Record ID: CORN-C8CAA9
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint discoidal knife, circular in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The knife has bifacial retouch, after taking off larger flakes at a shallow angle on both the dorsal and ventral face to flatten the piece and to remove the bulb of percussion on at the proximal end of the ventral face. The entire cirumference of the circular margin has also been retouched on both faces so that the whole edge could have been used by hand to cut material in a rotating motion. One side has not been backed for hafting where the flint would have been slotted into a wooden or antler handle.…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2015
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-C80DEA
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Polished stone axe head, sub-rectangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The edge of the blade has several flakes that hace been taken off of it, probably through damage rather than use, as polished axes like this example may have been for more ceremonial use. There are more recent scratches and gashes in the polished surface which are most likely caused by plough damage or since the axe has been removed from its context. The axe head would have originally been hafted and held in an organic haft or handle, which has since perished. The axe is grey-green in colour an…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: CORN-2144E2
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint arrowhead, triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, with a layer of cortex still remaining on both faces from th edge of the barb to the point at the distal end. The arrowhead has a central tang, but thetwo barbs are stuntedand triangulated rather than actual barbs, as seen in more developed examples where the barbsextend to the end of the tang.These barbsare at right-angles to the tang and end at the point where the tang begins.The dorsal face has been invasively retouched throughout, from all margins to meet at the slight medial ridge, and the ventral face…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Record ID: CORN-EB48C4
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete greenstone (epidiorite) shafthole adze, sub-oval in plan, tapering slightly towards the surviving end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. About half of the adze remains, including the blade end, and half of the shaft hole. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The implement has been worked from a beach cobble and would have been collected from the coast. It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill. The shaft hole is semi-circular …
Created on: Saturday 27th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
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Record ID: CORN-EE43AA
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small igneous rock ball or hammerstone of coarsely foliated greenstone. The ball is circular in plan and ovate in profile and section, with pecking on the upper surface and a flattened weathered base. The shape appears to result predominantly from weathering but one side is smoothed and rounded and appears to have been used for grinding. The hammerstone is conveniently hand sized, like CORN-EE5A2B. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. It is quite possible that the wear on these objects has been caused by grinding pieces in t…
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-ED9A3B
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a quartzite ovoid macehead, semi-circular in plan and profile and plano-convex in section, with a mottled grey and 'port wine stain' colouration. Half of the perforation or shafthole remains, which is circular in plan and 20 mm in diameter. The shafthole would have held a wooden handle or haft to complete the mace, and would have been bored by using sand and a drill. The shafthole is an hourglass shape in profile, suggesting that it has been drilled from both sides, and is 38 mm in height. This shape might have improved hafting, especially if the wooden haft or handle was …
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-ED06E2
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greisen cup-marked stone, sub-square in plan and profile and plano-convex in section. The convex face has three dimples that are 25 mm in diameter, in a circular arrangement, which run up to the broken edges on both sides, suggesting that there were more cup-marks on the missing piece. The underside of the stone has been damaged with two deep linear grooves in a cross formation that reveals the quartz beneath the weathered and soiled surface. These cup-marked decorated stones are generally dated from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age because they are sometimes asso…
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-AF0C19
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Axehead of metabasic rock derived from a doleritic/gabbroic igneous rock with some aspects of Group1 mineralogy, ovate in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. The blade end is weathered and damaged at one end, and the butt end has been pecked and ground in order to taper it to a point for hafting. The dorsal face is much more uneven and has the characteristic pitted weathering seen with implements derived from coarser gabbroic greenstone, and the ventral face has been ground to a more smooth surface. The dorsal face has a curved groove that follows a thin vein of fine-g…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 29th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-AEA07F
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Axehead of basaltic basic rock, with black reflective crystal inclusions, ovate in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. The blade end is weathered and has been damaged by a shallow linear groove on the dorsal face, probably caused by a plough, and the butt end has been pecked and ground in order to taper it for hafting. Both faces have a pink colour probably caused by iron staining and the course pitted crystalline appearance of the surface suggests that it may have been heated and altered in some way, which could have led to the crack that runs transversely thoughout t…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Record ID: CORN-AE1374
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete axehead roughout of doleritic and gabbroic rock subject to substantial replacement by amphibole similar to Group 1, lozenge-shaped in plan, profile and in section. The blade end has been damaged by a deep linear groove on both faces, probably caused by a plough, and the butt end has been pecked in order to taper it, but not ground or completed. The dorsal face is rough and uneven with several ridges alternating with recesses which have not been ground down, and has the characteristic pitted weathering seen with implements derived from coarser gabbroic greenstone. The ventra…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Record ID: CORN-AD44BC
