Record ID: DOR-D92666
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint hammerstone. A rounded, sub-speroidal piece of mid grey-brown flint with a low gloss patina and iron staining. There are areas of use wear (battering) on much of the surface around the "equator" of the speroid with a few areas on the "poles" where the object was held in use. These retain off-white nodule cortex. This object is probably prehistoric, but such stones have also been found in later contexts (e.g. Roman) and it is difficult to be certain of the date. Date: Prehistoric (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) - c 8300 - 800 BC Dime…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
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Record ID: DOR-A3B4E2
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of banded quartzitie pebble which has a smoothed surface and a well defined angled facet where it has probably been used in a polishing or abrading process. One end of a rounded, water-worn pebble of banded grey and pink quartzite. Date: Neolithic to Post Medieval (probably) - 4000 BC to AD 1700 Dimensions: 56.5 mm x 35.5 mm x 36.5 mm Weight: 10.3 g
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2021
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Record ID: DOR-D8DA9A
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable hammerstone or grinding tool. A large, tapering, flint core of light grey-brown flint with heavy off-white mottled patination and frequent iron staining. A multi-platform core which has subsequently been re-used at its widest, rounded end, probably to crush or grind another material. This has resulted in an area of use chatter like that seen on round hammerstones. Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 to 1600 BC Dimensions: 95.2 mm x 47.9 mm x 44.1 mm Weight: 223 g
Created on: Monday 6th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2021
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Record ID: DOR-1FBAF8
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick plano-convex, sub-triangular battered flint nodule, probably used as a hammerstone. The flint is opaque and mottled light to mid-grey and beige with a low-gloss blue-grey patina and heavy areas of reddish brown ferrous staining. There are patchy areas of chalky nodular cortex around the circumference equal to areas of irregular and incoherent flaking and battering consistent with use as a hammerstone. Date: Neolithic 4000 BC - 2350 BC Dimensions: 98.2 mm x 67.6 mm x 47.3 mm Weight: 344 g
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Saturday 22nd June 2019
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Record ID: DOR-04E557
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hammerstone made on a polyhedral core of Portland chert. One area of worn 'chatter' survives and a considerable part of the remaining surface has been heat crazed and spalled; a few incomplete flake scars from the original core survive. The chert is opaque and dark grey in colour with a low gloss patina. Date: Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3300 to 1600 BC. Dimensions: 47.8mm x 45.8mm x 38mm. Weight: 102.3g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
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Record ID: DOR-C0C361
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible hammerstone made on part of a tapering 'horn' shaped nodule of mottled grey flint. The bulbous asymmetric end of the piece may originally have been utilized as a core. A series of scars from plunging flakes are visible, struck from one face. The exposed end has subsequently been battered, abrading its edges. The most likely cause of this is use as a hammerstone or similar 'pounder'. The tapering end retains weathered chalky cortex. Date: Late Neolithic to early bronze age (probably) Dimensions: 119mm x 61mm 51.2mm Weight: 399g
Created on: Monday 28th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2016
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Record ID: DOR-6B57B5
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint hammerstone. A rounded piece of mid grey flint with heavy off-white patina and iron staining.. There are areas of use wear (battering) on much of the surface with a few small unused areas on the sides where the object was held in use. This object is probably prehistoric, but such stones have also been found in later contexts (e.g. Roman) and it is difficult to be certain of the date. Date: Prehistoric (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) - c 8300 - 800 BC Dimensions: 79 mm x 72 mm Weight: 403 g
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2012
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Record ID: DOR-CD4355
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A suboval core of mid grey brown flint with grey mottles and a mid gloss patina. The remnant of a multi directional core with several wide flake removals. One end and a strip along the length of the stone is chattered and chipped through use as a hammerstone Date: Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2500 - 1500 BC Dimensions: 52.5 mm x 35 mm x 33.5 mm Weight: 74.5 g
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2011
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Record ID: DOR-6D2077
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large chert hammerstone. A rounded piece of a dark grey Portland limestone chert nodule. There are areas of thick , off-white nodule cortex remaining and an area of loght grey patination, much of which has been removed by flaking as result of use of the hammerstone. There is a girth band of use wear (battering) with unused areas on the sides where the object was held in use. This object is probably prehistoric, but such stones have also been found in later contexts (e.g. Roman) and it is diffucult to be certain of the date. Date: Prehistoric (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) - c 8300 - 8…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
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Record ID: DOR-6D4E98
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large chert hammerstone. An angular piece of a mid grey Portland limestone chert nodule with two rounded ends. There are areas of use wear (battering) on either end with unused areas on the sides where the object was held in use. This object is probably prehistoric, but such stones have also been found in later contexts (e.g. Roman) and it is diffucult to be certain of the date. Date: Prehistoric (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) - c 8300 - 800 BC Dimensions: 93.5 mm x 72 mm x 56.5 mm Weight: 453 g
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
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