Record ID: KENT-586A23
Object type: ABACUS
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy
Created on: Friday 12th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: NLM2660
Object type: ABACUS
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 1st October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-43E6D6
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic impliment: Mesolithic tranchet adze, dating 9000 to 6000 BC. There have been suggestions that tranchet adze continued in use into the Neolithic, however there is no direct evidence for this. The adze is an elongated oval in plan with a lenticular cross section with pointed edges. In profile the adze is sub-rectangular with elongated pointed blade end. The blade end shows no evidence of wear, however the blade end of adze could be restruck to form a new cutting edge. The rough shape of the adze was created using a hard hammer to remove the outer cortex of a flint nodule (however …
Created on: Monday 4th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-582C88
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic Tranchet adze or Thames pick, of light grey and orange flint.
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-180DE7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Early Neolithic greenstone adze blade, of sub-oval profile and lenticular section. The tool is polished on all surfaces, but has a number of damaged areas close to its edges, and is incomplete (the butt has broken away). Neither the blade edge nor the broken edge is still sharp. This adze fragment weighs 560g and measures 170mm in length, 101mm in width and 23.7mm in thickness. The complete tool would have been of considerable size. The stone is a blue-green colour and is likely to be a particular form of tuff known as 'greenstone', which has its source in Great Lang…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-A66C20
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint adze dating 9000 to 6000 BC. The rough shape of the adze was created using a hard hammer to remove the outer cortex of a flint nodule, however large amount of natural cortex survives on one edge of the adze. This roughout was then further shaped using covering removals. The edge without cortex, and the blade end have semi-abrupt removals to further shape the adze. The surface of the adze is covered in removals with scars and some impact ripples present where flakes were removed from the surface. The adze is sub-rectangular in plan with a lenticular cross section with p…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: YORYM-B0F363
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Mesolithic to Neolithic flaked flint adze. Worked on both faces. Has one flat long edge, tapering away across width to sharp long edge (roughly triangluar in section). 109mm long, 46mm tapering to 24mm wide, 28mm tapering to 16mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-623F42
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flint adze, plano-convex section with coarse flaking over the dorsal suface. Little sign of retouch. Large areas of cortex present on dorsal face. Poor quality flint, opaque, uneven grey colour with off-white areas.
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-AF3B47
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flaked flint rough-out for an axe or adze. Pale grey flint with a heavy off-white patina and iron staining. This has been made on a large flake, the striking platform of which is still evident at the proximal end. The rough-out is asymmetrical and trapezoidal in outline, flaring towards the distal end. It also thickens distally. On the ventral face the cutting edge is quite steep, but the dorsal face is flatter resulting in a shallower drop to the cutting edge. The faces and edges of the rough-out are extensively flaked. There is some recent edge damage along the cutting edge. The s…
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Rushton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-644AA4
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint adze or pick, probably of Mesolithic date. The adze is knapped from flint with some cortex remaining at the butt end, covering c.20% of one side. It is sub-triangular in plan with straight tapering sides and a rounded blade and butt. In cross section it is also sub-triangular flattening to a pointed oval at the blade. One face is flat at the butt end where it is covered in cortex it has a convex curve through the remainder. The other has a pronounced central ridge which is particularly acute at the butt end then flattens at the blade. It has been shaped with large, shallow flakes…
Created on: Friday 3rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-851F72
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably an unfinished Mesolithic adze. It is rectangular in plan with a sub-triangular cross section. Two of the sides are almost completely covered in natural brown cortex, which cointains some fossilised remains in the form of short, curved lines which are possibly from a sponge. The third side has had flakes removed from the surface in several different directions, many of which have left hinged or overshot terminations. The flint is dark grey-black in colour, with small patches of light grey. It is 113.97mm long, 40.85mm wide, 33.02mm thick and it weighs 228.77 grams.