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete axehead or hammerstone of a doleritic basic rock with a general similarity to the variants of Group 16, sub-square in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. The blade end has been damaged through use and wear and the butt end has been pecked and appears to have had secondary use as a hammerstone. The ventral face is more ground and polished but has several deep grooves and gashes from more recent damage as well as an area where the surface has spalled away near the right margin. The dorsal face is smooth in two areas but also has areas of damage towards the bla…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Record ID: CORN-AB58F1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken blade end of an adze of gabbroic greenstone, sub-square in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. About half of the original tool survives, as it is missing its longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex, with a defined yet scooped edge, suggesting that the tool was used as an adze for carving and smoothing the wood rather than an axe for chopping. The ven…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: CORN-EC62C3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint oblique arrowhead, triangular in plan with a hollow base, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The base with its slight barbs on either side would have been hafted on to the arrow shaft. There is invasive retouch on both the dorsal and ventral faces, and on all margins and at the distal and proximal ends. The colour of the flint is a slightly translucent mottled grey-brown colour which suggests that it was probably derived from a local beach pebble. There is a cortical patch at the distal end, which is lighter grey in colour. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:2 which …
Created on: Monday 28th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
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Record ID: CORN-E12F35
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint discoidal knife, semi-circular in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The knife has notched unifacial retouch around the circumference of the entire curved distal end and side margins of the dorsal face. The proximal end has been left, with just a notch in the left margin of the dorsal face, which may have improved hafting, when this end of the knife was slotted into a wooden or antler handle. The proximal end also has stepped grooves and recesses at right angles which have been caused by frost fracturing or weathering, on the dorsal face. The proximal end has been …
Created on: Monday 28th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Record ID: CORN-FE9BF7
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint discoidal backed knife, ovate in plan, trapezoidal in profile and plano-convex in section. The knife has notched unifacial retouch, after taking off larger flakes at a steep angle, along the whole of the right margin of the dorsal face and finer even less angled retouch along the whole of the left margin. The right margin has been 'backed' in this way and could have been hafted along this edge, slotting the knife into a wooden or antler handle. The opposite left margin, which is straighter and still very sharp, would have been used as the blade edge. The distal end of the dorsal…
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-820F44
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One flint awl, triangular in plan and section, and two snapped serrated flakes, sub-rectangular in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile, and triangular in section. The awl has retouch along the left margin of the dorsal face leading to the distal end, which is a point, and is snapped on the right margin of the dorsal face, so any work is missing. The serrated flakes have retouch on the left margin of the ventral face into serrated edges, and along both margins of the dorsal face, so that they might have been used as saws. The flint is a mottled pale to mid grey colour, but would have origi…
Created on: Friday 11th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-815BF8
Object type: GRAVER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint gravers, sub-rectangular in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile, and triangular in section. On the larger graver, the dorsal face has been retouched at the distal end and along both margins, with the right margin worked more abruptly into a graver edge. There is a small patch of cortex on the dorsal face at the distal end and patches of iron staining on both faces. On the smaller graver, the ventral face has also been abruptly retouched along the left margin into a notched edge and along the right margin into a serrated edge. The flint is a mottled pale to mid grey colour, but w…
Created on: Friday 11th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-80D794
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint end and side scraper, sub-ovate in plan and semi-circular in profile and triangular section, with abrupt unifacial retouch at the proximal end and along part of the right margin of the dorsal face, up to the edge of the cortex. There is also some more oblique retouch along the left margin of the dorsal face. There is some natural fracturing, creating a stepped edge on the medial ridge of the dorsal face. A layer of cortex remains over half of the dorsal face from the mid-point to the distal end, and around its edge there is also damage through frost fracturing. The colour of …
Created on: Friday 11th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-6AD675
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six flint disc and thumbnail scrapers, semi-circular in plan and in profile, all with varying degrees of cortex remaining on the dorsal faces and retouched around from the distal ends to the side margins where the flint is exposed, to meet the edge of the cortex. The flint is a mottled light to dark grey with a thin buff-coloured cortex, which suggests that it was derived from local beach flint, with some patches of orange iron staining. The length to breadth ratio is around 1:1 which is typical for such scrapers. Bond (2004) illustrates similar examples of disc and thumbnail sc…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-68CE33
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl, triangular in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and lentoid in section, with a pointed distal end and a snapped proximal end at the base of the bulb of percussion. The awl has been unifacially retouched on the left margin of the dorsal face and bifacially retouched on the right margin, where there is some working on the ventral face, just below the pointed distal end where the dorsal retouch ends, to create a serrated edge. So it may have been used as a saw as well as an awl for perforation. The flint is mottled light to dark grey in colour, which suggests that it might have …
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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