Record ID: DOR-E033B8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead. A flaked axehead. Made on a nodule of pale grey-brown flint, now patinated to matt off-white and with iron staining along the flake ridges. Flaked on both faces from the edges, butt and cutting edge. All the cortex has been removed. The side edges are largely straight. It has a wide, slightly convex, cutting edge formed by flake removals from the edge into the body of the axehead. The axe tapers to the butt and has a lentoid cross section. There is some slight damage to the butt. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 to 2350 BC Dimensions: 118 mm x 60 mm x 27&n…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-47A5EB
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint flake. Incomplete. The flake is of mid-grey flint with off-white patches and has a glossy patina. There is a wide striking platform at the proximal end and a low bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The distal end has been snapped off. There are multiple, multi-directional flaking scars on the dorsal face, some possibly to thin the flake to create an arrowhead or other implement Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age c. 4000 - 1600 BC Length: 23.41 mm Width: 20.37 mm Thickness: 7.29 mm Weight: 3.14 g
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 30th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-477C56
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade flake. A tertiary flake of mottled grey and white flint with an off-white matt patina. The distal end only which appears snapped off. There are two parallel logitudinal flaking scars on the dorsal face creating a triangular cross section. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 - 2350 BC Dimansions 29 mm x 17 mm x 6 mm Weight: 2.37 g  
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 30th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8207C9
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint arrowhead, Made on a secondary flake of light to dark brown flint with patches of nodule cortex on one face. The arrowhead is oval with a slight point at the tip.  Both faces have invasive irregular pressure-flaked retouch. Date: Early to Middle Neolithic - c. 4000 BC to 2700 BC Dimensions: 24  mm x 19 mm x 7 mm Weight: 2.79 g
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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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: DOR-8AAB0D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, sub-circular thumbnail scraper. Made on a tertiary flake of grey and white mottled flint with a milky, low gloss patina. It has a small striking platform at the proximal end. A low bulb of percussion with a large bulbar scar and faint waves of percussion on the ventral face. The dorsal face has several flake removal scars. It has been neatly shaped into a sub-circualr working edge with invasive, semi-abrupt retouch around most of the margin apart from the striking platform. Dimensions: 25.0 mm x 22.5 mm…
Created on: Saturday 20th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C78EA8
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, leaf arrowhead. A kite-shaped type made on a flake of grey-beige flint with a glossy patina. The arrrowhead has been thinned and shaped with covering, low-angled long flakes extending across both faces.  Date:  Early to Middle Neolithic - c. 4000 BC to 2700 BC Dimensions: 29.89 mm x 17.85 mm x 3.82 mm Weight: 1.76 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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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-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-78A2F2
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead, probably a roughout for polishing. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a partially naturally fractured tabular nodule of mottled, opaque, brown-grey flint with a paler beige patina. There are areas of cortex and sub-cortex on both faces, but substantially less on the naturally fractured face. The worked face has multiple semi-invasive flake removals at the cutting edge and along the sides. The other, naturally fractured face, there is some more haphazard flaking, perhaps aimed at thinning the body and creating a viable striking platform. It appears …
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Saturday 3rd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-7870F4
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead, probably a roughout for polishing. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a tabular nodule of mottled, opaque,  grey flint with a paler grey patina. Vestigial areas of cortex and subcortex remain on both faces , particularly around the edge of the butt. The cutting edge is unfinished and has some post-depositional damage. It was probably squared and was formed by long, invasive, longitudinal flaking. The sides of the axehead taper from the cutting edge to the broad, rounded butt. The flaking along the edges is fairly regular, creating a zig zag.&n…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-783D9E
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead, probably a roughout for polishing. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a tabular nodule of mottled, opaque, pale grey flint with a paler grey patina. Vestigial areas of cortex and subcortex remain on both faces. The cutting edge is unfinished. It is crudely rounded with some short, longitudinal flaking to create the edge. This has been unsuccessful in removing a steeply angled facet on one face which would preclude use of the axehead in it's existing form. The sides of the axehead are tapering from the cutting edge to the thinned, rounded butt. The flakin…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-780748
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead, probably a roughout for polishing. A bifacially flaked axehead made on mottled, opaque light grey flint. No cortex remaining. The surfaces have a blue-white patina and some iron staining on the ridges. The cutting edge is unfinished. It is crudely rounded with cross body flaking to create the edge. The sides of the axehead are tapered from the cutting edge to the thin butt which has been obscured by an oblique post-depositional break. The flaking along the edges is regular creating a zig-zag finish. They have been slightly abraded in manufactur…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-77CAF9
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead, probably a roughout for polishing. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a tabular nodule of mottled, opaque beige flint. Vestigial areas of cortex and subcortex remain on both faces. The cutting edge is unfinished. It is crudely rounded with some longitudinal flaking to create the edge. The sides of the axehead are parallel as they extend from the cutting edge and begin to taper from about halfway along into the narrower, rounded butt which has been thinned on one face by long, oblique flake removals. The flaking along the edges is regular creating a zig-zag finish…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-77881A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A partly polished flint axehead. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a tabular nodule of mottled, opaque grey flint. Vestigial areas of cortex and subcortex remain on both faces and within the flint there are large, irregular areas of banded orange and brown iron precipitation. The cutting edge is unfinished. It is crudely rounded with some longitudinal flaking to create the edge. The sides of the axehead are parallel as they extend from the cutting edge and begin to taper from about halfway along into the narrower, squared butt. The flaking along the edges is regular, creating a zig-z…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-771687
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint blade flake. An elongate flake of light brown-grey opaque flint with sparse mottles. The surface has some light, semi-matt patination. There is an area of thick nodule cortex at the distal end. At the proximal end is a narrow striking platform with a low, diffuse bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The bulb develops into wide, low waves of percussion to the distal end of the ventral face. The dorsal face has two, large, parallel flaking scars from previous blade removals. The flake has a triangular cross section. Date: Neolithic -  4000 - 2350 BC Dimensions:…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-60E3FE
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint end-scraper. Made on a secondary flake of dark grey and red-brown mottled flint. There is an area of abraded nodule cortex on the dorsal face. The dorsal face has a milky blue0white patina. At the proximel end there is a small striking platform with a low, diffuse bulb of percussion on the ventral face There are large waves of percussion running to the distal end. On the dorsal face are several irregular flake removals. The distal end has been worked from the ventral face with small, parallel, semi-invasive retouch. Date: Neolithic to Bronze Age Dimansions: 82 m…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2022
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Record ID: DOR-4AD72C
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large irregular elongate flint blade flake with a triangular cross-section. The flint is mottled grey with a mid-gloss patina covered with a white to off-white re-cortification and red-brown ferrous stains. The dorsal surface retains weathered chalky cortex over most of one side; a single partial long flake scar, possibly from a similarily sized blade flake removal occupies the other side. There is crude dorsal retouch to the cortex margin. Similar flaking at the distal end may be post depositional damage or crude retouch. The ventral side has a smooth bulb of per…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St.Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4A96E0
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thin, oval flint blade flake. The flint has a semi-gloss patina with thin off-white patination with occasional red-brown ferrous stains.The original colour of the flint is uncertain.  The dorsal face has two parallel scars from previous blade flake removals, with a thin sliver of a third to one margin; the other margin retains an area of chalky nodule cortex. The ventral face has a low, diffuse bulb of percussion below a small area of flat striking platform, with slight low ripples developing at the distal end.  Slight post-depositional edge damage is ev…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St.Martin', grid reference and parish protected.