Created on: Friday 17th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-30D0E1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete metagabbroic greenstone adze, which has been petrologically analysed by Dr. Roger Taylor as part of the Clodgy Moor Project. More than half of the adze remains, including the blade end, and the recorder cannot be sure from the broken butt end how long the adze originally was, but it is tapering towards the butt end. The adze is tear-shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile and in section. The distinct curvature of one side of the blade, while the other side is flat, suggests that the implement was used as an adze. There are several fresh breaks to the adze which have pr…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-30EF13
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gabbroic greenstone cushion macehead or shafthole adze, sub-oval in plan, tapering slightly towards the surviving end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. About half of the adze remains, including the blade end, and half of the shaft hole. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The implement has been worked from a beach cobble and would have been collected from the coast. It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill. The shaft is 25 m…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2012
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LEIC-D23993
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post Medieval iron adze, 70mm long, 30mm wide and 25mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 199grams. The object consists of a rectangular head which has a hole through its centre. It has a blade which emerges from one side and tapers outwards, thining to form a wide blade. The object is difficult to date, but its good preservation could suggest its towards the more recent date.
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Last updated: Saturday 12th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CFC2B1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic adze blade, measuring 110 x 54 x 17mm. It is made on a long sub-triangular flake with blunting retouch along both lateral edges and some shallow retouch across the broad blade edge. A few scalar scars on the ventral face of the blade edge may be from use. It is patinated a dusty grey colour. It probably dates from 4000- 2300 BC.
Created on: Monday 6th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-FDE370
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flaked adze of Mesolithic date. Dating from between 8300 to 4900 BC. Adze of this type are difficult to date more closely as they were portable objects carried away from settlements, and so are rarely found in association with dateable artefacts. The flint is white with some light brown discolration suggesting it has been in close proximity to a gravel quarry. The edges are still relatively clean and sharp. Sub-oval in plan and sub-triangular in section. One face is convex, withile the opposite has two angled faces.
Created on: Monday 7th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-4D97B2
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Mesolithic flint flaked axe/adze/pick fragment, blade end. About 20% cortex - along one narrow edge and half of one surface away from the working edge. Five flake scars on the cortexed surface; at least eleven flake scars on the other surface - no tranchet flake scar. Damage along the edges at the break - probably later damage. A fault has produced a break in one edge. Mottled light-dark grey flint, sandy orange-brown cortex. Length 45mm, width 57mm, thickness 20.8mm, weight Alternatively this may be a core, but it is difficult to see how the sharp 'blade' end coul…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C62D81
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead miniature adze of a probable Roman date. The adze is sub-triangular in plan and the cutting edge is slightly curved and has been damaged in antiquity. The opposite end is blunt and flat. The circular perforation is slightly off centre. Most of the object is coated in a light grey patina with light brown patches. Length: 20mm, thickness: 10mm, weight: 5mm.
Created on: Friday 25th March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-F2B395
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Middle Bronze Age Palstave Adze. The cutting edge is on the vertical and is heavily abraded and corroded. In plan it is a slender elongated triangle which is slightly swollen along the centre of the lateral edges. The butt is also heavily abraded and corroded. The butt portion has a rectangular cell with an open end at the butt on the upper and lower face, thereby forming a 'H' shaped section. In profile the adze is a sub asymmetrical lozenge, with the butt tapering to a blunt point, and the blade portion of the adze having slightly concave sides and expanding in w…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2011
Last updated: Friday 8th April 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-CE8605
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mezolithic knapped flint adze. The adze is sub-rectangular in plan being narrower at the butt end before a gentle increase in width to the blade end. It has an almost lozenge shaped cross section, which becomes sub-oval towards the blade end. The change in cross section is due to the removal of two transverse flakes on the latteral edge of the adze, which created the cutting edge. The cutting edge is damaged, with chips along its entire length, making it very irregular. The entire surface of the adze is covered in removals, with scaring and some impact ripples where the flakes were r…
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Birch CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-083FD6
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian iron adze 8th/12th century AD part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. The length is 166mm, width of blade 52.3mm, hammer head is 27.2mm wide and 19.6mm length. The eye may have part of the original wedge remaining and was originally 12mm wide, elongated with a square end. The metal is slightly splayed in the area of the hammerhead, adze is curving, the width of adze in the area of eye is 25.3mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-087192
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian adze 8th/12th century AD part of an extensive collection from a known settlement. The length is 174.5mm, width of blade 96.2mm, length of socket 45.2mm, width of socket 55.9mm, the eye is tear shaped with a width of 30.5mm and a length of 36.7mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEA GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-046FF7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint adze dating from circa 8000-3500BC. The object is triangular in section and has roughly parallel sides. The cutting end is rounded and the proximal end is flat. A biface with some cortex remaining on the dorsal surface. Length 84.25mm, width 42.48mm, thickness 24.48mm, weight 108.1g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 10th August 2010
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Record ID: SUSS-5203D3
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Mesolithic or Neolithic knapped flint adze head. The adze is sub-rectangular in plan, with an almost triangular cross section which becomes more angular towards the butt. It has parallel sides, a rounded butt and straight blade. The blade is partly formed by a large tranchet flake which may be damage. The surface of the adze is covered in removals, with scars and some impact ripples present where flakes were removed from the surface; there may also be some more recent damage. The adze is 118.6mm long, 43mm wide and 26.7mm thick.
