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: 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: SUR-3E3483
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic discoidal scraper struck from a tertiary flake of grey flint, 47.3mm in length. The distal edge terminates in a hinge fracture and the sides and proximal end have been worked into scraping edges with short, semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch. There is a notch at the proximal end next to the striking platform, which most likely derives from post depositional damage.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3E05C1
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Neolithic scraper struck from a tertiary flake of grey flint. The striking platform and bulbar scar are both pronounced and there is a deep concavity in the dorsal surface, all suggesting hard hammered removal. The distal end has a working edge defined by short, abrupt and semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-02FCD3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete worked flint flaked axe of Neolithic date (c.4,000-2,350BC) Description: The object is broadly oval in plan and in cross section. It has been produced from a tertiary flake of pale grey flint; there are dark grey patches on both sides at the distal end. The ventral face has invasive, scaled, abrupt retouch and a possible striking platform at the proximal end although there is possible later damage in this area; the dorsal face has a slightly concave curve and short, scaled, abrupt retouch along both mesal. This po…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th 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: SUR-C98456
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly cuboid flint core of suspected early Neolithic date, struck from a dark grey flint. There are three, possibly four striking platforms, arranged orthogonally and with platform edge abrasion demonstrating preparation. There are two patched of buff coloured cortex retained on the sides.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C95938
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint piercer or multi tool made from a fragment of a nodule of mottled grey flint, 61.2mm in length and of Bronze Age date. The tool is triangular with a long tip which has been worked into a point using abrupt scaled retouch along one side. The proximal end has a patch of long abrupt parallel retouch which has removed the cortex and created a scraping edge, suggesting multiple functions for the tool.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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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
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Record ID: SUR-C8982D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small discoidal scraper of Bronze Age date made from a re-utilised secondary cortical waste flake. The distal end has been refined into a working edge using long low angle scaled retouch. The dorsal surface retains 30% of its buff coloured cortex.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C86183
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small discoidal scraper of Neolithic or Bronze Age date made from a secondary flake of grey flint which has recorticated to a bluish white in patches. The distal end has been refined into a working edge using long, semi abrupt parallel retouch. The dorsal surface retains 40% of its buff coloured cortex.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C84A23
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small side scraper of Bronze Age date made from a re-utilised secondary cortical waste flake. The distal portion of one long side has been refined into a working edge using short, abrupt scaled retouch. The dorsal surface retains 60% of its buff coloured cortex.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C830BF
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A teardrop-shaped Neolithic end-scraper struck from a tertiary flake of pale brown flint with a trapezoidal cross section. The distal end expands to a straight edge, refined by abrupt retouch. The proximal end tapers to a small triangular striking platform.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C81E82
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small scraper of Bronze Age date struck from a tertiary waste flake of banded grey flint. The distal end has long semi-abrupt sub parallel retouch and the proximal edge has short abrupt retouch to defining working edges; this has been done through earlier surface recortication suggesting that this object is a re-used waste flake of a much earlier date, possibly originally Mesolithic or Neolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C7F296
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small ovate scraper of later Neolithic to Bronze Age date struck from a secondary flake of grey flint. The distal end has long, low angle sub parallel retouch to define a working edge. The proximal end is covered in cortex has no evidence of a prepared striking platform, the flake having been removed directly from the nodule.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 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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