock which has been subjected to low grade metamorphism.   It is a dark greenish grey in colour with two iron stainings which are approximately 2cms x 1cm in size. The texture of the axehead is a mottled medium grain - grains can be seen by the naked eye.  It would have originally been ground and polished smooth, but as this has not, it may sugges…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: NLM-5F0356
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff flint with very marked patina suggesting a long period of exposure to a calcareous environment; possible polished flint axehead fragment. A small chunk which may preserve the crescentic cutting edge of a polished flint axe; if this is so, the other side of the blade has been pitted by frost fractures and/or other impact damage, and the butt and most of the body of the axe are lost. Suggested date: Early to Mid Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC Length: 36.7mm, Height: 36.9mm, Thickness: 18.7mm, Weight: 21.25gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baumber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-A5E0DF
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic polished stone axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a rounded narrow butt end and a wider rounded blade end and generally straight sides. It is pointed oval in section. The blade edge is blunted and feels well worn along its edge and feels sharp along part of its length.  The opposed, butt edge is rounded. The sides are sharply angled but are not sharp.  . The axehead is made from a pale grey stone and has a smooth surface. Length: 77 mm Width: 51 mm Thickness: 23 mm Weight: 129.14 g
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-354723
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint with cortex pebble, possible plough pebble. Over half of a water-rounded flint cobble with a single flat face which is rounded at its edges, smoothed, and bears unidirectional scoring. The finder kindly suggests a role as a sharpener. Dr Kevin Leahy regards these objects as plough pebbles, which would be mounted on the leading edge of the wooden mould board to reduce its erosion during use, the markings on the protruding ‘working’ face of the pebble arising from long use until its displacement. The heavy plough was an introduction of later Iron Age to Early …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-22A69E
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint with cortex pebble possible plough pebble. One half or more of a water-rounded flint cobble with a single flat face which is rounded at its edges, smoothed, and bears unidirectional scoring. The finder kindly suggests a role as a sharpener. Dr Kevin Leahy regards these objects as plough pebbles, which would be mounted on the leading edge of the wooden mould board to reduce its erosion during use, the markings on the protruding ‘working’ face of the pebble arising from long use until its displacement. The heavy plough was an introduction of later Iron Age to …
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-A79ABE
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible muller or rubbing stone of possibe Neolithic- Bronze Age date. The object is made of black polished flint that is triangular in section, profile and plan.One edge of the stone has been deliberately used to create a flattened smooth edge.Possibly used for working leather, pottery, or stone.  Similar : Mason, E (2022) CORN-A7CCE4: A NEOLITHIC UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Web page available at: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1084749
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A77175
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone fragment  of possible Bronze Age date. The whetstone is made of a flat tabular block of light reddish brown quartzite. The artefact is trapezoidal in plan and has a  rounded triangular section. The whetstone has been worn on all edges with the dorsal side having two flat surfacesthat meet at a rounded worn ridge. Both of the dorsal surfaces are semi-concave. The ventral side is flat The object's edges are  both deliberately worn and taper slightly. The unbroken end of the whetstone has been pecked. Found in the same area as other whetsto…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-A75F56
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone fragment  of possible Bronze Age date. The whetstone is made of a flat tabular block of light reddish brown quartzite. The artefact is trapezoidal in plan and has a rounded-rectangular section. The whetstone has been worn on all edges and the dorsal and ventral sides are both flat. The object's edges are  both deliberately worn and taper slightly. The unbroken end of the whetstone has been worn smooth. Found in the same area as other whetstone fragments, as well as other Mesolithic-Bronze Age stone tools.  Similar : Tyacke, A (2012)&nbs…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-A71CF4
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone fragment  of possible Roman-modern date. The whetstone is made of light reddish brown sandstone, is sub-rectantular in plan and has a rounded-rectangular section. The whetstone has been worn on all edges and the dorsal and ventral sides are both flat. The object's edges are  both deliberately worn and taper slightly. One of the edges has two flat narrow surfaces that meet at about a 30 degree angle, indicating use a sharpening tool. The unbroken end of the whetstone has been pecked and is relatively flat.  Similar to Maslin, S (2023)&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-A6AEE6
Object type: GRINDSTONE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric grindstone  of possible Bronze Age date. The Grindstone is made of a light reddish brown quartzite pebble that is sub-rectantular in plan and sub-oval in section. This object has a flat worn distal end and has been  worn enough  create a slightly concave section on the on the right margin. There appears to be some pecking or battering at the proximal end of the stone. Similar to Partridge, W (2017) DEV-94CED5: A BRONZE AGE GRINDSTONE Web page available at: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/865036 
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-137445
