Record ID: SUR-C90FC1
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large and heavily recorticated flint blade which has been retouched along one side using long, low angle and semi abrupt scaled and stepped retouch. The other long edge retains cortex along its length; the distal end narrows to a square terminal with a hinge fracture. This is possibly identifiable as a backed blade of Final Late Upper Palaeolithic date (c. 13,000 BC) although such tools were produced throughout prehistory.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-F04E87
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A handaxe made on a rounded nodule of mottled mid to dark grey flint. The butt is principally formed from worn, chalky cortex, modified by an area of steep flaking on both faces. The resulting sharp edges appear deliberately battered to blunt. The remainder is all-over flaked, with shallow flake scars except for the area of stacked hinge fractures on one face. The margins are slightly zig-zagged and gently concave, originally converging to a narrow, elongate pointed tip, which has been lost to more recent damage. The handaxe has a pointed oval section. Date: Lower P…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Saturday 25th March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-EFE4E3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially worked flint implement made on an irregular nodule of opaque mottled orangey brown flint. Areas of worn chalky cortex remain on both faces and part of one margin. The remainder of the surface comprises irregular, sometimes deep flake scars, many of which have hinge terminations. Neither the butt nor the tip are well formed and one margin appears truncated by very steep opportunistic flaking. The object may be an abandoned hand-axe blank or roughout which has failed because of large flaws within the stone. The steep truncated margin may indicate subsequent salvagi…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Saturday 25th March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-FA3457
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint Lower Palaeolithic handaxe dating to 500,00 - 180,000BC. Of cordate form completely bifacially flaked. One side is flatter than the other. One edge recently damaged. Large pot lid fracture, probably pre-dating the manufacture, in centre of one side which revealed a fragment of fossil shell. Several frost cracks visible. There is c-5% cortex on one side. Off-white patina.
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A0A5FF
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flaked handaxe. A bout coupé handaxe. The flint is dark brown and patinated to a glossy light orange-brown and cream. The flint is highly siliceous. There is an area of abraded thick nodule cortex on one side of the butt. The axe is sub-triangular or cordiform in plan, with a plano-convex cross section and a straight profile. One face has a large post-depositional thermal fracture scar (a "pot-lid" removal) which is patinated to a paler, more matt, off-white. There are also several thermal fracture lines visible on both faces. Both faces are covered in soft-hammer flake removals r…
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th October 2021
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Record ID: DOR-28D513
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint handaxe. A narrow, thick-butted handaxe made on a nodule of pale grey to mid-grey flint. The handaxe has been rolled and the small areas of cortex that r3emain are abraded. The surface has a low-gloss orange patina. It has been bifacially worked and has a plano-convex cross section. There are large shallow flaking scars along the long edges on both faces and a marked hinge fracture at one side on the planar face. The butt is thick and more steeply flaked. There are areas of abraded cortex on bot faces. One long edge is slightly curved and the other is straight. The wear and …
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 13th August 2021
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Record ID: DOR-EEF918
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude, unifacially worked probable handaxe. Made on a large, natural flint flake. One face retains the naturally broken surface. There is a natural perpendicular break at one end, used to form the butt of the implement. The other face has crude covering flaking worked from the margins to form the sub-triangular shape. The surfaces are all heavily abraded with significant rolling abrasion to the flake scar ridges. It is heavily stained and repatinated to a dark orange brown. There is some post-depositional edge damage. Date: Lower to Middle Palaeolithic - c. 500000 to 40000 BC
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: DOR-CDE218
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An Acheulian greensand chert handaxe of 'ficron' type with an elongated tapering point and larger rounded butt. Both faces are carefully flaked to produce a lenticular cross section, thinning along the axis of the axe to a fine blunt-pointed tip. The margins of the axe are slightly convex and also carefully worked to form even centre line edges. The sub-squared butt is formed from two natural fractures and has been battered to blunt the edge created by axial flaking on the opposite face. The original chert seems to be variable mid brown-grey and particularily fine grained. Surface…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2019
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Record ID: DOR-B82A3D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint blade flake or blade. A tertiary flake of heavily patinated and worn pale grey flint. The patina is matt and yellow-white. An elongate flake with a trapeziodal cross section. A wide striking platform at the proximal end and possibly broken distally. There is a wide bulb of percussion with radiating hackles at on the ventral face of the proximal end and widely space waves of percussion along the length. On the dorsal face are three main parallel flake removals and a smaller flake removal at the top. The patination is not typical of the usual calcareous Dorset soils. The e…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Record ID: DOR-18C735
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Levalloisian core flake. Sub-oval in shape with a lenticular cross-section. The flaking appears intentionally to have shaped the flint while still on the original core, creating a distinctive 'tortoise shell' flaking, typical of Levallois flint technology. The ventral face shows a prominent bulb of percussion indicating probable use of a hard hammer. The flint is opaque and mid-grey with a mid-gloss patina but is now covered in a smooth off-white recortification except for an area of modern damage on the right side margin of the dorsal face which exposes the natural colour …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2018
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Record ID: DOR-CDA09D