Created on: Friday 13th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-58D753
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone or epidiorite adze, tear-shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile and section. The distinct curvature of one side of the blade, while the other side is flat, suggests that the implement was used as an adze, for woodworking, rather than an axe. The greenstone is thermally metamorphosed from an aureole of Lands End granite, and has been used as it was formed rather than pecked and ground into shape, apart from the blade end which has been worked. The butt end has a granite vein running through it which stands proud of the greenstone which has recrystalised on eit…
Created on: Wednesday 25th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-C70827
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint lithic implement: adze dating 8,300 - 4,500BC. This adze is a pointed oval in shape with a rounded distal end tapering to a blunt point at the butt/proximal end. There is a ridge running slightly off-centre down the middle of the dorsal surface. There is one small area of cortex remaining on the dorsal surface near the butt. There is a notch on the butt which is an original characteristic of the flint. The flint is mottled mid-pale grey and there is some modern damage and crushing. Dimensions: length: 124.17mm; width: 51.45mm; thickness: 35.41mm. Ide…
Created on: Friday 24th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-4AC434
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint core tool of Mesolithic date: a 'Thames pick' (given the findspot), more specifically a probable tranchet adze. Some possible cortex appears to have been left at a facet at the butt end; the cortex has otherwise been removed from the nodule in its entirety through hammer flaking. The tool has an asymmetrical biconvex cross section. The butt end is reasonably straight, with an unusual hinged fracture on the lower surface. The upper surface has a high central longitudinal ridge, bevelled to each side, and a steep, 'tranchet' removal at the blade end. The lower s…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Twickenham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6C3824
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown flint or chert. Adze. Knapped flint or chert adze formed by hard hammer working. The object is of ovate section with particularly large flakes removed at its mid point to facilitate hafting. A carefully angled cutting edge has been pressure flaked to sharpen or maintain it. Patinated overall; the underlying colour of the stone is only revealed where small recent chips have intruded at the butt end and at two points on the edge. Suggested date: Later Mesolithic, 6,500-3500 BC. Length: 128mm, Width: 48mm, Thickness: 36mm, Weight: circa 230gms.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-275044
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially worked prehistoric flint tool, possibly dating to the later Neolithic period (c. 2700-2351 BC). This tool is similar to 'Acheulian' handaxes of the Lower Palaeolithic, in that it is bifacially worked and roughly piriform in plan; however, its finely worked sub-oval cutting edge and elongated form, coupled with its asymmetrically bi-convex cross-section suggests a Neolithic date. Similar to adzes from the Neolithic period, this tool has one 'humped' or arched face with a flatter, albeit worked, opposite face. The tool's distal end has been modified, possibly for hafting, w…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-32EBB3
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy adze of uncertain date. It is subrectangular in section and in plan and tapered in profile. The end tapers towards a bevelled edge and curves slightly downwards. There is a large oval perforation in the centre . From the perforation, the sides expand towards working edge. There is an old break, which runs at a 45 degree angle from the side of the adze near the upper part of the perforation towards the working edge. It is in fair condition, with a light green patina. It measures 59.22 mm L x 23.58 mm W x 7.75 mm TH x 15.98 mm DIA (of perforation) a…
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-295A75
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic (9000-6000BC) knapped flint adze. The adze is an elongated oval in plan with a lenticular cross section with pointed edges. In profile the adze is sub-trapezoid with an elongated pointed blade end, and the upper surface is concave. The blade is slightly damaged and worn. The rough shape of the adze was created using a hard hammer to remove the outer cortex of a flint nodule, however a small amount of natural cortex survives on the upper surface. This roughout was then further shaped using covering removals. The surface of the adze is covered in removals with scars and some i…
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steeple CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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: LVPL-0E5426
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
A polished flint Duggleby Adze of Neolithic date. The object has convex cutting edge and a rounded narrower end. Both ends of the adze have been made into a blade edge. The sides taper inwards from the narrowed end before flaring outwards again towards the wider cutting edge forming slightly concave or 'waisted' sides. The adez has been made from an orangey-brown (almost toffee) flint which has been polished all over to give it the smooth surface. There are some white inclusion in the flint, perhaps fossils or minerals. The object has an assymetrical cross-section typical of a Dugg…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandbach', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-F92266
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic adze or chisel. This tool has roughly parallel sides with a narrowed butt end. The cutting edge is flatter and more narrow than the rest of the body. A core tool, this artefact shows roughed-out reduction along the bifacial plane and some finishing retouch along the bilateral edges. The adze or chisel is lenticular in section and retains a small percentage of cortex on the dorsal surfaces. Some recortication may be developing. This adze or chisel measures 152.43mm in length, 35.57mm in width and is 29.83mm thick. It weighs 201.7gms.
