Record ID: SOM-5DF18C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One scraper made on a thin secondary flake of slightly mottled dark grey flint with a well-developed bulb of percussion and a break along the distal part of one margin, which additionally carries a small area of worn nodule cortex. The distal end and distal part of one margin have been modified by irregular abrupt retouch to form a rough working edge. Unpatinated, and in moderately sharp condition. Neolithic or Bronze Age. 27.5mm long, 23.7mm wide, 5.4mm thick and weighs 4.19g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4B24AD
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of debitage which is probably of Neolithic, mainly Early Neolithic date with some possibly Mesolithic material. Total weight 33.72g. Nine unmodified waste flakes (five secondary, four tertiary), all in mottled mid-dark grey flint with paler grey inclusions. Three are broken, with distal ends absent. Some exhibit evidence for core-edge preparation and all are relatively thin and elongate with negligible or weakly formed bulbs of percussion suggestive of use of a relatively soft percussor. As such they are (as a group) unlikely to post-date the earlier part of the Neolithic…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4B0A88
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tranchet arrowhead made across the distal end of a thin blade or blade- flake (width 19mm) of marbled mid-mid-light grey flint. Both the flared, irregular cutting edge and the narrower butt comprise original sharp flake edges; both incurved margins have been formed using irregular abrupt dorsal retouch (from ventral face). Probably Neolithic in date. 23.7mm long, 4.5mm thick, 19mm wide, 1.77g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4AB4A2
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick secondary waste flake of mottled mid-light to pale grey flint with part of a banded fossil inclusion. There is almost no bulb of percussion, and the flake may have been struck through the chalky cortex adhering to part of the dorsal surface. One margin has an area of possible slight abrupt retouch, but this is more plausibly post-depositional damage. Unpatinated and in slightly worn, battered condition. Neolithic – Bronze Age. 41.2mm long, 31.2mm wide, 14.5mm thick and weighs 19.72g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A9B1D
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Retouched flake made on a formerly elongated flake of mottled mid- to pale brownish grey flint with a slight bulb of percussion and a triangular cross-section. There is minor post-depositional damage to the ventral face of the margins, and the distal end has been lost to a break, one margin has steep, irregular, semi-invasive dorsal retouch (from the ventral face), possibly for purposes of blunting. Unpatinated, slightly worn. Neolithic – Bronze Age. 21.6mm long, 17.5mm wide, 6.3mm thick and weighs 2.83g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A929B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four flint scrapers, all of Neolithic or earlier Bronze Age date. Small ‘thumbnail’ type made on a squat primary flake of dark grey flint with worn, thin light brown/buff cortex on the dorsal face and a well-developed bulb of percussion. Striking of the flake has detached a small secondary area of the butt on the dorsal face. The distal end of the flake has been modified with irregular semi-invasive- then abrupt dorsal retouch (from the ventral face) to form a curvilinear working edge (possibly showing some post-depositional damage). Both flake margins remain unmodified. …
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A6BE5
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leaf-shaped bifacial knife or unfinished arrowhead preform, made on a secondary flake of mid-dark brownish grey flint with areas of worn nodule cortex on the dorsal face. The ventral face has been modified around almost its entire edge by irregular semi-invasive retouch, leaving a minority of the original flake surface intact. On the dorsal face, only the distal half has been worked with irregular invasive retouch. 47.2mm long, 24.9mm wide, 7.3mm thick and weighs 8.72g. The longitudinal cross-section remains markedly asymmetrical (following the incurve of the original flake…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A570C
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oblique arrowhead made on a flake of mid-light grey-brown flint. One long edge has been bifacially worked obliquely across the flake, with irregularly pressure flaked semi-invasive retouch on the dorsal face and more abrupt retouch on the ventral face and a slight ‘inturn’ of this margin toward the butt-end. The butt has irregular semi-invasive retouch on the dorsal face only, and the remaining long edge comprises sharp, unmodified flake edge. Unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition. 25.3mm long, 18.0mm wide, 4.1mm thick and weighs 1.53g. Typologically attributable…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A2168
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One parallel-sided blade (broken, distal end absent) in fine-grained pale grey-brown Greensand Chert. Triangular cross-section. Unmodified. Unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition. 47.3mm long, 19.3mm wide and 6.9mm thick, 6.85g in weight. Potentially earlier Neolithic in date.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-478FC1
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five pieces of worked flint all found in the same area and recorded as a group. 3 x unmodified secondary waste flakes, all bearing traces of worn nodule cortex: two (one each in dark brownish grey and slightly marbled mid- to mid-light grey flint) are irregular, possibly resulting from initial dressing and regularisation of nodules for knapping; the third is a smaller, thinner flake of mid- greyish brown translucent flint with cortex remaining at its distal end. All are unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition 1 x tertiary flake in dark brownish grey, representing the d…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AD5225
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of flint debitage, probably of Neolithic to Bronze Age date, although a later, Iron Age date cannot be ruled out, 4000 BC to 40 AD. One is a tertiary flake struck off a platform with evidence of previous removals in the same direction and slight damage chipping along one edge. The second is a secondary piece with cortext along one side and is a fragment from a large blade, the distal and proximal ends of which are missing. Both are stuck from mottled, mid-grey flint and weigh 4.61g in total.