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Acheulian greensand chert handaxe of 'cordate' type. Both faces are flaked all over by indeterminate mode percussion. One face has a well-developed convex flake pattern, the other has a slightly off-centre axial ridge, enhanced by a well-developed hinge fracture to one side. The waist of the axe is relatively thick, and the asymmetrical butt has a wedge shaped axial profile. The chert was originally mid to dark orange brown and now has a slight repatination, all surfaces are matt. One area of hard greensand remains, forming part of the waist of the axe. There is slight abrasion …
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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Record ID: DOR-CE041D
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Acheulian greensand chert handaxe of 'ovate' type. The axe is well thinned and both faces exhibit large, shallow flake scars all over with only minor secondary edge working. The slightly irregular cutting edge extends around the entire axe, including the slightly squared butt, and the piece exhibits a marked S-twist. The chert is mid orange-brown and fine grained, largely reflecting the original colour (seen in areas of minor edge damage); the patina on one face is matt, the other slightly semi-gloss. Flake scar ridges are slightly abraded but there is no evidence for prolonged …
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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Record ID: DOR-9046AE
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete thick butted handaxe of 'pointed' or 'sub-cordate' type. Bifacially flaked on nodular flint with coarse inclusions. Areas of weathered chalky cortex survive on the butt and on one face. Flaking is steep to semi-invasive, with some relatively deep scars, producing a crude trapezoidal to lenticular cross section. Edges are irregular but overall are broadly straight and mid-line. The tip has been lost by flaking in antiquity. There is a zone of surface chatter at the butt end of the object - possibly the result of percussion or battering activities but equally possibly natu…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
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Record ID: DEV-9A8E1F
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe, probably dating to c. 500,000-40,000 BC. The handaxe is ovate in plan and broadly pointed-oval in cross section, in profile it is very broadly piriform, thicker near the base, although tapering to point at both ends. The cutting edges are largely straight with no evidence of tranchet removals. The handaxe has a trimmed and rounded butt, and a basal point. The surface of the flint is orange/brown mottled with darker areas, at more recent chips the flint can be seen to be a fairly pale orange/brown, almost chert-like material. The tool has been bifaci…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Record ID: DOR-A33686
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small bifacially worked handaxe made in dark grey chert with a thick pale grey recortification and low-gloss patina. Flaked all over using a soft hammer to form a fully circumferential mid-line cutting edge which is straight on one side but slightly curved on the other. The tip is slightly thinned and there is an 's' twist to the butt. The axe has pointed oval cross section and overall the axe is cordate in shape. There is no appreciable 'rolling' or post-depositional abrasion of flake scar ridges and much of the original dressed edge survives intact. There is very minor po…
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2017
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Record ID: DOR-D2D2E5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick-butted handaxe made on a weathered secondary nodule of mid to dark grey flint, visible on a small area of modern damage on the tip. Sub-cordate in shape with an asymmetric cross-section, the exposed flint covering 90% of one face has developed a thick high-gloss mottled greyish white repatination while the other face shows a thicker more chalky white, matte recortification, the butt retains thick, chalky nodule cortex and incorporates a natural thermal spall scar. The remainder of the object has shallow, irregular invasive conchoidal flaking on both faces affected on one fa…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5120B1
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint handaxe of probable Lower Palaeolithic date. The handaxe is a crude and unifacially worked implement made from light grey and orange-brown flint with brown banding. It has a matte patina. One face has several clear flaking scars and a large area of nodule cortex. The other side is largely unworked, with several natural fractures. However, there are some flaking scars around the edges of this side which are more likely to be derived from human action. Identified by Chris Norman as Wymer (1968) type E.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2004
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2017
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Record ID: DOR-074E98
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible core or crude handaxe fragment. Mottled dark grey to pale grey flint discoidal core or broken handaxe butt made on a tabular nodule with shallow lustrous yellow-brown staining and a mid gloss patina. Some worn orange-red-brown cortex remains on both faces and one margin. The remainder of both faces are covered with large shallow broad flake removal scars suggesting use of a soft hammer, those on the putative 'butt' end are steeper and adjacent to an area of cortex. There is a relatively straight vertical break across the whole piece which may represent (ancient) breakage an…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2017
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Record ID: DOR-07A576
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete heavy butted crude flint handaxe with a narrow rounded tip made on a nodule of off white mottled alluvial gravel flint. Two areas of the butt retain much older deeply recorticated (probably natural) flake scars with a now mid-yellow brown colour. One face has all over broad flake removal scars, the other is mostly flaked with mainly shallow scars suggesting use of a soft hammer. The tip is tapered to a point and thinned and the cutting edges are irregular but straight overall and he axe has an irregular crested cross section. The patina is high gloss with a lustrous pale ye…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2017
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Record ID: DOR-A3EA64
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete elongate possible handaxe or knife made on a fragment of mid grey nodular flint. The relatively thick but narrow butt retains cortex on one side face and there is cortex along part of one edge, part has been lost due to thermal cracking. The cortex is now pale yellow brown and the exposed flint has a faintly yellowish off white recortification with a mid gloss patina. Much of one face and the greater part of the other face has broad shallow flaking indicating probable use of a soft hammer to form a narrow, thinned, elongate blade with a rounded tip. There is fine secondary …
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2017
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