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binfield Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-024454
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greenstone (epidiorite) cushion macehead or shafthole adze, sub-oval in plan, tapering slightly towards the surviving end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. About half of the adze remains, including the blade end, and half of the shaft hole. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The implement has been worked from a beach cobble and would have been collected from the coast. It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill.…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Last updated: Saturday 12th March 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-5F7481
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint adze or axe of Mesolithic date. Some cortex has been left at the butt end and extends up the centre of the lower surface of the tool, just over a third of the length. The upper surface has a high central ridge, bevelled to each side, and a steep, 'tranchet' removal at the blade end. The lower surface has a shallower central ridge, bevelled to each side, with longer, far more shallow, removals at the blade end. The sides are slightly wavy and battered but the removals are generally fairly crisp. The flint is a mottled light-grey colour with some darker and s…
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-98FF03
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mezolithic knapped flint adze. The adze is sub-rectangular in plan with an almost triangular cross section, changing to a more lenticular cross section towards the blade end. The blade end is slightly damaged. The rough shape of the adze was created using a hard hammer to remove the outer cortex of a flint nodule. This roughout was then further shaped using covering removals. Further flakes were removed to narrow the adze and to create the cutting edge. The surface of the adze is covered in removals with scars and some impact ripples present where flakes were removed from the surface. …
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: ESS-35F9E7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint Mesolithic adze. The axe is small (98mm long and 44mm wide). It is 21mm thick and weights 97.4g. It has parallel sides, a rounded distal end and flat proximal end. There is bifacial working. The dorsal surface retains some cortex. The two medial edges and the distal end have been retouched to form a cutting edge. It has a slightly curved, sub-triangular cross. The flint is dark grey with an orange/brown patination.
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-1D5996
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint lithic implement: adze (8300-4500BC). This adze has been made from grey brown flint with no cortex remaining. The flint has a thick patina. Flake removal scars cover all surfaces and there is some damage with lumps missing from one side and one end as well as some edge damage. Dimensions: length: 166.88mm; width: 55.65mm; thickness: 36.30mm; weight: 385.83g.
Created on: Thursday 30th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-FBF6E4
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tranchet-sharpened flint tool, possibly an adze of Late Meolithic to Neolithic date. The tool, which is oval in plan and triangular in cross section, has been formed by large flake removals from all sides, with a cutting edge at one end which has been sharpened on one side by a tranchet flake. The other end (the butt) is rounded, with about 20% cortex remaining and sharp edges softened by hammering. There is some later hackled damage in some areas. It is formed on mid-pale grey flint and is 77.8mm long, 37.8mm wide and 21.8mm thick; it weighs 81 grams.
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-FC2427
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small flint adze, probably formed from a large flake. The tool has a rounded blade, straight sides and a rounded, narrow, butt. It is sub-triangular in section, having one peaked and one slightly convex side. The shape has been worked from all sides, with a patch of cortex remaining in the centre of one side, covering c.5%. There are some areas of finer invasive shallow retouch on both sides near the blade, and the sides have been blunted. Measurements: 83.3mm long, 32.1mm wide, 18.9mm thick, 48 grams. It is formed of pale grey flint and is possibly Neolithic in date.
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-536696
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint adze dating from the Mesolithic period. See page 28 in Susan Palmer's Mesolithic cultures of Britain (1977) for a similar example. The square end is the cutting end. It has a length of 142.5mm, width 46.3mm, thickness 31.8mm and a weight of 207g.
