Record ID: DOR-C07E57
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core. A single platform bladelet core of irregular shape, but tending towards conical. Made from a piece of dark grey pebble flint with a glossy, mottled blue-white patina. There is some abraded iron-stained cortex remaining. The rest of the "conical" surface is covered in multiple converging bladelet removal scars. The flakes have been removed from a single platform. The edges of the core show signs of deliberate platform edge abrasion. Date: Mesolithic- Neolithic - c. 10000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 24.91 mm x 32.38 mm x 28.43 mm Weight: 27.98 g
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-02F0B6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint bladelet. A tertiary flake of off-white and beige patchy flint with a speckled off-white patina. A small bulb of percussion and striking platform at the distal end. The dorsal face has several parallel longitudinal flaking scars. The cross section is trapeziodal. There is some edge damage along one side and a break at the distal end. Date: Mesolithic to Neolithic Dimensions. 39.12 mm x 13.82 mm x 3.95 mm Weight: 2.20 g
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-EE4411
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible tranchet axe. A small, irregularly flaked flint axe with an apparent failed tranchet sharpening at the cutting edge. Pale grey and beige flint with a heavy chalky off-white patina and iron staining. Both long edges are extensively flaked from both faces, creating a ridged lozengiform cross section. One long edge is straight, the other is slightly wavy. It has a narrow, tapered butt. The opposite end has some edge damage and the cutting edge may have been more flared. There is a small flake removal at one edge. but the flake did not travel far enough across to create a prope…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: DOR-C3A327
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three flint waste flakes from the manufacture of small blades. All are secondary flakes of grey-brown patchy flint with off white mottles. All have a low gloss patina and retain small areas of abraded nodule cortex. 1] A small bulb of percussion and a small striking platform at the proximal end. Broken at the distal end.Several small parallel blade removals on the dorsal face. Dimensions:33 mm x 19 mm x 6 mm 2] A small bulb of percussion and a small striking platform at the proximal end. Several small parallel blade removals on the dorsal face. Dimensions:39 mm x 18 mm x 6 mm 3] …
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E83322
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small multi-platform flint core. The mid-grey flint is patinated white and there is an area of worn, off-white nodule cortex remaining on one face. There are several bladelet removal made in three directions. The platforms have been abraded. Date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 7000 to 3500 BC Weight: 18 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-DBA20D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core with two opposing platforms. Mid grey highly siliceous flint with occasional oval patches of less siliceous lighter grey flint. There is an area of abraded nodule cortex at one side.The core is angular with numerous, small, parallel flake removals from both the opposed platforms. Both platforms have beed formed by the removal of transverse flakes.The surface has a glossy patina. Date: Probably Mesolithic to Early Neolithic Dimensions: 33.5 mm x 40.5 mm x 34.5 mm Weight: 67.37 g
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
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Record ID: DOR-47FC11
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small single platform flint core. Dark grey flint which has a thick white patina and some iron staining. There a wide strip of abraded, beige cortex. bordering the platform and flaked area. There are several numerous small, wide flake removals along one side of the platform. The edge of the platform has been abraded prior to flaking. Date: Probably Mesolithic to Neolithic - c. 10000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 23.4 mm x 37.8 mm x 24.2 mm Weight: 23.75 g
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-47DD84
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small multi-platform flint core. Dark grey flint which has a thick white patina and some iron staining. There are numerous small flake removals over almost all surfaces and one area of heavily abraded cortex. Date: Probably Mesolithic to Neolithic - c. 10000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 30.6 mm x 27.5 mm x 25.8 mm Weight: 19.23 g
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
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Record ID: DOR-47BA4D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rounded flint scraper. Made on a flake from a bladelet core. The flint is dark grey and has a thick, white patina.The flake has a very small striking platform and low bulb of percussion with a large bulbar scar. The distal end has been coarsely and steeply retouched through a remnant of abraded cortex. The dorsal face has numerous small, parallel flaking scars from bladelet production on the original core from which this flake was struck. Date: Probably Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 7000 - 3000 BC Dimensions: 33.9 mm x 28.9 mm x 10.9 mm Weight: 11.24 g
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
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Record ID: DOR-31118D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade or large bladelet core. Made using a natural flake of haevily orange stained flint. It has a single platform and several parallel elongate flake removal scars on both sides. Date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 8000-3300 BC Dimensions: 51.0 mm x 27.6 mm x 14.0 mm Weight: 17.18 g
Created on: Friday 29th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
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Record ID: DOR-3101E6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade or large bladelet. A secondary flake of dark grey and mid grey patchy flint with a mid gloss surface. A small, abraded striking platform at the proximal end and a small area of thick, nodule cortex. On the ventral face is a small, low bulb of percussion and numerous, closely spaced waves. The ventral face is curved. On the dorsal face are several narrow, parallel, elongate flaking scars. The blade has a trapeziodal cross section. The distal end has been broken off. Date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 8000-3300 BC Dimensions: 55.3 mm x 16.6 mm x 7.3 mm Weight: 6.97 g
