Record ID: SUR-434241
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded rim sherd of Neolithic grooved ware of Clacton Style, probably from a flat-based jar or bowl. The fabric is dark brown in colour with small angular flint and iron inclusions. The exterior is decorated with triangular panels filled with pressed dots and an incised line around the rim. The interior surface has three circumferential ridges. The original rim diameter was possibly around 150mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th 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-1962E3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tiny leaf-shaped arrowhead, of Green, H. S. (1980) type 4 A, of slightly lighter patinated dark grey flint, the very tip of the base of this point is broken transversely. The dorsal face is very finely and invasively pressure flaked so some of the flake scars overlap at the centre of this face, the ventral face is hardly worked at all, just a few pressure fakes to form the point, this is probably due to the natural curvature of a struck flake; only flakes need to be removed from the curved parts as an arrowhead must be straight in profile to fly in a straight path, the …
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: SF-8DA279
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic finely worked polished stone axehead. It is an elongated sub-triangular shape and oval in cross-section, with straight slightly outwards curving sides, a narrow, rounded butt and a blade end that curves outwards only very slightly. It is composed of a coarse-grained basic intrusive rock that has probably undergone metamorphism, speckled white and blue-grey in colour. There is a patch of orange-brown straining on one face. It survives in good condition with only a small amount of damage to the butt end. Dr Emily Banfield (pers. com.) kindly comments …
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-97CD1D
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, flint, leaf arrowhead of early Neolithic date. Green (1980) Type 3Bn. c.4000BC-3300BC. The object is sub-triangular, the dorsal face is slightly convex with covering parallel low angle retouch and short sub-parallel low angle retouch around all the edges. The ventral surface is slightly convex near the point then becomes slightly concave towards the proximal end due to a negative scar and percussion ripples. Reference: Green, H.S., 1980. The flint arrowheads of the British Isles: a detailed study of material from England and Wales with comparanda from Scotland and …
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EFC184
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arrowhead rough-out, a tertiary semi-soft hammer struck flake has been modified by invasive pressure flaking to form the general outline of a leaf shaped arrowhead, one side (the ventral face has been flaked to a much greater degree than the dorsal with removals from all edges towards the centre, the middle “blank” area is the original surface of the struck flake that the flakes haven’t been able to reach. The dorsal face has the point and base and one side invasively pressure flaked, mostly following the high points and the thicker areas of the flake as is usual duri…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E66429
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Asymmetrical laurel leaf point or knife, made from a thick, elongated primary of secondary flake of off-white patinated flint with patches of rusty iron oxide stains to both faces. The ventral face is largely unaltered from its fairly flat bulbar surface, a few flake scars around the periphery are evident, one has been struck quite deeply to one side of the “point”. The dorsal face has the most flake scars; struck towards the centreline with the straighter of the two lateral edges being the more invasive and lower angled, this probably is the main cutting edge, the more cur…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E501A8
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Laurel leaf point made from a semi-bifacially knapped, hard hammer struck flake as a blank, of pale to mid-grey banded flint with a dark “wash” patination, collecting in the recesses. The dorsal face is worked by direct percussion to form a leaf point, the flakes have run a little short to overlap down the middle, leaving the blanks original surface running down the centre, two flake scars to the side have hinged terminations, the ventral face retains part of the underside of the blanks original unmodified flat surface toward the point and to half way down the point, it is …
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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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: NMGW-E743EE
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Neolithic stone axehead roughout of Neolithic date, c.4000-2500 BC. The object is in the early stages of shaping, with scars from large removals on both faces and does not appear to be a flake but rather a rock in the process of being shaped. The bifacial object is broadly sub-oval in plan, with an irregular lozenge section. The shaping has not progressed to a point where it is possible to discern a blade or butt end, though one end is more pointed that the other, which has a flat, angled end formed by excess material ending in a hinged fracture on one face. One face of the …
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2023
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Record ID: SF-73831F
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint 'laurel leaf' knife of early Neolithic date. It is ovoid in shape with a flattened, pointed-oval cross-section, but is slightly asymmetrical in shape. The flint is a mottled mid- to light grey-brown with limited surface patination and some very limited orange staining in places. Covering, low angle retouch on both faces, which appears to have been struck with a soft hammer, removing all traces of the original blank flake.  'Laurel leaves' appear to have been used as knives, perhaps with the addition of a wooden handle, as their asymmetrical f…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blickling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-90BD3B
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint flaked and polished axe of probable late Neolithic date (c.3300 - 2200 BC) The axe is an elongated flame-shape, sub-oval in cross-section and bifacially worked. There is invasive, scaled, low angle retouch on both faces with limited polishing visible in places at the cutting edge on the wider end. Two areas of the original cortex are present on one face: near the smaller 'haft' end, and another section adjacent to a long lateral natural step or groove close to one edge. The presence of the latter cortex, and seemingly un-retouched natural s…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7E1E8B
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bifacial asymmetrical leaf shaped point, of mid grey mottled flint with slight iron stains to both faces, complete, apart from the very tip of the point appears to be damaged and a small notch to one side just below the missing tip, all other edges are a little roughly knapped, but appear to be in good condition otherwise. The blank for this piece was a wide tertiary flake, probably hard hammer struck, the bulb of percussion on the blank flake was orientated to one side, not the point as is usual, the bulb has been removed by the semi-invasive direct percussion to both faces to shape …
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
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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: 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: 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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