Record ID: NMS-4F5A71
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Globular bead of hard off-white stone with a drilled perforation. Weight 0.57g. Length 7mm. Width 8mm. Perforation diameter 2.5 - 3mm. Date uncertain, but not recent.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
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Record ID: NMS-394458
Object type: MORTAR (VESSEL)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete base of a medieval fossiliterous limestone mortar, less than 50% extant, with a low stump of the wall only. The moulded groove around the base of the wall is as Dunning, G.C. in Clarke and Carter 1977, fig. 150 no. 34. Weight 2.310kg. Diameter 210mm. Thickness 57 - 62mm. Probably 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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Record ID: WMID-9053B7
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: STAFFORDSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete possible hand axe of possible Lower Palaeolithic dating (c. 480,000 BC -c. 130,000 BC). The hand axe is sub rectangular in plan. and sub oval in plan. Both front and back exhibit a central ridge, with possible diagonal ridges radiating out towards the edge. The hand axe has been severely weathered, with multiple little 'pock' marks present over the surface. This weathering makes it hard to determine whether it has been deliberately worked or whether it is natural. It has been made from a quartzite or similar stone. It measures 96.33 mm in length, 79.62 mm wide and 30.40 mm t…
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2013
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Record ID: STAFFS-EA6B76
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: STAFFORDSHIRE
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-C1AA06
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: CORNWALL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone ball or hammerstone, sub-circular in plan, ovate in profile and rhomboidal in section. The upper and lower or base surfaces have both been ground and the upper face has also been pecked, suggesting use as a hammerstone and possibly a pestle. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all fresh and unweathered, appropriate for selection from a beach during the Neolithic. The beach selection would ensure hard enduring pieces. It is quite possible that the wear on these objects …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-C0EC45
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: CORNWALL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stone adze, tear-drop shaped in plan and section and triangular in profile, with angled sides that taper towards the butt end and widen towards the blade end. About half of the original tool survives, the sightly flanged blade end, while the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex suggesting that the tool was used as an adze for carving and smoothing t…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SUR-6D2DD6
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Neolithic ground stone axe made from a fine-grained greenish-grey stone, possibly of Cornish origin. The blade is missing and the axe appears to show signs of its having been used as a hammer. There is also recent damage on the butt. On one side, next to the missing blade, is a shallow rounded triangular facet.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-557408
Object type: CHOPPER
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: WARWICKSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower Paleolithic quartzite pebble chopper-core, 78mm long, 46mm wide and 39mm thick. The stone weighs 171grams and has been worked from three angles to remove at least 9 flakes to form a triangular point which appears to have some wear. We refer to these as chopper-cores as we can't be certain whether the whole object is being used or the flakes are being used as cutting tools. The object is part of a growing number of Quartzite tools which are being found in this area. Leicestershire museums holds the important Waite Collection of pebble tools which was found along, the Leicestershi…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2013
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Record ID: STAFFS-290565
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: STAFFORDSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone bead, barrel shaped with concave ends.