Object type: AXE HAMMER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a perforated axe hammer or "mace head" made of a light redddish brown quartzite pebble. The perforated object is sub-oval in plan, with a flattened oval section. The perforation was formed by pecking with a hard, pointed stone from both sides leaving subtle raised area near the centre of the perforation. This object is different than other broken mace-heads or axe hammers on the database, as its proximal end  has been deliberately worn down at a 45 degree angle to the perforation. It is possible that this object was broken and then re-used as a pestel-like t…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: ESS-EA714B
Object type: ANVIL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This stone artefact is interpreted as being a possible anvil or polishing stone. These objects are also known as cushion stones. It is of rectangular shape with rounded faces, flattened ends and one flattened side and one curved side. The stone from which it is made is light grey in colour and very fine grained. There is a shallow chip on one face which looks as though it might have resulted from a hammer blow and there is also an area of damage on one end.  The artefact measures 83 mm long, 50 mm wide (max.) and 37 mm thick. It weighs 27 g.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EA5B9E
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very large stone axe with a semi-circular blade, which slightly flares out from both sides, tapering sides and a narrow circular butt. The axe is oval in cross-section. The blade edge is very chipped. The axe is made of a greenish-coloured stone which is very uniform in colour and texture. The surface appears to have been polished, with evidence surviving on one side close to the blade, but is now very pitted. There are two shallow longitudinal grooves on one face. The axe measures 195 mm long, 82 mm wide (across the blade) and 47 mm thick. The butt is approximately 16 mm i…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-7CEDDA
Object type: WORKED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval to Modern (19th to 20th century) worked stone fragment: the stone is heavily abraded marble and has two flat faces, one of which is engraved with lower case 'ar'. All the edges are broken. It measures 81.31mm long, 64.01mm wide, 25.99mm thick and 207g. This fragment is likely to be from a headstone or plaque dating to the 19th to 20th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-6B7EE2
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic polished stone axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a rounded narrow butt end and a wider rounded blade end and generally straight sides. It is pointed oval in section. The blade edge is sharply angled and feels sharp along part of its length.  The opposed, butt edge is rounded.   The sides are sharply angled but are not sharp.  . The axehead is made from a very dark almost black stone and has slight pitting throughout. Length: 154.3 mm Width: 83.1 mm Thickness: 41.8 mm Weight: 848 g DUR-C2E93…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: KENT-ECCC79
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete perforated quartzite pebble hammer/mace head of Mesolithic to early Bronze Age date (c. 9000-1800 BC). Description: The object is made from a smooth waterworn quartzite pebble which, when complete, would have been oval in shape. Approximately 50% remains, with a break across the centre of the perforation, which is hourglass in section, indicating that it was worked from both sides. There is some evidence of pecking on the rounded edge of the object, indicating that it has probably been used as a pebble hammer. On the external surfaces, the quartzite is orange-brown in co…
Created on: Friday 30th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2022
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Record ID: LIN-080CD8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a possible vessel or tripod leg. The leg is cylindrical, solid, and has a flat base. The leg has a narrow collar around the base. The upper end is damaged but appears to have been angled to attach to a concave metal vessel.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 29th December 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-9AC294
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic to early Bronze Age polished stone perforated object, dating to c. 2800 - 2100 BC. The object is sub-rectangular with slightly convex sides, it is pointed oval in section. Positioned slightly off-centre is a circular perforation which has an hourglass form. The butt of the object is slightly rounded towards the butt and shows some wear through use. The opposing edge slopes more sharply into the cutting edge, this is mostly worn through use. The surface on all sides is smooth and only slightly pitted. The stone is dark grey in colour.  Length: 123.2 mm Width: 77.2 …
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-89BBA4
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, undecorated, stone spindle whorl probably dating to the medieval period (c. AD 410-1500). The spindle whorl is circular in plan. The object has a central circular perforation which has been drilled from each side. The object is made of a light rough stone possibly a micaceous sandstone. The object has been split in two, diagonally along one circular face, creating a triangular cross-section when viewed from one edge. As a result of the split one circular face of the spindle whorl is much lighter in colour that the other as it has exposed the inner material, su…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-CA16D6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey metamorphic polished stone axe fragment. A chip identified by the finder as from a stone axe of darker metamorphic rock than the familiar Group VI axe-heads, from imported elsewhere in western Britain. Three long thin parallel flakes have been struck from the dorsal side by probably bipolar working [i.e. from both ends] leaving a concave ventral surface. This pattern of working would usually commend a later Mesolithic date, though the use of part of an axe may extend that date range into the early Neolithic. Another small fragment of similar stone has been reported from the v…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-614050
