Record ID: LANCUM-A32091
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age grey brown flint thumbnail scraper fabricated from a tertiary flake. The scraping edge has been formed with semi-invasive, sub-parallel, semi-abrubt removals along the curved edge. A small gouge or burin has also been fashioned on one of the 'corners' of the flake. Dates to between c2700 to c1600 BC. Length 30mm, width 22mm, thickness 3.5mm, weight 4.80g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Haslingden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31F4B2
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Mesolithic to mid Bronze Age debitage, tertiary patinated white flint, heat effected post working, no retouch. Dates from c7000 to c1000 BC. The length is 15mm, width 11mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.48g.
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-31F0E6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Mesolithic to early Neolithic tertiary grey flint debitage. Possible retouch to one mesal. Dates from c7000 to c3500 BC. The length is 16mm, width 10mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.43g.
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-31EF00
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to mid Bronze Age tertiary pale grey flint debitage. Small areas of parallel short semi-acute retouch on mesals, possibly for use as side scrapers and/or cutting edges. Dates from c4000 to c1000 BC. The length is 19mm, width 12mm, thickness 4mm, and the weight is 0.68g
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-31EC56
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to late Neolithic red brown flint secondary debitage or blade butt. There is very fine sub-parallel short acute retouch to both mesals. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 13mm, width 11mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.39g.
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-31EAF4
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to Neolithic tertiary grey chert blade. Parallel short acute retouch to the longer mesal, probably to form a cutting edge. Dates from c10,000 to c2350 BC. The length is 32mm, width 15mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 2.00g.
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-31E1DB
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to late Neolithic grey flint tertiary blade fragment with sub-parallel short acute retouch to both mesals forming edges that could be used for cutting or scraping. Second phase of retouch to the distal mesal to form a burin on the corner. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 17mm, width 12mm, thickness 3.5mm, and the weight is 0.77g.
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-31DDB7
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Neolithic to early Bronze Age tertiary patinated white flint debitage. Probably a fragment from the proximal end of a discarded blade. There is occasional random short acute retouch to both mesal edges, but nothing that suggests the fragment was reused as a tool. Dates from c4000 to c1600 BC. The length is 15mm, width 11mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 0.81g.
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-31DBA0
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic tertiary pale grey flint blade. The distal end has snapped off. Sub-parallel acute to semi-actue short retouch to both mesals. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 26mm, width 18mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 2.05g.
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-31D9EC
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic patinated tertiary grey flint end scraper. The scraper is on the distal end and there are two stages of sub-parallel abrupt retouch, short on semi-invasive, and some damage from crushing. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 21mm, width 13mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.42g.
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-C72415
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to mid Neolithic side scraper on a secondary flake of dark grey chert. Short, parallel to sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch to both mesals. The distal end has been shaped with an invasive intial removal terminating in a hinged fracture. It has then had very short sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch. There has been a reduction to the dorsal ridge. Cortex retained at proximal end, probably to aid grip. Dates to between c4000 and c2700 BC. Length 24mm, width 15mm, thickness 7mm, mass 2.86g
Created on: Sunday 19th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Colne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B8B345
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to mid Neolithic side scraper on a tertiary flake of grey chert. On one mesal two notches have been removed from near the distal end then the whole ventral edge has received short, parallel to sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch The resultant edge probably served three purposes, as a serrated blade, a notched scraper, and as a side scraper if the proximal end was favoured. The other mesal is 7.5mm thick. On its dorsal edge it has short, abrupt, sub-parallel retouch to the whole edge. The ventral edge has a series of scaled semi-invasive removals overlaid with short, abrupt, sub-pa…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2F3921
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint flake end scraper of probable Neolithic to Bronze Age date (c. 3500 - 800 BC). The flint is dark brown in colour with slight light brown mottles. It is broadly trapezoidal in shape, with one straight and one curved long edge. The longer short edge displays short, semi-abrupt, scaled retouch on the dorsal face. The ripples of percussion on the ventral face curve across the length of the object. The object is 22.50mm in length, 14.02mm in width and 4.53mm in thickness. It weighs 1.70g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-0775C1
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly damaged polished stone axehead of Neolithic date (c. 4000 - 2350 BC). The axehead is formed from grey stone, probably Langdale tuff. The surface of the object has been weathered and is rough and pitted, to a greater degree on one side than the other. The more weathered side is also darker in colour. There is some brown surface accretion on both sides. The object is broadly rectangular in shape with a lentoid section. It widens slightly at one end and narrows into an unsymmetrically curved cutting edge. The other (butt) end is badly chipped and damaged. The object is 153.5mm i…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-596416
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumb-nail scraper of very late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date c.2400-2100 BC. The flint is sub-rounded save for the striking platform edge. It has has short scaled abrupt retouch around the entirety of the rounded edges. The ventral face has been heavily rework to flatten the bulb of percussion with long invasive low angled retouch. Almost all the striking appears to be with heavy hammer technology. The scraper is a limid reddish yellow with mottling possibly from being exposed. The length is 27mm, the width is 14mm, thickness 13mm and the weight 3.77g.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-00857A
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leaf-shaped Neolithic flint knife or oval side scraper dating from c. 3000-2100BC. This object appears to have been bifacially flaked suggesting that it is a knife. However, we do not have a side view for this object (only two images were provided by the finder) so we cannot be certain. It looks to have pressure flaking on dorsal side. It was probably formed on tertiary debitage rather than a deliberate stuck core.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-C6CB8B
Object type: BURNT FLINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of heat affected stone and iron pan found near LANCUM-177CC5, possibly a Riley Type 5 late Neolithic scraper, and probably of a similar period. Both pieces have been heat effected and exhibit signs of thermal fracture. One of the stones has orange ochre within the iron pan & this has been rubbed into concavity, possibly for use as a pigment. The stones may have been heated to make use of the ochre, or as the result of some other activity such pot boiling or cooking. The burning probably dates from the late Neolithic, c2500 to c2100 BC. The smaller piece's length is 21m…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 12th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYCOLLER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DA33B1
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Neolithic to mid Bronze Age chert D shaped scraper. It is roughly semi-circular in plan, sub rectangular in profile, and a pointed sub oval in section. The scraper has been formed on a tertiary piece of black 'Marles' chert. The fully invasive primary working has been retouched, short, semi abrupt to abrupt, sub-parallel to random, on most edges. Dates to between c3500 and c1000 BC. The length is 25mm, width 15mm, thickness 8mm, and the weight 4.8g.
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Last updated: Saturday 2nd January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2E67E5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to early Bronze Age worked white quartz or quartzite scraper. Its overall plan is D shaped, with the straight edge being the working edge. Due to the nature of it crystal structure, this material is hard to date from its working. As it bears a similarity to a D shaped scraper, it would be reasonable to assume that its most likely date of manufacture was late Neolithic to early Bronze Age. Dating to between c7000 to c1601 BC, probably to between c2700 and c1601 BC. The length is 10mm, width 10mm, and the thickness 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wycoller', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E7C543
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Light grey flint tool, probably late Neolithic. Striking platform visible. Ventral side is slightly concave with prominent bulb of percussion at proximal end. Multiple flaking to dorsal side to create a curved blade profile with most of dorsal ridge having been removed and micro-touching along full extent of two main edges. Grey colour with slight blackening at proximal end, with some lighter inclusions throughout. Blade is incomplete having been snapped at distal end in antiquity. Length 25mm, Width 15mm, Thickness 4.5 mm. Weight 2g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pendle Hill', grid reference and parish protected.