Record ID: CAM-CF34F6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint blade. The presence of a very slight bulb of percussion suggests soft hammer production. A conchoidal fracture can be seen on the dorsal face. Two other angles have also been struck from the strike platform forming a sub-triangular cross-section across the blade. The stike platform is unclear suggesting that it may have been chipped or damaged during deposition. Two parallel blades have been removed from this piece of flint, one half seems to have been removed in two sections, one above the other. There is no evidence of retouch. The blade is thin enough to be translu…
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walton on the Nase Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-7DCAEE
Object type: MATTOCK
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete antler mattock of a style typical in Mesolithic artefacts. These hafted tools, although referred to as mattocks, can also be used as a pick-like or hammer tools. Similar examples have previously found in England including at the site of Star Carr. The example recorded here would have been a hammer variant. It is now incomplete and no haft remains. The remains of this artefact weights 133.64g. It has a length of 135.3mm, maximum width of 44.7mm and thickness of 67.2mm. The base of the antler is present but worn with only approximately one-quarter of the circumference h…
Created on: Sunday 24th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-ECADA8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably an axehead, or possibly an adze, of Mesolithic date. This prehistoric tool has been knapped (struck) out of flint. Most of the artefact survives though there is some damage particularly at the cutting edge which removed some of the diagnostic area that might have helped determine more conclusively between axehead and adze. In its current condition the object weighs 167.98g. It has maximum dimensions of: length of 141.9mm, width 38.4mm and thickness 28.7mm. Mostly a medium to dark deep toffee colour with lesser patches of beige, pale brown/dark cream colour.
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-3BB783
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Published
A perforated worked stone artefact probably/possibly a mace of Early Mesolithic to Neolithic date. The artefact is a rounded pebble, oval in plan with a length of 49.11mm and width of 37.65mm. Through the, approximate, centre of the stone is a circular perforation that has been worked from both sides towards the centre. The perforation has differing diameters on either side and both sides of the perforation taper in towards the centre. The perforation on one side has a diameter of 19.43mm tapering to 7.90mm in the middle of the stone before flaring out to a diameter of 19.07mm on the …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 9th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-BB87BF
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A recorticated tertiary flint core. This core has a sub-trapezoidal to sub-triangular cross-section and sub oval shape with a single flaking direction. It was used in the production of broad blades suggesting an Early Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date. Possible presence of core dressing. Probably a Clark (1960) Type A2. Weight 11.41g, length 50.3mm, maximum width 17.9mm, maximum thickness 11.6mm. Finder's reference: SP6.
Created on: Friday 16th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-DABE02
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A tertiary flint blade, of Early Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date (9000-6500BC/4000-3300BC) which has completely recorticated and is now white in colour with the exception for a small recent chip which shows the dark grey to black flint below. Bulb and point of percussion visible as are conchoidal ripple marks. The dorsal face shows removal of parallel blades. Possible short parallel to sub-parallel abrupt to semi-abrupt retouch on the proximal dorsal and proximal dorsal mesal edge. Halfway along the dorsal face a transverse stepped or hinge fracture, most visible on the outer…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 21st September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-A2FC37
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A tertiary flint blade, struck with a soft hammer, recorticated overall. Blades of the form were made during the Late Upper Palaeolithic, Early Mesolithic and Early Neolithic making dating difficult. Weight is 0.97g, length is 29.4mm, width is 10.1mm and thickness is 3.2mm.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.