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished Neolithic axehead made from a grey-brown quartzite with a grey band across it. Only a fragment of the surface from one face remains, with a curved edge on one end. The original dimensions of the object are impossible to determine.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
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Record ID: NLM-118667
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lava quern fragment. A wedge-shaped fragment from a quern stone, rounded by abrasion. One flat face is smoother than the other – though not by much – marking the working side of the stone. The rounded form at the broader end of the fragment may suggest a biconical or hourglass feed hole set centrally to the pair of stones whence this fragment derives. Lava from Eifel in Western Germany was exploited to make quern stones from the Roman period, and these were also the subject of trade between Carolingian Europe and England in the early 9th century. Suggested date: Roman, 43-4…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-116270
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three secondary hard hammer struck flakes of unpatinated glossy dark grey/brown flint of good quality. Broad, sub-circular flake, terminating in a slight hinge at the distal end, both lateral edges are finely and irregularly damaged. 37 x 38 x 11.5 mm. 16 g. Possible end scraper, steeply retouched at the distal end on an elongated blade-like flake, struck from a single platform core. Lateral edges are slightly damaged. Bulb missing, broken transversely. 45.5 x 25 x 8.5 mm. 10 g. Struck flake, Hinged termination to one side, one edge appears to be finely retouched/damaged. 36 x 28 …
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FDCE25
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three pieces of black flint, unpatinated. Tertiary end scraper of conventional form, hard hammer struck with steep retouch to the distal end, now slightly damaged, the retouch is less invasive to the lateral edges. 54 x 37.5 x 10 mm. 23 g. Side scraper on a semi-hard hammer struck secondary flake, one side of the dorsal face has off-white cortex extant with a section of fossilised Belemnite shell. The bulb is crushed, and one side of the distal end (opposing the cortex) is steeply retouched to form the main scraping edge. 57 x 35 x 10 mm. 22 g. Tertiary hard hammer struck flake wi…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-835E4B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone annular object, probably a domed spindle whorl of Walton Rogers type A1 dating c 600-1200.  The object is domed and almost bi-conical with one flat side and one domed. A circular aperture has been drilled through the centre measuring 5.07mm on the domed side and widening to 6.04mm on the flat side. The walls of the aperture are cylindrical and the edges of the aperture on the lower edges appear worn and rounded. The surface is buff/pale brown. Measurements: diameter: 14.55mm; thickness: 6.99mm and weight: 6.73g.  It is possible th…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-53BE3A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished late Neolithic axehead, 112.7mm in length, made from a grey flint. The axehead has a lenticular cross section which expands in width from 30.6mm at the butt to 52.7mm at the front. The cutting edge is lost to heavy battering damage which looks to be the result of use and also has removal scars consistent with attempts at re-sharpening.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-008C94
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic (c.4000-2000 BC) polished axehead. The fragment comprises most of the cutting edge, which is curved and a portion of one side which has a slightly flattened and facetted edge. There appears to be no evidence of use-related wear or damage. The axehead is made from a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff or greenstone, with fine orange-brown streaks / banding. The lithological source is probably from the vicinity of Langdale, Cumbria. This material is exotic for the location of the find (south Oxfordshire), suggesting that the axehead would have…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: DUR-C2E938
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete  stone axehead, probably dolerite, of the polished type, dating from the Neolithic period (c.4000 - 2200 BC). This is a neolithic polished stone axehead made by grinding and polishing the stone to shape. Its dimensions are 115.65 mm long x 61.8 mm wide (or high in its use position) x 39.1mm thick and it weighs 422.8g. The butt is oval in section, 35.2 mm high and 27mm thick, and the surface is faceted on each side of a central vertical arris.  The transition from each butt facet to its adjacent side of the axehead is sharply defined. The sides of the axehead…
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2F3DB
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Impressively banded igneous stone “slipper” mace head, the stone is fine-grained with grey/green layers between whiteish layers, the perforations were never completed; pecked and/or bored from both faces but now left as opposing “cups” to each face c. 23 mm dia. and each 11 mm deep, there was only c. 7 mm of unperforated stone  before the two would meet up. The surface has a small amount of fine, granular loss but essentially it is in good condition. Possibly locally made from a glacial erratic water worn pebble chosen for the aesthetics of the stone…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F27DB7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated, thin butted flaked axe: - of mottled dark grey and light grey flint with a slight orange patination to the surfaces, this orange is more pronounced to the sinuous coarse inclusion to the flatter of the two faces. All flake scars are soft hammer struck with feathered flake terminations, all confidently struck. The cutting edge is very slightly rounded, one side of which is recently damaged, another small loss to the mid-point to one edge above the missing cutting edge as well, and another loss to the opposing edge, just below the butt, these show the original colour of the …
