Record ID: HESH-69A2A6
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Encrusted iron adze of probable post medieval date (1550-1750). The adze is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with a splayed blade at one end and rounded butt at the other. The butt is finished with a cylindrical projection which may have acted as a hammer. From this projecting butt the axe expands forming a relatively straight sided blade which flares at the base forming a crescent shaped blade. In profile the adze tapers from a thickened butt to the cutting edge. The adze is pierced just below the butt with the shaft hole which is broadly sub-rectangular in shape and regular in width. …
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2008
Last updated: Sunday 24th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ellesmere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A20C17
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an iron blade possibly from a adze, although it is unusually flat, or perhaps a mattock. The tool is 143.47mm long, 97.85mm wide and 11.77mm thick. The sub-rectangular blade has a convex cutting edge which does not project to the sides. The opposite end is broken off, so the orientation of any socket is not known. The side near the break curve inwards. The uniformity of the metal suggests a post medieval date.
Created on: Wednesday 24th September 2008
Last updated: Friday 8th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-FF4101
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone adze, triangular in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and oval in section. The adze is smaller and narrower than local examples, and the angle of the asymmetrical blade is steeper than on indigenous stone adzes. The adze is composed of a uniform fine-grained dark green rock with some patches of dark red mottling. Examination under a binocular microscope (x20-40) shows the rock to be slightly translucent with little textural detail or internal structure. Such textural detail as can be seen is suggestive a fine-grained volcanic ash. It is likely that the rock is not local to the sou…
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: DUR-DFD949
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Published
A polished adze head, of unusual type and unknown origin. The polished adze or axe head is made of a dark grey-green, dense, probably volcanic, stone which has been ground and polished. The stone is possibly a type of greenstone called argillite, soft enough to shape yet durable in use.The object has an unusual profile, being quadrangular in shape with a wide, tapered flat form. There is a single curved bevel, the edge of which remains complete and sharp. The head tapers towards the 'pecked' butt which shows some damage, revealing the rough texture of the original stone. The obj…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-623625
Object type: AEROPLANE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable fragment of an airplane. The fragment is made from an aluminium alloy. In plan it is sub-rectangular with broken lower and side edges. The upper edge is complete and has an ‘n’ shaped profile with a slightly lip on the exterior edge. In profile the fragment is curved, and originally the diameter would have been c. 80mm on the internal surface. The surface has active corrosion. The fragment measures 53.51mm long, 52.35mm wide and weighs 22.3g. The alloy used and the coarseness of the broken edges suggests that the fragment of a World War II aircraft. It may be a compon…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-EE33C3
Object type: AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy object of Post-Medieval to modern date. It has a rectangular bar that has been bent at its centre as a result of post-depositional damage. At either end of the bar are spoon-shaped terminals set at 180 degrees to one another and at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the plane of the bar. These are oval shaped in plan with very smooth outer surfaces and uneven, unfinished concave inner surfaces. One of the terminals is smaller than the other and measures 33.58mm in length and 18.51mm in width, the larger example measuring 38.95mm in length and 24.13mm in width. …
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stowmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM6268
Object type: AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast scoop, has had the inside of the bowl drilled and smoothed, whilst the outside has been left rough and unpolished. A small part of the neck remains where incised screw thread decoration is visible. The main part of the handle has snapped off. A scoop from a 19th-century seed drill. This record was created before the Portable Antiquities Scheme began using the Central Database. We are aware that this record may fall below our usual standards of recording, and we are working to rectify this.
Created on: Tuesday 27th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-2FB8E2
Object type: ALEMBIC
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Medieval - post medieval, 15th-16th century, ceramic alembic AD.1400-1600. The fragment consists of a part of the wall of the alembic with a thick verticle rib, pierced by a single hole on the outside. The exterior of the vessel has three grooves running around the circumference, the verticle rib projects beyond the rim of the vessel to form a foot and continues up the wall to the break. The hole has been pushed through the rib approx 48mm from the base of the foot and there are traces of the tool marks in the form or scoring around the hole. The purpose of this hol…
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
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Record ID: WMID-97F765
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joined cast lead sub-spheres joined by a sprue. Length: 32.7mm; maximum diameter: 14.1mm; sprue diameter: 9.4mm; mass: 33.6g. Both of the sub-spheres have a broadly straight sided edge running around them. The object has a matt, light brown surface. Probably post-medieval musket shot dating from c. 17th or 18th centuries. Other lead shot joined by sprues has been recorded on the database (see SUSS-93F5C5 and DENO-F3DB9).
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5FDE98
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joined cast lead spheres joined by a sub-circular sectioned sprue. Length: 28.7mm; maximum diameter: 12.0mm; sprue diameter: 3.6mm; mass: 17.7g. The object has a matt, light brown pitted surface. Probably post-medieval musket shot dating from c. 17th or 18th centuries. Other lead shot joined by sprues has been recorded on the database (see WMID-97F765, SUSS-93F5C5 and DENO-F3DB9).
Created on: Friday 3rd April 2009
Last updated: Monday 10th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fisherwick CP', grid reference and parish protected.