Record ID: SUR-3E541F
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cylindrical bladelet core of early mesolithic date struck from a pale grey flint. The core has two striking platforms, one at either end, with removal scars around half of the circumference. A large fossil sponge cavity has prevented removals on the other side.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-EDBD77
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core produced during the process of blade manufacture.The flint is light grey-brown. It is now largely covered in a heavy off-white patina with small areas of reddish brown ferrous staining, mainly on the flake scar ridges. A single platform core with multiple blade removals around one side. There is some recent damage to the distal and and the platform. Date: Probably Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 7000 - 3000 BC  Dimensions: 41 mm x 27 mm Weight: 29.13 g
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: SOMDOR-55C357
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint bladelet core. Dark brownish grey mottled flint with a pale grey, mid gloss patina. Gravel flint. One face retains a patch of weathered cortex and also shows evidence of earlier breakage in the form of a patch of off-white patination. The core has been worked from two sides, having numerous elongate, blade-like scars on both. Plausibly Mesolithic.
Created on: Monday 13th March 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: DOR-499A83
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible tranchet axe. A small, irregularly flaked flint axe with an apparent failed tranchet sharpening at the cutting edge. Pale grey mottled flint, sometimes very coarse, with heavy off white-grey patina. Very sparse red-brown ferrous staining in places. Both long edges are extensively flaked on one edge and more irregularly flaked on the other, creating an irregular cross section. Both edges are straight but irregular, and there is an irregularly sub-rounded butt. At the opposite end, there is a large, deep flake removal at one edge, but the flake di…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C07E57
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core. A single platform bladelet core of irregular shape, but tending towards conical. Made from a piece of dark grey pebble flint with a glossy, mottled blue-white patina. There is some abraded iron-stained cortex remaining. The rest of the "conical" surface is covered in multiple converging bladelet removal scars. The flakes have been removed from a single platform. The edges of the core show signs of deliberate platform edge abrasion. Date: Mesolithic- Neolithic - c. 10000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 24.91 mm x 32.38 mm x 28.43 mm Weight: 27.98 g
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-02F0B6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint bladelet. A tertiary flake of off-white and beige patchy flint with a speckled off-white patina. A small bulb of percussion and striking platform at the distal end. The dorsal face has several parallel longitudinal flaking scars. The cross section is trapeziodal. There is some edge damage along one side and a break at the distal end. Date: Mesolithic to Neolithic Dimensions. 39.12 mm x 13.82 mm x 3.95 mm Weight: 2.20 g
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-8C8E18
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An axehead made on a partially naturally fractured flake of mid grey secondary flint. A crude tranchet style axehead. The surface has patinated to a very pale grey with areas of iron staining and a mid gloss. It has been crudely and steeply flaked to produce a tapering shape. The wider end has been modified with a single tranchet flake to form a crude cutting edge. There is some thin, abraded cortex on one face of the implement. The lateral margins have been pecked and abraded to blunt the edges of the piece. Date: Probably Mesolithic - c. 8300 to 3500 BC Dimensions: 94 mm x 42 mm…
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 29th July 2021
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Record ID: WILT-68E92D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint core, used for the production of blades and flakes dating to the period c.10,000-4000 BC. It is broadly conical in form. It has a single striking platform as flakes have been removed in the same direction, predominantly from one side. It exhibits five parallel negative flake scars from blade and flake removal. The core retains an area of cortex comprising c.
Created on: Friday 14th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-67133C
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of flint debitage of Mesolithic date (c. 10,000 - 4000 BC) in the form of a bladelet. The blade is struck off a tertiary flake and retains none of its original cortex. The dorsal surface exhibits three negative flake scars from previous blade removal, which give the bladelet a triangular cross section. The ventral surface exhibits a very low bulb of percussion and faint conchoidal ripple marks. There is no evidence of retouch. The bladelet has been recorticated due to long term burial in a chalk environment, and is white-grey in colour. The piece of debitage measures 37.…
Created on: Friday 14th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-69203A
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of flint debitage of early Mesolithic to early Neolithic date (c. 10,000 - 3500 BC) in the form of a blade. The blade is struck off a secondary flake and retains c.
Created on: Friday 14th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-694086
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of flint debitage of early Mesolithic to early Neolithic date (c. 10,000 - 3500 BC) in the form of a flake. The flake is a secondary flake and retains c.