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2572B
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large part-polished axe in excellent condition, of orange patinated flint with the coarse inclusions now a pale off-white colour, the very tip of the butt retains the original grey colour of the flint, one face has a couple of light iron scrapes from agricultural machinery. One lateral edge is lightly damaged recently, this interrupts the ground and minimally rounded edges of the axe, the cutting edge is almost a perfect semi-circle in plan and is ground and polished, not quite removing the flake scars from the surface, similar work to smooth off the high points to both faces has been…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2223C
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cornish greenstone axe with a degraded and weathered surface, this is usual for this type of stone, otherwise it is complete: -of petrological Group 1 or 1 a, (Group 1, Uralitized gabbro, epidiorite, or greenstone. Source in Mount’s Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall. Widely distributed and abundant. Keiller, Piggott, and Wallis, PPS, 7 (1941), 51. Group 1 a, Close to Group 1. Stone and Wallis, PPS, 17 (1951), 105). Specific for this axe: Stone Imp. Pet. N308. Late Neolithic, 3,000 to 2,350 BC. See records: NMS-F2F3DB NMS-F27DB7 NMS-F2572B NMS-C0A67B fo…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NLM-4C99D6
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gritstone perforated stone implement fragment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 6000-4000 BC Length: 92.4mm, Width: 31.1mm, Thickness: 41.4mm
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-4ABE9C
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Basalt whetstone, hole drilled though its middle, but drilled from both sides. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-1000 Length: 57.4mm, Width: 12.1mm, Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 10.74gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-49EC10
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Made from shale, very worn and irregular, smallish hole. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-1000 (source record suggests Medieval).  Diameter: 31.9mm, Thickness: 7.8mm, Weight: 5.71gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-39E394
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic asymmetrical facetted polished axehead dating c. 4000 -2200 BC The axehead is asymmetrical and pentagonal in plan with a broadly lenticular cross section with facetted sides. There is a worn break across the butt end and some large chips on one face. The object expands in width from 30.36mm at the damaged butt end to 53.73mm at the cutting edge. One long edge is gently convex while the opposing edge is angled and rises at a 30º angle from the butt end before straightening to run parallel to the straighter opposing edge. Each long edge i…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-36CF65
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Limestone axe, polished cutting edge, part of surface hacked and left crude. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC length (from drawing]: 153mm
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-CDD795
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group 6 Langdale stone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC. Length (from drawing): 90mm
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-7C08C8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished late Neolithic axehead, 122.9mm in length, made from a grey flint. The sides have flat facets along their edges and the axehead has a lenticular cross section which expands in width from 36mm at the butt to 51.1mm towards the blade. The cutting edge is slightly asymmetrical with one corner being more rounded than the other. The axehead tapers to the rounded butt end which is worked around an inclusion on one side. There is damage to the blade and butt end as well as a large removal scar covering the rear half of one side.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
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Record ID: SUR-D373BB
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished hardstone axehead of Neolithic date. The axehead is 123.6mm in length and 61.3mm wide, with a lenticular side profile and an oval cross section 37mm thick. The butt is rounded and the sides flare slightly towards the blade end before narrowing into the curved cutting edge. One face demonstrates damage from weathering, whilst the other side remains smooth with visible striations from polishing. This suggests that the axehead has spent considerable time partially buried in riverbed sediment with only one face exposed to the moving water. The axehead is made from…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C0A67B
Object type: DISCOIDAL KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete discoidal knife, of Clarke. J.G.D. (1932a) Form II with a D-shaped plan, both faces are entirely covered with soft hammer invasive flake scars, overlapping the centre and effectively thinning the piece, all flakes are confidently struck with the flake scars with feather terminations or very slight hinges, to be expected on a thin biface with very flat faces, one scar has failed to remove a previous, slightly larger hinge and remains as a high point to the less convex butt edge. The more convex edge has been carefully ground and polished to form the main function…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-C49A3D
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone mace head or pebble hammer of Neolithic or earlier date. The object is made from an oval pebble, 101.5mm in length, 84.4mm wide and 35.8mm thick with an oval cross-section on both the long and short axis. The perforation hole is circular and has an hourglass cross section, tapering on both sides from 38mm diameter at the surface to 20mm at a ridge around the mid point of the channel. The hole was bored from both sides of the stone (to meet in the middle) probably using a rotating drill and sand abrasive. Both ends of the macehead have patches of battering damage suggesting tha…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-700542
