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Record ID: CORN-BF2348
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A relatively worn, pitted adze head, of probable late Neolithic - early Bronze Age date, made from amphibolite schist. It is a light blue-green colour, and flares at its cutting edge.
Interesting, this object shows signs of having been broken, and the blade subsequently re-worked. It appears to have originally been an adze, but its secondary use was as an axehead.
Greenstones axe or adze heads were commonplace during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Cornwall. Due to depositional context of this find, and due to the relative proximity upstream of a Bronze Age-Iron Age…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-685496
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age discoidal scraper, 41.4mm in length, struck from a grey-brown coloured flint. The distal edge has short abrupt scaled retouch around half of the circumference. The striking platform and bulbar scar are well defined.
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3E541F
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cylindrical bladelet core of early mesolithic date struck from a pale grey flint. The core has two striking platforms, one at either end, with removal scars around half of the circumference. A large fossil sponge cavity has prevented removals on the other side.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3E3483
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic discoidal scraper struck from a tertiary flake of grey flint, 47.3mm in length. The distal edge terminates in a hinge fracture and the sides and proximal end have been worked into scraping edges with short, semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch. There is a notch at the proximal end next to the striking platform, which most likely derives from post depositional damage.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3E05C1
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Neolithic scraper struck from a tertiary flake of grey flint. The striking platform and bulbar scar are both pronounced and there is a deep concavity in the dorsal surface, all suggesting hard hammered removal. The distal end has a working edge defined by short, abrupt and semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3DE744
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blade core of later mesolithic date with a single striking platform, struck from a thick flake of light brown flint. The core is triangular in shape with a plano convex cross section and parallel removal scars around the convex side. A patch of buff coloured cortex remains on the lower portion.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3DC263
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint piercer made from a triangular fragment of dark grey flint, 57.1mm in length and of Bronze Age date. The tool has a long narrow projection which retains light brown cortex along one side; the other has been worked using abrupt scaled retouch to create a piercer. The tip appears to have broken.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D9D27
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A jagged and irregularly shaped tertiary flake of dark grey flint. One end has a triangular point which has been finely worked with long, semi abrupt and abrupt scaled retouch to create a functional piercer tool.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D826E
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large tertiary flake of mottled brown flint, 69mm in length and pointed oval in shape. One long edge has an area of short abrupt retouch, possibly to back the flake or for casual use as a side scraper. Probably of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D61B5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age discoidal scraper struck from a tertiary flake of mottled light grey flint. The edges have short abrupt retouch, now obscured by extensive, most likely post depositional, damage
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D4986
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Bronze Age scraper struck from a nodule fragment of dark brown flint. The distal end is rounded with finely executed long, semi abrupt sub parallel retouch defining a working edge. The dorsal surface retains around 75% cortex and there is little in the way of a striking platform or other preparation suggesting that this is most likely a casually re-used primary waste flake from nodule reduction.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D2E9C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic end scraper struck from a secondary flake of light brown flint. The distal end is rounded with finely executed short abrupt parallel retouch defining a working edge. One side of the flake retains a large area of buff coloured cortex along its full length which effectively provides a back to the tool.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D0559
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic scraper struck from a sub triangular tertiary flake of light brown flint. The dorsal surface has secondary working in the form of long abrupt and semi abrupt retouch all around the edge.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3CE55D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper of later Bronze Age date struck from a large nodule fragment of dark grey flint, which retains a buff coloured cortex across more than 60% of its dorsal surface. There is no striking platform or evidence of preparation, suggesting a casually re-used fragment of a nodule which may have been naturally broken. The distal end has long, semi abrupt retouch to define a working edge.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-735FC5
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete red-hued flint bladelet, likely dating to the late Mesolithic period, with an almost grainy-like appearance.
It is rectangular-shaped, although it is leaning to a tilt. It is a double-edged blade, whereby both long sides are sharpened, while the uppermost short side seems to be the tip of the blade. While the blade is incomplete, as Mesolithic blades are often rather small, it is likely that there is not much missing, and abrasion caused by its time spent in the sea may account for any loss of surface.
Found while beach-combing, after a heavy summer storm had taken place e…
Created on: Saturday 23rd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 13th January 2024
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Record ID: GLO-5ABB34
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement possible creating a knife on a tertiary flake. There are multiple worn flaking scares on the on the dorsal what has a slight concave surface and multiple flaking scars on the ventral, this time with a convex surface. There is scaled direct retouch down one side creating a slightly convex edge. This item is covered in a creamy patina Neolithic to Bronze Age date.
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd December 2023
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Record ID: GLO-5A5DF8
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint debitage, this is a tertiary flake. There are multiple flaking scares on the on the dorsal and a negative bulb of percussion on the ventral. Light brown flint. Mesolithic to Bronze Age date.
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd December 2023
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Record ID: SOM-301047
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) Sutton type dating to the Early Bronze Age 2500 - 1500 BC.
The barbs are incomplete, and the tip of the arrowhead is missing, otherwise the arrowhead is in good condition.
The flint is glossy, dark brown, both faces are completely covered with invasive pressure flaking scars that overlap in the middle of each face, a larger flake scar on one side may indicate trace of original flake blank which the arrowhead was knapped from.
Barbed and Tanged arrowheads are associated with the Bronze Age Beaker Period, …
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2D0022
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost a complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) Green low type, though the barbs are around the same length as the tang (Green lows have longer barbs than the tang) the general form of the notches and the slightly drooping barbs fit within that group, there is a tiny amount of recent damage; one corner of the (rectangular) tang is missing as is the very tip if the point, otherwise it is in pristine condition, the flint is glossy, dark brown/grey with a very slight misty patination to parts of the surface, both faces are completely covered with invasive pressure flak…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C8B8B
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertairy ?soft hammer struck flake with the bulb of percussion removed and neatly trimmed to a triangular shape by direct, steep percussion predominantly to the dorsal face, of slightly mottled dark grey flint with no patination. This is very likely to be an unfinished arrowhead, the profile is very straight for a struck flake, and the thickness is within the perfect range (4.6 mm), the trimming has evened out the curve already, the flake seems to have been worked into a blank then misplaced before the piece was extensively pressure flaked to its final shape, it is very likely this was…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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