Created on: Friday 14th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-19C816
Object type: MICRODENTICULATE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible microdenticulate, probably of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11,000-2600 BC. Part of a larger assemblage of flint, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-196E52; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-17D77C; WILT-17714B. A bladelet of grey-brown flint with a diffuse bulb of percussion and the distal end lost to a break. Fine retouch has created a possible serated edge along the right edge of the dorsal face, with this partically destroyed by short, semi-abrubt retouch creating a shallow indentation, potentially related to microlith production. Length 28.6mm; Width 1…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-17714B
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of flint cores, probably of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11,000- 2,600 BC, part of a larger assemblage of flint, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-196E52; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-17D77C; WILT-19C816. The group comprises of 5 cores all of dark blue-grey flint with paler inclusions, although the surface of one has become patinated and is now white, with visible iron staining on the ridges between removal facets. All of the cores have surviving cortex covering a portion of their surface, and many also appear to have been subjected to modern damage. In gener…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-17D77C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper of probable Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11000-2600 BC, part of a larger assemblage, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-196E52; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-19C816; WILT-17714B. A utilised core fragment exhibiting retouch along one edge, of a pale grey flint with visible iron staining and pale inclusions. The core fragment has two surviving parallel striking platforms, with removal scars present on the dorsal face only. These are small and sub-parallel, with a number of hinged fractures. The ventral edge exhibits a small area of short, semi-abrupt, sca…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-185746
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three flint scrapers of probable Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11,000-2600 BC, part of a larger assemblage, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-196E52; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-19C816; WILT-17D77C; WILT-17714B. 1. A utilised core fragment exhibiting retouch along one edge, of a blue-grey flint with pale inclusions and cortex surviving on the dorsal face. Relatively broad, flake-like removal scars are present on the dorsal face, whilst two parallel small blade-like removals are present on the ventral, one of which is hinged. The bulb of percussion survives at the proximal end, bu…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-1940B2
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular retouched primary flake, probably of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11000-2600 BC. Part of a larger assemblage of flint, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-196E52; WILT-19C816; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-17D77C; WILT-17714B The flake appears to be incomplete, with a large proportion of the flake lost to a recent break. The flint is brown-grey, patinated white on one face. The proximal end does not survive, and the conchoidal ripples are very diffuse. The flake exhibits little indication of deliberate knapping with the exception of a clear line of short, parallel abrup…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-196E52
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of flint blades, probably of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11000-2600 BC. Part of a larger assemblage of flint, see also: WILT-19B371; WILT-19C816; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-17D77C; WILT-17714B The group comprises of 3 secondary blades with cortex surviving on their dorsal face (13.19g) and 14 tertiary blades (24.23g), all of a grey-brown flint with a cloudy patina or are patinated solidly white, with visible iron staining. All exhibit neat, parallel blade-like knapping, with diffuse bulbs of percussion. The group as a whole is characterised by …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-19B371
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of three retouched flint blades, probably of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 11,000-2600 BC. Part of a larger assemblage of flint, see also: WILT-19C816; WILT-196E52; WILT-1940B2; WILT-19212E; WILT-185746; WILT-17D77C; WILT-17714B. 1. Neat secondary blade of grey-brown flint with a small amount of cortex surviving at the distal end. Blade like removal scars on dorsal face, and very fine retouch along either edge creating a serated edge. Diffuse bulb of percussion. Length 55.3mm; Width 16.1mm; Thickness 4.7mm; Weight 5.16g. 2. Neat tertiary blade of grey-brown f…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
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Record ID: DOR-47DD84
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small multi-platform flint core. Dark grey flint which has a thick white patina and some iron staining. There are numerous small flake removals over almost all surfaces and one area of heavily abraded cortex. Date: Probably Mesolithic to Neolithic - c. 10000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 30.6 mm x 27.5 mm x 25.8 mm Weight: 19.23 g
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
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Record ID: DOR-47BA4D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rounded flint scraper. Made on a flake from a bladelet core. The flint is dark grey and has a thick, white patina.The flake has a very small striking platform and low bulb of percussion with a large bulbar scar. The distal end has been coarsely and steeply retouched through a remnant of abraded cortex. The dorsal face has numerous small, parallel flaking scars from bladelet production on the original core from which this flake was struck. Date: Probably Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 7000 - 3000 BC Dimensions: 33.9 mm x 28.9 mm x 10.9 mm Weight: 11.24 g
Created on: Sunday 24th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
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