Record ID: LANCUM-944C16
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of flint debitage, very difficult to date. The fragment is very worn and probably some kind of waste flake that was chipped off the core and discarded. Since flint was in use until the early modern period in this area, it is very difficult to date it without context. However, flint does natually appear on the west coast of Britain and thus, the fragment probably came off a core that was brought here from the east.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-602305
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small platform gun-flint, probably from a pocket pistol dating between 1600-1800AD. The flint is rectangular in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and trapezoidal in section and triangular in profile. A flint core would have been quartered and knapped with metal punches to produce suitably broad rectangular flakes which would then have been dressed and segmented into square chunks. The flint has bimarginal worked edges, and worked distal and proximal ends. Apart from the edges, the ventral face is smooth and flat. The dorsal face is chamfered on both sides and at both ends, havi…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 14th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-104311
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval tertiary mid grey square gunflint with metal residue on the lower striking edge. From a flintlock firearm, probably a musket, possibly a rifle. Stuart to Victorian in date (c1650 to c1850 AD). Length 21mm, width 20mm, thickness 6.5mm, and mass 3.9g
Created on: Sunday 17th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 1st September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laneshaw Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.