Created on: Thursday 19th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT551
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Adze, socket not tapered as on modern examples.
Created on: Thursday 10th September 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT NEWINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM5629
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large worked flint adze, fully patinated.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE WELTON LE MARSH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM5632
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint adze, knapped and partly polished.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE WELTON LE MARSH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF199
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large iron adze; tapering hole through haft-end to secure wooden handle (accompanied by several small fragments of mineralised wood); long tapering blade worn at tip.
Created on: Thursday 16th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BATTISFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6869
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flint adze, relatively crude, with roughly plano-convex cross-section. Made from poor quality flint (in places cherty) with a blotchy pale and medium brown colour. Cortex survives on the convex face and unknapped flint survives in the centre of the flatter side. The blade edges (either end could function as a blade) are radially flaked and relatively straight. The form of the adze is similar to some Mesolithic tranchet adzes (although it lacks a tranchet edge); though the crudeness may suggest that it is a later (Neolithic) roughout for an axe or adze.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-FF4673
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern iron adze with maker's mark (18th century). The adze has a curved profile with a central rectangular, expanded socket for the haft. The blade expands from 34.5mm at the hafting socket to 54.5mm at the bevelled cutting edge. At the opposite end the adze thickens and the cross-section changes from rectangular to square at the butt. On the underside of the blade just before the hafting socket is a stamped maker's mark of the capital letter S beneath a pheon (arrowhead-shape). The iron is in good condition with no corrosion. Dimensions: length: 271mm; width: 5405mm;…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
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Record ID: WILT-DBCAF4
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Bronze Age Palstave Adze with a damaged butt. It measures 132.6mm in length with a cutting edge 32.5mm wide. The surface is pitted. The cutting edge is chamfered and worn on a slant. Around this edge and the sides of he palstave much of the golden brown patina has been lost. Weighs 176.92g. The shelf is deep on either side (7.5 and 8.3mm) and the hafting end c. on third the length of the adze. Brendan O'Connor comments: 'This is a type known to Evans (Ancient bronze implements, p 85, figs 70-1). One of these is illustrated by Rowlands, The production and distributi…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2006
Last updated: Friday 11th March 2011
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Record ID: SWYOR-FE73F2
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint adze. The adze has one convex worked side with the other side being flatter (but also worked). The tool is oval shaped in plan (and semi-circular in section) with the working end widening slightly. The other narrower end of the adze would have been hafted into a wooden handle and it would have functioned as a heavy-duty tool for cutting trees and woodworking. The adze weighs 159.95g and measures 118.5mm in length, 46mm in width and 27mm in thickness.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'York', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A74F63
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy adze, of middle to late Bronze Age date.
Created on: Friday 28th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM-D6CE64
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint adze. The flint is of brown colour with a creamy coloured patination. The adze tapers slightly from the angled cutting edge to the rounded butt end. One face is flat and heavily worked. The other face is more convex and is less worked than the other face. Some cortex remains on the convex face. The length of the adze is 91.7mm, the width of the cutting edge is 41.9mm, the width of the butt is 37.9mm, the thickness is 27.4mm and the weight is 121.88g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2005
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby Le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-2F26B7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early Neolithic polished stone tool – either an adze or axehead. The tool has been ground so that the areas of surface still surviving are smooth. There are quite large areas of damage on the tool; the blade edge is completely missing making the original size of the tool difficult to interpret. The tool weighs 146.77g and measures 83.95mm in length, 43.71mm in width and 26.87mm in thickness.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-37B866
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint bifacially worked adze, 150mm long, 41mm wide and 27mm thick.
Created on: Friday 5th August 2005
Last updated: Saturday 5th March 2011
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Record ID: YORYMB1274
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Polished stone adze.
Created on: Saturday 15th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYMB524
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Banded flint, red-grey-yellow colour, completely opaque, some soil water (ferrous) stainig, retouch and conchoidal fracture- esp pronounced on one side. It is apparently unfinished - very crude, especially the butt end.
Created on: Friday 24th March 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-A77BE8
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flint adze with tranchet edge, hit slightly to one side and retouched. It is worked all over and convex on both sides. The flint is very pale and creamy white in colour with some iron coloured staining. One of the convex sides is slightly flatter, and this side also has a smooth area (maybe coincidental) towards the tranchet edge.