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ground and polished stone axehead dating to 4000-2350 BC. Made from a fairly coarse grained metamorphic rock (probably a schist) with visible mica pieces and greyish green in colour. The axehead is small and sub-triangular in shape. It has been ground and polished to a smooth finish. Chipping and crush damage along the cutting edge suggest the object was heavily used prior to loss or discard. The cross section of the axehead is pointed oval. Along one edge are a series of incised transverse and angled grooves of varying length. Date: Neolithic …
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4EA515
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than half of a ground and polished Neolithic axe: - of white and pale grey patinated flint with numerous rusty iron scrapes to the surface from contact with agricultural machinery, there is also a patch or orange, red/brown to one face, truncated by the break, this may have been a sub-cortical surface from the flint “blank” this axe was made from. Only the cutting edge has been recovered, broken transversely in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture probably whilst in use. The break is at roughly 90 degrees to the surface of the axe with one side hinging round towards a p…
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th June 2022
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Record ID: NARC-F61987
Object type: PLOUGH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone Plough Pebble of Early-Medieval to Medieval date (AD 900-1100). The object is ovate with one flattened end, and one rounded end. This is a 'plough pebble' which was used by being hammered into the sole plate of a wooden plough. The is probably quartzite and is light brown in colour. Height: 84.95mm, Width: 106.58mm, Thickness: 83.88mm, Weight: 1,103.00g A similar example can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: NLM-C8C5B9, NARC-40442C and FAKL-2AF0D1 Dr. Kevin Leahy notes in FAKL-2AF0D: Plough pebbles are an interesting pheno…
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: WAW-CC13F2
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ground and polished axehead dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000-2100 BC). The implement is sub-oval in form, tapering to the cutting edge at one end and terminating in a worn break at the oppsing end. The object has been extensively chipped and ground to form a smoth surface. The blade edge has a curved forward and is now chipped. The butt of the axehead is now missing. The stone is a dark grey in colour with some pits and scratches. Comparable examples recorded on the PAS databasse include GLO-EFC8A8, DUR-7380F3 and LVPL-2C1556. The overall dimensions are…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 28th May 2022
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Record ID: BUC-9279D9
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of polished Neolithic, stone axehead, dating 4000-2200 BC. The object comprises the cutting end of the axehead and a part of the main body with a substantial old break. The stone is dark and not flint or chert, greenish in colour it is possibly a greenstone or basalt. Chipping and crush damage along the cutting edge suggest the object was heavily used prior to breaking and loss or discard. The cross section of the axehead main body is oval. Length: 78.47 mm Width: 57.51 mm Thickness: 13.7 mm Diameter: 40 mm
Created on: Monday 9th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-17FC14
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Butt end of a part-polished Neolithic axe, less than half remains, broken transversely in antiquity, most likely while in use. The axe is of light patinated pale grey flint, both lateral edges are rounded off by grinding. It appears that there has been an attempt to reshape the break, several hard hammer strikes have removed short, hinged flakes along the broken (face) edge with an angle amenable to reduction but the other edge of the break has been left as is, one (side) edge has had two gauging flakes struck, both ending in hinges, it seems the axe was discarded at this this point. …
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
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Record ID: NARC-DA7135
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Whetstone of Bronze Age to Modern date (1000 BC- AD 1800). The object is composed of a fine-grained micaceous grey stone.  The object is sub-rectangular in plan and slightly convex in section/ The left- and right-hand edges have slight bevelling, there is a transverse break to one end, the opposing end is rounded. There are shallow notches/grooves in one of the flat surfaces, which are indicative of its use as a whetstone. Length: 48.19mm, Width: 30.87mm, Thickness: 11.74mm, Weight: 34.5g Jones and Taylor (2010) illustrate similar sandstone and …
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: SF-BFE750
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic greenstone axehead dating to circa 4000-2350 BC. It is pointed oval in section. It flares outwards from the butt end to the crescentic cutting edge. The butt has some iron staining on it. The surface is singificantly weathered and rolled, with the original polished surface now having eroded. It is formed of greenstone, an igneous rock which found throughout the south west of England. has been subjected to low grade metamorphism, which is found throughout the south west of England. There are clusters around Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Land's End peninsula. Gi…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-06B8DA
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken part-polished axe, of thin butted form and narrow form: - of pale patinated mottled grey flint with spotty iron stains to both faces, the butt was broken in antiquity and the ground and polished cutting edge is recently damaged. The cross section is rhombic, with the median ridge offset to one side on both faces, both lateral edges are left as knapped and are not abraded to aid with hafting. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
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