Record ID: LANCUM-3F1C46
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged arrowhead, formed by knapping. It is made of a pale semi- transluscent flint with some inclusions. It is slightly flatter on one side then the other, and the tip of one of the barbs is missing. Having been found near a beach it has been worn so no sharp edge remains, but the shape is consistent. Arrowheads such as these, see also NMGW-24C12C, are classified as Sutton Type B (Green 1980) are commonly associated with the emergence of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain. Dimensions: It is 21mm long and 16mm wide, it weighs 1.53g
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-115358
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age to early Iron Age secondary grey flint debitage retouched to a side scraper. Three phases of working. Initial phase produced the waste flake. The second phase, and first phase of retouch, incorporated acute, scaled, semi invasive reduction of a ridge on the left side of the dorsal face, and short, semi abrupt, sub parallel retouch on the curved right mesal. This phase of retouch has repatinated. At the distal end of this first phase of retouch, a projection, possibly originally a burin, has been reduced with short, abrupt, parallel retouch. Thi…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E9B3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary grey chert debitage, probably Bronze Age. Small area of sub-parallel acute short retouch. Dates from c2350 to c1000 BC. The length is 21mm, width 18mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.77g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E7E9
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age secondary dark grey flint debitage. Scaled semi-abrupt short retouch to form a scraper, and another area of scaled semi-invasive and short abrupt retouch to create a gouge. Dates from c2700 to c1000 BC. The length is 19mm, width 14mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.79g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E623
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to Iron Age dark grey flint tertiary debitage. No retouch, heat effected post working. The thermal shattering may be the result of the more complete piece of stone being used as a 'pot boiler'. These were stones heated on the fire then dropped into liquid to it. The cold fluid often caused the stone to shatter and break. Dates from c10,000 to c400 BC. The length is 20mm, width 16mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.57g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E3C8
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age brown grey flint tertiary debitage, with sub-parallel short acute retouch to both mesals to form cutting edges. Dates from c2700 to c1600 BC. The length is 17mm, width 12mm, thickness 2mm, and the weight is 0.49g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E02D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to early Iron Age heat effected secondary grey flint debitage. There is no retouch on the large piece, but a small area of acutely angled, short, sub-parallel retouch on the smaller piece. There is no post burning working. Dates from c10,000 to c400 BC. 1 - The length is 20mm, width 15mm, thickness 13mm, and the weight is 3.70g. 2 - The length is 18mm, width 12mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 0.69g. Total weight 4.39g
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31D61D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to Bronze Age secondary grey flint debitage, possibly from core preparation. Random acute short retouch to one edge, probably for use as a scraper. Dates from c10,000 to c800 BC. The length is 25mm, width 15mm, thickness 9mm, and the weight is 3.13g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31D0B2
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Neolithic to mid Bronze Age debitage, a secondary flake of grey flint with no retouch. Probably dates from c4000 to c1000 BC. The length is 28mm, width 14mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 2.04g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Sunday 18th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31CE5B
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Iron Age grey flint secondary debitage with sub-parallel abrupt to semi-acute retouch to scrapers on the mesals. Dates from c2700 to c400 BC. The length is 22mm, width 21mm, thickness 7mm, and the weight is 3.09g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E5B75
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to early Iron Age grey flint tertiary debitage. Sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch to possible side scraper on half of one side with a possible burin at the end. Dates from c2350 to c400 BC. The length is 43mm, width 11mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 3.16g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E5995
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age to early Iron Age grey flint secondary debitage with sub-parallel abrupt to semi-acute retouch to scrapers on two sides. Dates from c2350 to c400 BC. The length is 18mm, width 16mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 1.20g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E569A
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Mesolithic to late Bronze Age secondary grey flint debitage, or possible multidirectional core. There is a very small area of retouch, possibly to prepare the piece for another removal. Dates from c7000 to c800 BC. The length is 24mm, width 16mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 2.75g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C72D27
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint D shaped 'thumbnail' scraper. The scraper is sub square in plan and fabricated on a tertiary flake of pale grey flint with white inclusions, There is no noticeable patination.There are three principle phases of working. In the first it has been roughed out with a series of invasive removals to the dorsal. The second phase consisted of shaping the distal edge with a series of scaled semi abrupt removals. Looking down on the dorsal from the proximal end, the third phase consists of three areas of retouch. The left mesal has minute (all less then …
Created on: Sunday 19th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 6th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Colne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B8ABA9
Object type: BURIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age chert burin. It has been formed on a secondary piece of black 'Marles' chert, probably a worked out core. The retained limestone cortex on the proximal end exhibits quite a high degree of wear, and there is wear gloss on most of the chert. There is sub-parallel, semi-short, abrupt retouch to the shorter of the tool's mesals. This is probably to make the toll more ergonomic but would also have created a small but functional side scraper. The shoulder of this mesal has been reduced with a series of removals at its distal end. The longer mesal has short, …
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B82E7C
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age secondary black 'Marles' chert bi-polar core. Overall it is a sub-rectangular in plan and section, sub-triangular in profile. There are removal scars on most of its surface, but the whole of one side has retained cortex. The flake scars are mostly quite broad and show evidence of removal with a hard hammer. Dates to between c2700 and c1000 BC. Length 27mm, width 18mm, thickness 15mm, mass 8.62g Found a few miles from the similar LANCUM-2F7F05
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4A3237
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, similar to a Green Low Type (the barbs are longer than the tang). The flint is a translucent olive brown. The arrowhead is triangular in plan and planoconvex in section and a pointed sub oval in profile. The arrowhead has been formed on a tertiary flake. There are multiple phases of retouch. The initial phase relates to the forming of the artefact and is invasive, scaled and semi abrupt. The second phase is long, sub-parallel, and semi-abrupt. The third phase is short, random, and semi-abrupt. The point has been lost in antiquity. Da…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Saturday 30th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gisburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2F7F05
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age secondary black 'Marles' chert bi-polar core. Overall it is a sub-triangular in plan and profile, sub-rectangular in section. There are removal scars on most of its surface, with only a small amount of retained cortex. The flake scars are mostly quite broad and show evidence of removal with a hard hammer. There are some areas near the wider end that appear to have been prepared a new striking platforms. Dates to between c2700 and c1000 BC. The length is 39mm, width 33mm, thickness 24mm, and the weight 40.03g. Found a few miles from the simila…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Whalley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-27EF60
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint coarse retouched flake probably dating to the later Bronze Age. The object is triangular in cross-section with the remains of cortex on one side of the dorsal face. At the proximal end is a large triangular striking platform while a small (possibly accidental) triangular platform is at the distal end. Along the long edge the retouch is short, sub-parallel and at a low angle. A small amount of retouch is also on the opposite edge where the cortex has been removed. It is also short, sub-parallel and low angled. The flint has a dark grey cortex and a toffee brown to light cream m…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burscough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DA9AF5
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age olive/grey flint plano convex knife, knapped on a secondary flake. Due to the way in which it has been knapped, the ventral is convex & the dorsal flat with a roughly central patch of retained cortex. There is extensive retouch to both faces. On the dorsal face the first phase is invasive, scaled, and low angle. The second dorsal phase is long, sub parallel, and low angle. There is also subsequent retouch to keep the edge sharp but this is more variable in character. The first phase of retouch on the ventral face is covering, scaled, stepped, para…
Created on: Sunday 15th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laneshaw Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.