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingbourne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT-03CBE8
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Flint adze or axehead, knapped from light grey flint. Some traces of cortex survive on the lower surface, which has an off-centre ridge running lengthwise.
Created on: Monday 29th December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-8BD908
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete flint Mesolithic adze, measuring 145mm in length, 49mm in maximum width and 33mm in thickness. This adze has been transversely sharpened. It has a relatively flat underside and a centrally ridged back on its topside. The flint is pale to medium off white/grey in colour. There is a very similar adze from Little Dunham, Norfolk.
Created on: Wednesday 5th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tostock', 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
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Record ID: LON-088217
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint adze dating 9,000 - 4,000BC. There is extensive flake removal on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces. This adze has been worked so that it tapers from the broad, rounded distal end (width: 41.72mm) to the rounded butt (width: 22.27mm). The flake removals on the dorsal surface has created a ridge down the length of the adze along the midline. There is some later damage on the butt and both dorsal and ventral surfaces. The flint is dark grey, and mottled. Dimensions: length: 99.57mm; width: 41.72mm; thickness: 30.80mm; weight: 134.84g. Identification and illu…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-C0EC45
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stone adze, tear-drop shaped in plan and section and triangular in profile, with angled sides that taper towards the butt end and widen towards the blade end. About half of the original tool survives, the sightly flanged blade end, while the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex suggesting that the tool was used as an adze for carving and smoothing …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
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Record ID: WILT-EE83DB
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A polished stone miniature adze of Neolithic to Bronze Age date (c. 3500 - 2200 BC). The adze measures 52.04mm in length, 13.03mm in width at the butt end, widening to 23.77mm at the blade end, is 10.92mm thick at the butt end, widening to 15.03mm thick in the body, before tapering to 1.33mm at the blade end. It weighs 27.30g. The adze is thick butted with an asymmetric profile. The butt is squared off and has been flattened. One face has been ground and polished flat with the blade end sharply facetted to create the edge. The opposite face is convex with facetted mesal sides and a…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: KENT-7B7B49
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint adze of Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic date c.10,000-3501 BC. This implement is roughly rounded triangular in plan and asymetric crested (triangular) in cross-section. Its side view it is roughly pointed oval. In plan, the butt end is much narrower than the cutting edge. It has been knapped overall. The flint is med grey at the blade end fading to light grey along the adze and has off-white and creamy mottling along its length, some of which is cortex forming. The cutting edge is realtively fine, with minimal damage. The edge has been created using parralel retouch stri…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E23509
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Triangular-sectioned Neolithic part ground and polished adze of patinated mottled orange, grey and brown flint with only the very tip of the cutting edge ground to shape with two small recent chips, one to the tip of the cutting edge and the other to one side of this edge. This is the first flint adze to be recorded from this parish. A fine example. 159 x 48 x 19mm. c.4000 - c.2350 BC.
Created on: Monday 27th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2016
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Record ID: FAKL-ADD3FF
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic flint adze of 'Hassocks adze' type (Butler 2005, 103, Fig. 42.4). The adze was made from a flint nodule, its surfaces are now obscured by white recortication. An area of original cortex survives on one side and the flat face bears a cavity containing quartz crystals. Heavy flaking was carried out from the flat face producing a keeled section. Flaking has produced a narrowing around the mid point of the adze which is a feature of these implements. One end is pointed, the other, damaged in antiquity, was bifacially worked to produce an edge. Length 195mm, Width 59, Thickness …
Created on: Friday 12th June 2015
Last updated: Saturday 13th June 2015
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Record ID: FAKL-B2E038
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic adze made from a flint nodule, cortex present on one one face, the other surfaces are bear light recortication covering an opaque, grey flint. . The general section is D shaped with one flat face which bears a heavier recortication and may, in part, be natural. Coarse flaking, struck from this face, covers the sides of the object and, at one end, is a rounded point, The other end of the object retains its original cortex. The central section of the adze is narrowed, presenting a slight waist. No parallels have been found for this object although it could be compared to the …
Created on: Friday 12th June 2015
Last updated: Saturday 13th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-004F87
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Neolithic flint adze patinated white and pale grey with spotty iron stains to both faces. Only the cutting end remains. The transverse break has been reworked by bifacial hard hammer retouch. 66 x 49 x 18.5 mm.
