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: NLM-5A8647
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Granite pebble hammerstone. A large rounded water-worn cobble of a pale hard igneous rock, probably granite from Glacial Drift. Both ends are brightened and scarred by use as a pounding or hammering tool. The finder kindly notes that an area of the more extensively battered end was reused as a polisher, which has smoothed this zone over a length of 32mm. Suggested date: probably Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC Length: 89.7mm, Width: 68.6mm, Thickness: 43.8mm, Weight: c.410gms
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DF9EEA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone polished axehead. Greenstone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 128.9mm, Width: 61.7mm, Thickness: 34.9mm
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CA16D6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey metamorphic polished stone axe fragment. A chip identified by the finder as from a stone axe of darker metamorphic rock than the familiar Group VI axe-heads, from imported elsewhere in western Britain. Three long thin parallel flakes have been struck from the dorsal side by probably bipolar working [i.e. from both ends] leaving a concave ventral surface. This pattern of working would usually commend a later Mesolithic date, though the use of part of an axe may extend that date range into the early Neolithic. Another small fragment of similar stone has been reported from the v…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-36CF65
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Limestone axe, polished cutting edge, part of surface hacked and left crude. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC length (from drawing]: 153mm
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CDD795
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group 6 Langdale stone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC. Length (from drawing): 90mm
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-688D98
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint nodule with a thick covering of brown-stained cortex; possible hammer stone. A naturally formed flint nodule with limited surface zones of hackling, perhaps suggesting localised heating, and more extensive traces of battering which have chipped or removed areas of cortex and exposed a natural cavity. The brittle nature of the material would not make this an ideal material for any percussive function, and if the identification were sustained it would point to an improvised use. Suggested date: possibly Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC Diameter: 69mm, Weight: c.345gms
Created on: Tuesday 18th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-925D90
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green volcanic tufa, polished axe fragment. A fragment from the mid-part of a greenstone polished axe, probably Group 6 from the Langdale axe quarries, Cumbria. A lentoid-section fragment with one chipped, rounded and perhaps re-ground and re-used wider end, and with an angled fracture across its narrower end. Dishing on one side, to length 58mm, suggests a previous repair by polishing of a spalled chip from the side of the axe while it was still serving its primary function. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 75.8mm, Width: 51.7mm, Thickness: 28.3mm, Weight: 13…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AAA29D
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Volcanic tuff polished stone axe fragment, probably Group 6, from the Langdale axe factory, Cumbria. The butt end of a lentoid-section axe-head with chips on both sides, some perhaps arising from use as a battering tool at the broken end. One chip, which remains clear of both ends, appears to have been inflicted and smoothed over before the others, perhaps when the axehead was more complete and undergoing its primary use. Further cracks may also arise from heating and sudden cooling. Abraded. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 62mm, Width: 49.4mm, Thickness: 28.4mm, …
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D73C10
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green fine-grained Tuf, polished axehead fragment. A thick and battered fragment of a greenstone Group 6 Langdale axehead. One side retains part of the polished surface, which is elsewhere entirely lost to battering or abrasion; perhaps executed with oblique strokes of a hard hammer on the side opposite the relict surface, and perhaps arising from use as a pounder at the projecting parts of the stone. Langdale axes are more common around the Humber than anywhere except their quarry site. The re-use of this fragment from a large example does not appear to have respected its origin…
Created on: Thursday 14th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-222A8D
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey-green volcanic Tuf, polished axe head fragment. The crescentic cutting edge and the larger part of a Neolithic greenstone polished axe, probably of Group 6 from the Langdale axe factory in Cumbria. The axehead is of oval section with a single flattened facet along its upper and lower sides, which are straight as far as the object now survives. A small chip near the broken end of the object has been smoothed and polished in antiquity, and was probably damage incurred and remedied in the course of the object's working life. A larger shallow chip towards the cutting edge on the…
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 26th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-E333DB
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone polished axe head. A grey-green fine-grained volcanic tuf, here taken to be from Langdale, Cumbria, formed into a polished Group 6 axe head of oval form and section. The finder kindly notes this rounded section contrasts with the facetted edges seen on other examples from the vicinity. Some small chips or surface irregularities may have been inflicted and rubbed down before or during the working life of the axehead. The narrow butt is lightly battered. The primary use as an axe, however, ended with the controlled removal of the cutting edge from the broader end either by batteri…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A2591B
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coarse-grained pink quartzite [non-specialist identification by MF] possible hammer stone, as kindly suggested by the finder. An oval pebble with flat sides, possibly formed and smoothed by rolling in water or by Aeolian 'desert glossing', with one flat and three battered zones around its edge, the latter revealing crystalline structures. The object appears attractive and may well have been selected, perhaps from glacial drift, for its fleshy colour. The localised abrasion could have arisen from relatively light hard hammer working, a technique especially characteristic of the Neolith…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5E7D81
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey stone polished axe fragment. A trapezoid flake which has spalled from the side or cutting edge of a polished stone axe head. The smooth finish and homogenous fabric might point to this being from a Group 6 axe made of tufa from Langdale, Cumbria. Suggested date: Early to Mid Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC. Length: 38.1mm, Width: 26.5mm, Thickness: 3.6mm, Weight: 5.37gms
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-450DED
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Grey-green stone polished axehead fragment. A thin sliver chipped - probably by plough-strike - from a polished stone axe, probably of Langdale Group 6. A small patch of the polished surface remains on one side along with more extensive fracture surfaces; it has a curved edge, though whether this points to an origin from close to the cutting edge remains uncertain. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC. Length: 35.6mm, Width: 27.6mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 6.29gms.
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-33479A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Brown igneous stone; polished axe fragment. A large chip comprising about half the cutting edge and a short length of one side of a polished stone axe. The upper or lower edge is flattened, giving a facetted edge to a lentoid section. The other edges are broken unevenly with jagged fracture surfaces. The finder kindly suggests the brownish tint to be different from that of the commonly reported Langdale axes, though these can appear in a range of colours; the object would require thin section to clarify its geological origin. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC. Length: 63.5mm,…
Created on: Friday 27th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F7D023
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green stone possible polished axe roughout. An oval pebble of biconvex lentoid section with opposed curving edges, one more regular than the other, and with a rough and uneven surface. The finder kindly suggests this to be a possible Neolithic polished axe head fragment, though the rough surface would be more likely on a later stone 'battle axe' or maul. The form and profile are, however, reminiscent of a polished axe head. This stone might have been recovered from glacial Drift rather than from one or other of the attested sources of polished axes. Associated worked flints were …
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9B4225
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Grey green tuff polished axehead fragment. A small chip or spall from the cutting edge of a greenstone polished axehead, with more of the stone on one side of the edge than the other. A flat and polished facet one side of the fragment marks the limit of the cutting edge, and indicates that the axe head whence it derives had flattened upper and lower edges. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC. Length: 23.7mm, Height: 23.2mm, Thickness (of this chip rather than the axe): 6.4mm, Weight: 5.57gms
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.