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| Image | Object Type | Find number | Broadperiod | County | Actions |
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Handaxe | LEIC-69B497 |
Palaeolithic | Leicestershire |
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| Lower Paleolithic bi-facial quartzite hand axe, 103mm long, 93mm wide and 42mm thick. The object is in good condition with an ornage patina and weighs 421 grams. The object consists of a quartzite pebble which has had fairly large removals taken off each side to produce an axe point. | |||||
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Lithic implement | YORYM-4503F2 |
Neolithic | North Yorkshire |
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| A fine grained siliceous mudstone flake, knapped to resemble a lithic implement. The flake is only a fragment and is probably a Neolithic flake. The mudstone has a high silica contain allowing it to be knapped like flint. Previous flakes have been removed from the surface and some damage has oc... | |||||
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Whetstone | NLM-3D12C7 |
Early medieval | East Riding Of Yorkshire |
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| A stone hone of unknown date. The sub-rectangular hone is slightly waisted in the centre and is probably incomplete. It is made from a brown hard mud or siltstone with fine grains and is smooth to touch. The sides of the hone have silvery inclusions and black markings that are not present on the ... | |||||
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Quern | ESS-C58D72 |
Roman | Essex |
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| Fragment of Roman Andernach quern stone. | |||||
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Quern | ESS-C54CF6 |
Roman | Essex |
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| Three fragments of Roman Quern stone. Two of the fragments have grooves on the upper surface. | |||||
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Whetstone | SWYOR-5ABA34 |
Early medieval | North Yorkshire |
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| A whetstone or hone which is 117.3mm long, 52.7mm wide and 34.6mm thick. The stone is sub-rectangular in plan with rounded corners. It appears to be a water worn pebble which has not been deliberately shaped. One face has been used as a whetstone though. This face is very smooth and worn, but the... | |||||
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Whetstone | SWYOR-5756A4 |
Medieval | North Yorkshire |
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| A stone whetstone which is 56.6mm long, 14.5mm wide and 7.8mm thick. The stone is rectangular in section and is wider at one end. The narrower end may be an old break. There is a circular perforation in the wider end which appreas to have been drilled from one side. The stone is a very fine-grain... | |||||
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Spindle whorl | YORYM-454510 |
Unknown | North Yorkshire |
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| Half of a stone circular and flat spindle whorl, of uncertain date. The spindle whorl has a central perforation. | |||||
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Axehead | GLO-71A7F4 |
Neolithic | Avon |
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| A Neolithic handaxe, length 257mm, width 74mm, thickness 56mm. The implement has been extensively chipped and ground into a long elongated sub-oval shape in plan and oval in cross section. The blade edge is rounded and is the only section to have been polished. The edges are slightly convex, i... | |||||
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Axehead | BH-A166D8 |
Neolithic | Bedfordshire |
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| A Neolithic carved stone axehead, probably of Cornish Greenstone. For a parallel on the PAS database, see IOW-8719D4. The implement is of oval section and expands in width gradually towards the cutting edge which is fairly blunt, possibly indicating that the tool was never finished. The surfac... | |||||
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Scraper (tool) | SOM-F79764 |
Neolithic | Somerset |
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| A probable chert end scraper of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. The scraper has been made from a tertiary flake (no cortex remaining) of slightly mottled dark brownish-grey chert. It is fresh and complete. The pronouced bulb and bulbar scar on the ventral surface suggest the use of a hard ham... | |||||
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Lithic implement | SOM-F34156 |
Neolithic | Somerset |
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| A flaked chert implement, probably a chisel, of Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date. The surviving part of the incomplete greensand chert implement measures 41.5mm by 20.1mm by 12.3mm and weighs 8.9g. It tapers to a rounded point and probably represents the butt end. It has a lenticular cross-sect... | |||||
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Unidentified object | SUSS-E332D7 |
Neolithic | West Sussex |
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| Fragment of an unidentified object. The fragment appears to be made of a dense, black stone, possibly basalt. It appears to be a rim fragment from a vessel or ring of stone. It is widest at the rim where it is 33.7mm wide, it is 44.9mm long and 6.2mm thick and weighs 30.7 grams. The rim is beve... | |||||
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Quern | NMS-C96972 |
Medieval | Norfolk |
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| Medieval lava quern stone probably re-used as a weight for securing a roof, for a loom or for closing a door. Upper stone with slots for rynd on underside. The diameter, only 195mm, shows that the edges have been ground down, as does their smoothed, rounded section. Thickness 65mm. Eye or hole di... | |||||
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Intaglio | Murphy-4ED885 |
Post medieval | Cheshire |
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| A red intaglio inside a silver/tin sheet. It has come from either a finger ring or a fob seal. It is Post-Medieval in date. It is oval in plan and shows a person kneeling to the left with something in front of him. The sheet case has a circular hole on the reverse. No. 15 | |||||