Created on: Friday 29th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
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Record ID: DOR-CD4A34
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform, slightly tapering, flint core. Light grey flint with a thick, off-white patina over most of the surface. Some iron staining. There are numerous small blade and bladelet removal scars around the body of the core. Date: Late Mesolithic to early Neolithic - c. 7000 - 3500 BC Dimensions: 31.2 mm x 36.1 mm x 29.0 mm Weight: 40.28g
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: DOR-CD33AC
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single platform, conical flint core. Dark grey flint with blue-white mottles and a thick, off-white patina over most of the surface. Some iron staining. There are numerous small blade and bladelet removal scars around the body of the core. There are some areas of recent damage. Date: Late Mesolithic to early Neolithic - c. 7000 - 3500 BC Dimensions: 35.6 mm x 30.2 mm x 30.1 mm Weight: 38.27 g
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: DOR-CB2321
Object type: PICK
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large crudely worked flint pick. The pick is roughly rectangular in shape, tapering slightly at one end. There are several longitudinal flake removals, struck from opposing ends (this has resulted in a thickened area around the middle of the pick). At the narrow end a small amount of striking platform remains and the opposing, wider end has been removed by transverse flaking. The flint has a heavy white patina.This was found on a beach and shows some signs of abrasion. Date: Probably Late Mesolithic to Neolithic - 7000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 138 mm x 58 mm x 52 mm Weight: 438 g
Created on: Monday 18th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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Record ID: DOR-38C993
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two tertiary flakes of Portland chert. Mid to dark grey opaque chert with a low-gloss patina. Both are fragments of probable bladelets. The proximal ends only with small striking platforms and diffuse bulbs of percussion with bulbar scars.The waves of percussion are visible on the ventral faces. There are parallel flake remocvals on the dorsal faces. Both are broken or snapped off at the distal end. Date: Probably Mesolithic to Early Neolithic- c. 10000 to 3500 BC Dimensions: 1] 31 mm x 14 mm x 4 mm 2] 23.5 mm x 17 mm x 3.5 mm Weight: 1] 2g 2] 2g
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Record ID: DOR-D8093C
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core tool. A flaked axehead. Mid grey and off-white patchy flint retaining the base of the cortex on one face. The flint areas have a glossy patina and there is some iron staining, particularily on the area of cortex. The axe has a lozenge-shaped profile with a slight mid rib on both faces as a result of transverse soft hammer flaking along both faces of the long edges.The butt of the axe is also flaked. The cutting edge is damaged, but there is a possible transverse flake. Date: Possible Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 6500 BC - 2900 BC The remnant transverse fl…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
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Record ID: DOR-1CAEA4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Portland chert sub-discoidal scraper. A hard hammer struck secondary flake of opaque Portland chert with an unusual deep red-brown semi-gloss patina. It has a wide striking platform at the proximal end. On the ventral face is a pronounced bulb of percussionand indistinct waves. The dorsal face has several multi-directional flaking scars. There is a projecting "beak" of off-white cortex on the left dorsal margin. Along the dorsal edge and right dorsal margin there is evidence for steep retouch, forming the flake into a scraper. THe retouch has created a somewhat irregular edge which…
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 12th September 2013
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Record ID: DOR-09E120
Object type: MICROBURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A microburin made on a tertiary flake of light brown translucent flint with a mid gloss patina. At the proximal end is a small striking platform. The flake has been notched with small abrupt retouch in order to remove the distal end for manufacturing a microlith. There is a small bulb of percussion on the ventral face. Date: Mesolithic - 8300 - 3500 BC. Dimensions: 20.5 mm x 17 mm x 4 mm Weight: 1 g
Created on: Saturday 26th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2011
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Record ID: DOR-F76CF6
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flake probably grey flint with a thick off white patina. There is a wide striking platform. There is a small bulb of percussion and dispersed waves of percussion on the ventral face. The distal end is plough damaged. On the dorsal face there are several narrow parallel flake removal scars. The flake has a triangular profile. A waste flake from bladelet production. Date:Late Mesolithic - 6500 -3500- BC Dimensions: 18 mm x 8 mm x 3 mm Weight: 0.5 g
Created on: Friday 25th November 2011
Last updated: Saturday 26th November 2011
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Record ID: DOR-F620A4
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medial segment of secondary flake of mottled grey brown flint with a mid gloss patina. At theproximal end is a small striking platform. The bulb of percussion is small and there ae fine waves of percussinon on the ventral face.The distal end has been broken off. There are traces of cortex on the dorsal face. On the dorsal face there are several parallel flake removal scars. The flake has a trapezoidal profile. A waste flake from blade production. Date: Late Mesolithic- Early Neolithic - 6500- 2500 BC Dimensions: 18 mm x 15.5 mm x 2.5 mm Weight: 1 g
Created on: Friday 25th November 2011
Last updated: Saturday 26th November 2011
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