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Montacute', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-E8503A
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two retouched flint flakes / small blades of later Mesolithic or Neolithic date. The pieces are both made from translucent dark brown-grey flint, one slightly paler, and are secondary pieces with small amounts of cortext at their distal ends on their dorsal faces. Both have prominent bulbs of percussion on the ventral face and breaks at the proximal end where the platform should be. Both also have evidence for multiple parallel previous blade removals from the same platform. The paler piece has short, scalar, semi-abrupt retouch down the entire left edge (on the dorsal face) and t…
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-E7B237
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic polished flint axehead, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The surviving fragment is sub-trapezoidal in plan and pointed oval in cross section. At both ends it terminates in an irregular break and chips also extend into the sides. Clear striations from polishing survive on both faces of the axehead. The flint is mainly opaque white with some areas of more translucent pale grey and patches of orange iron staining from post-deposition processes. Dimensions: length 47.7mm; width 29.8mm; thickness 15.9mm; weight 29.32g. The size suggests this is from near …
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1E6436
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of flint cores of Mesolithic to Bronze Age date. Both appear to have been used to produce blade like pieces with repeated removals from a prepared platform. Due to the size of the pieces these blades, at least the last to be produced were very short. The dark grey piece (13.47g) is sub-conical with cortex left on one side and parallel removals from an upper platform. The beige-brown piece (35.68g) also has cortex left along one side but has a broken with a large section, possibly 50% or more, missing to a impact in the centre of the upper platform. There are the scars fo…
Created on: Friday 18th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Withycombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-F4DC15
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken segment of a larger tool, probably a side and end scraper of Neolithic date, c.4000-2000 BC. It was formed on a large blade of dark grey tanslucent flint. The proximal end and the right edge (seen from the ventral face with proximal end downwards) is entirely missing to a long break. Impact scars on the ventral in the middle of this break may suggest it was deliberate or may be the result of post deposition impact, sone removals from it on the dorsal face may be accidental damage. There is extensive retouch on both faces along the remaining side to give a straigh edge. Semi abr…
Created on: Saturday 29th September 2018
Last updated: Sunday 30th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-F359D1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint axehead, possibly an unfinished roughout, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The axe has a convex curved blade which is the widest point, from this it tapers evenly in width to the rounded butt. The axe is pointed oval in cross section across the width and broadly so along the length wih the thickest point slghtly closer to the blade than the butt. The blade is broadly C-shaped with a large notch from damage towards one end and several other chips removed by damage on one face. The axe has no evidence of polishing and there is little fine working at the blade althou…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-9863A4
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two chert blades both with clear bulbs of percussion on the ventral face and scars from previous parallel removals from the same platform on the dorsal face. Both have very chipped edges obscuring any retouch. One is a orange chert, heavily repatinated, the other a mid brown. They weigh 12.48g in total. The blade like shape and repeat parallel removals may suggest a Mesolithic- Neolithic date.
Created on: Monday 13th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-8DEE48
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal end of a retouched flint flake or blade or probably Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. The piece has snapped off a larger, but thin, flake or blade with the proximal end lost. The remaining scars on the dorsal face, and the percussion ripples on the ventral face suggets the piece was removed from a core worked in at least two directions at right angles to each other. The entire original edge has been retouched with short, parallel, semi-abrupt retouch becoming longer towards the ends of the remaining edge. It was possibly originaly part of a scraper but too little remains to b…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-C05873
Object type: BURNT FLINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a core which has part of the prepared platform and scars from repeated parallel removals of blades / flakes form it. The sides, distal end and ventral face are all broken with irregular breaks, made angular due to the burnt surface and with no bulb of percussion visible. The surface is white with angular crack marks. The piece is 35.9mm wide, 27.2mm long, 8.8mm thick and weighs 6.92 grams. The working style and associated material may suggest a Neolithic date.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-BFF8D3
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two thin blades or flakes that have areas of extensive retouch. Both appear incomplete and may be pieces that were abandoned part way though working. One is a large flake or blade with a snap at the distal end, part of the corner of which has been retouched on the ventral face with shallow, short scalar retouch. There is also long to invasive, scalar shallow retouch on both faces aross the proximal end and the original proximal end with the bulb of percussion has been removed. This invasive, shallow, scalar retouch continues down one edge on the dorsal face. The style of retouch is…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Spatial data recorded.