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Axe | LANCUM-39DF36 |
Neolithic | Cumbria |
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| A complete and undamaged knapped, ground and polished axe head of later Neolithic date (2500-2100 BC). The axe was knapped from a light grey/white black volcanic tuff. This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash that is found in Britain and Ireland in a band that runs down the Irish Sea... | |||||
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Muller | CORN-A46C92 |
Neolithic | Cornwall |
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| Greenstone (dolerite or epidiorite) muller or hammer, ovoid in plan and in profile, slightly expanded at one end, and likely made from a local beach cobble. Both faces has been ground down to a flatter, smoother surface, but neither looks well used. The wear on it may instead be the beginnings of... | |||||
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Pounder | CORN-A466F6 |
Neolithic | Cornwall |
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| Greenstone (dolerite or epidiorite) pounder or hammer, bell-shaped in plan and profile, likely made from a local beach cobble. The hammer stone has impact pecking on the surface of its wider rounded end, as well as its narrower end, suggesting that both ends were used as striking surfaces and tha... | |||||
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Axe | CORN-A45D97 |
Neolithic | Cornwall |
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| Greenstone (dolerite or epidiorite) axe rough out, sub-ovate in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axe has a vein of quartz running through the middle of it and has been pecked and shaped into this basic stone axe shape, but not yet ground and polished and so is unfinished. Th... | |||||
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Mortar (vessel) | CORN-A44F72 |
Roman | Cornwall |
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| Fragment of greisen Cornish mortar, with the remains of an external chamfer, a grooved spout and part of the body and base. The spout has eroded at its end and is now about 34 mm long. The bowl was originally about 260 mm in diameter and about 70 mm deep. The greisen probably derives from the ... | |||||
| Quern | SF-D72555 |
Medieval | Suffolk |
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| A large fragment of a medieval lava quern stone, it is the flat lower stone with worn radial grooving and it is damaged and possibly re-used. It is 48mm in thickness. | |||||
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Weight | LANCUM-806C75 |
Roman | Gloucestershire |
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| Net sinker or weight made from very finely grained sand stone. | |||||
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Muller | CORN-71FB50 |
Bronze age | Cornwall |
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| Fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone. The muller is oval in plan, with two rounded ends, and plano-convex in section. The muller is flat and smooth on the face that was used for rubbing, and convex on the opposite face, where it was held and pushed across a base for grinding. The mu... | |||||
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Axe | ESS-43D392 |
Neolithic | Essex |
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| Neolithic (4000-2500BC) stone axe, dating circa 4000-2500 BC. The axe was knapped from what appears to be Cornish greenstone, and the surface was polished to give a smooth apperance. The surface is now rough and pitted due to weathering. The axe is sub-triangular in plan and lenticular in cross s... | |||||
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Sculpture | BERK-01F272 |
Unknown | Oxfordshire |
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| Limestone bivalve fossil with carved face on one side. The face has pronounced lips & nose although the lower part of the nose is broken. The eyes are oval and recesed. There is further decoration in the form of two crescents with transverse grooves to either side of the head - these are perha... | |||||
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Finger ring | SUSS-DA5806 |
Roman | East Sussex |
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| An Early Medieval finger ring, made of an orange-red translucent stone, possibly carnelian. The ring is circular with a thickened shoulders that merge into the flat, pointed oval, bezel. It is 13.6mm in internal diameter and 21.8mm in external diameter; It is 3.3mm wide by 4.6mm thick at the poin... | |||||
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Architectural fragment | LVPL-6C7F66 |
Post medieval | Cheshire |
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| Post-Medieval decorative architectural fragment. It is most likley to be a finial off the top of a pediment, gable or similar architectural feature. It is decorated with ruffles and swirls in a symmetrical pattern on the front face and is flat on the back. It dates to late 17th to 18th centuries.... | |||||
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Architectural fragment | LVPL-6C6581 |
Medieval | Cheshire |
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| Male head from red sandstone. It appears to be a man with his eyes closed. He is wearing some kind of cap. Behind the head, the fragment is flat, where it would have been fixed to a wall. It is c.170mm in height and c.100mm wide. It would have been the stop or finial at the end of a hood mould... | |||||
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Macehead | SUR-425AB0 |
Mesolithic | Surrey |
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| A perforated stone macehead made from an oval river pebble of fine-grained buff stone with closely-spaced lighter streaks. The diameter of the hole varies from 11.57-12.21mm. There is no sign of further working to form an implement. | |||||
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Whetstone | YORYM-ACA3C7 |
Early medieval | East Riding Of Yorkshire |
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| A large fragment of whetstone, which is probably early-medieval in date. Numberous whetstones made in this material have been found in the East Ridings of Yorkshire in Viking contexts. The stone from which the whetstone has been carved is a fine-grained Mica Schist, sourced in Scandinavia. The st... | |||||
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