Created on: Monday 8th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B38633
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete shist or ragstone whetstone. The object is rectangular in cross-section and flares slightly towards the terminal. The terminal is curved - both in plan and cross-section - somewhat like a blade. The other end is broken.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Louth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-76FD15
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone: Volcanic Tufa from Langdale, Cumbria Polished Axe. Greenstone Group 6 axe, probably originally of lentoid section but now with one flat edge; as this surface is smoothed and polished it represents repair or modification during the working like of the object. So, too, does a group of several chips on one side, mostly damage incurred by impact on or close to the cutting edge. The axe head was probably significantly larger and has been reduced in size through a long or busy working life. The cutting edge remains remarkably sharp. The butt end of the axe is heavily chipped and rew…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-F2BF35
Object type: BOWL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: CORNWALL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stone bowl, rectangular in plan, C-shaped in profile, with a flat base, and semi-circular in section, with a rounded rim. The curvature of the rim suggests a diameter of about 240 mm and the depth of the bowl from rim to base is about 70 mm. The bowl has been derived from the greisen stone and consists of quartz and yellowish gibertite type of muscovite. The greisen probably derives from the nearby outcrop which flanks the granite at Tregonning Hill in Breage (Roger Taylor pers comm). Greisen is an altered granite where the felspar has disappeared and been replaced by whi…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: CORN-E1A492
Object type: ADZE HAMMER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: CORNWALL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stone shafthole adze or cushion macehead (hammer), ovate in plan, tapering slightly towards each end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. One edge is angled more towards the upper, darker face, which suggests that this edge could have been used as an adze for woodworking. The opposite face is lighter having been stained with lichen from its findspot since deposition. The shafthole implement was probably originally derived from a beach cobble with little resha…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-DCF786
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: CORNWALL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axehead butt end, triangular in plan and profile and ovate in section, tapering to a rounded point at one end and broken in the middle so that it is missing the blade end of the axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape from a cobble, rather than weathered, and there are traces of pecking, but no deliberate polishing. The colour of the axe is a green-grey with dark green areas on both faces where the axe has been polished, perhaps through use from the haft or wooden handle where it was held, but also from wear since it has been in the ground. The rock type has …
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: NLM-B321A4
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey igneous stone with black inclusions, possibly from Scotland Axe head. Polished stone axe head of sub-rectangular form and section with oval ends and straight flat sides. The cutting edge is angled by wear and is chipped on one side, the latter is recent damage. The narrower butt end is chipped on the same side, but this damage was inflicted less recently. A further elongated chip on the other side bears rusty staining, and may be damage incurred in antiquity. To this reporter the dark stone appears distinct from the more commonly occurring Lake District tufa used to make gro…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: NMS-7C5F48
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable Early Medieval to Medieval pendant whetstone. The stone is rectangular in both plan and cross-section. At one end it is perforated by a circular hole to secure it via a thong or suspension ring to a strap or belt. The thickness is greater at the perforated end where it tapers in a shallow curve to the broken terminal end. The greater thickness at one end probably derives from the fact that it was held by this end when in use. The material is dark grey in colour and is probably a form of Blue Phyllite, the surface of which is smooth and fine, but the sides in…
Created on: Friday 22nd February 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
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Record ID: YORYM-7556E6
Object type: MARBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: NORTH YORKSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete spherical object probably made from probably fired clay, of modern date. The exact function of this object is unknown but it is likely to have serves as a marble or similar. The object is 18.3mm in diameter and weighs 7.4g.
Created on: Friday 22nd February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2013
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Record ID: NCL-5E71F8
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A groundstone axe of the Neolithic period, c . 3500-2100 BC. The axe has been ground from a fine mudstone of grey-green colour that is possibly from the Langdale geology of the Lake District. The axe is incomplete, leaving approximately half of the axe from the centre of the body to the ground edge. In plan view, the axe is rectangular, though irregular; in section at the break the axe is oval; in profile the axe is triangular with convex sides. The axe has been ground very smooth, but there are a number of shallow scratches on both faces, probably from modern agriculture. If the axe…
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2013
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Record ID: NCL-502AE0
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A white quartz gaming piece, probably of Roman date, c. 43-410. The stone counter is discoidal, with rounded outer edges and smooth faces that are slightly convex. There are no further distinguishing features, but the stone was probably ground into its current shape.
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2013
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Record ID: NLM-4E8457
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well-compacted Sandstone with sparse shelly inclusions and moderately abundant rounded black stone inclusions of up to 5mm in length. Rotary Quern. Probably the top stone from a quern. The stone is roughly fashioned to plano-convex form with a central hour-glass shaped feed hole drilled from both sides, with a diameter of 78mm at the lower face. The upper, convex, surface includes three adjacent sub-triangular indentations of depths circa 12mm, 13mm and 30mm, along with a further shallower slot on the other side of the feed hole. These may relate to the provision of a handle for rotary…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2013
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