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
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Record ID: SUSS-62F577
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worked down possible adze or axe of Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date. The piece demonstrates intense flaking on both faces with the use of hard and soft hammers visible. Heavily probably dorsal arrises are visible on both faces, while the cutting edge is slightly asymetrical in profile. A small amount of cortex is visible at the butt end of the axe. The blade has been reworked with direct removals that extend into the main body of the axe, while some trimming and re-shaping is visible down the sides of the piece. Measurements; Maximum length (mm): 65.85 Maximum wi…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
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Record ID: NMS-71449D
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic part polished adze of chert or poor quality flint now heavily patinated mottled white and light brown with some iron stained scrapes across the surface. The cutting edge appears to have been resharpened by direct percussion and left unpolished. 137 x 59 x 39 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2016
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Record ID: IOW-9DA86C
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Mesolithic to Early Neolithic flint adze or axehead (c. 10000 BC-c. 3500 BC). This implement is roughly pointed oval in plan and sub-lozenge shaped in cross-section. In side view it is roughly pointed oval. It has been knapped overall except where there is a small area of buff cortex at the butt end. In plan, the butt end is slightly narrower than the cutting edge. The cutting edge is damaged as there are a number of small chips. It varies from black to light grey and has off-white and creamy mottling. Height: 75.9mm; width: 32.6mm; thickness: 23.7mm. Weight: 64.74g.
Created on: Saturday 29th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-4480CB
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint adze of Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic date c.10,000-3501 BC. This implement is roughly pointed oval in plan and sub-lozenge shaped in cross-section. In side view it is roughly pointed oval. In plan, the butt end is slightly narrower than the cutting edge. It has been knapped overall. The flint is It light grey and has off-white and creamy mottling along with some iron staining and concretion. The cutting edge is damaged as there are a number of small chips. The blade end is rectangular but there is no evidence of a transverse flake having been removed. Rather it ha…
Created on: Friday 19th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd December 2014
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Record ID: FAKL-353FAC
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Flaked flint adze made from a piece of a nodule, small area of cortex present, opaque, mixed grey flint with light recortincation. Flaked all over to produce a D shaped secton, rounded cutting edge on flat face of D. Length 93mm, Width 57mm, Thickness 32mm, Mass 227.0g
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2015
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Record ID: SF-5DD878
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A patinated or stained struck flint adze of Mesolithic date. It is triangular in section with a slightly curved profile and has all over bifacial flake removal. The blade end is rectangular in form with transverse flake removal and limited retouch. The entire object has a stained or patinated mottled grey/brown surface and measures 155mm in length, 47.44mm in width, 26.19mm in thickness and 233.20g in weight. The form of this object suggests it is probably an adze rather than a tranchet axe, and of Mesolithic date, c.10,000-4000 BC.
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garboldisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-032171
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy adze dating from the Roman period to the post medieval period. The object is sub-rectangular in plan with a square perforation. The object tapers to a point after the perforation. The object is thickest around the hole taper to a blade at the wider end. There is a slight bulge in plan around the hole. Part of a similar object has been recorded on the PAS database, KENT-32EBB3.
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th September 2013
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Record ID: NMS-1CC105
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint adze. Longitudinal curve partially formed by a large scar from natural shatter flake pre-knapping, some partial polishing towards the curved blade, straight sides tapering twards the rounded butt. Differential patination with one face appearing dark grey / black and the other paler, cloudy grey. Neolithic, perhaps late Neolithic. Length 128mm. Maximum width 53mm. Maximum thickness 18mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th May 2014
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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
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Record ID: IOW-83889C
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Mesolithic to Early Neolithic flint adze or axehead (c. 10000 BC-c. 3500 BC). This implement is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. One face has been entirely knapped and the other face has about 70% cortex. The flaking at the cutting edge end is long and short, scaled and semi-abrupt. The cortex is grey and buff and the flaked areas have a grey patina with creamy mottling and some iron staining. A modern chip near the butt end on the cortex reveals that the flint is dark grey. Length: 157.0mm; width: 60.9mm; thickness: 37.5mm. Weig…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-AB58F1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken blade end of an adze of gabbroic greenstone, sub-square in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. About half of the original tool survives, as it is missing its longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex, with a defined yet scooped edge, suggesting that the tool was used as an adze for carving and smoothing the wood rather than an axe for chopping. The ven…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: LANCUM-64B7A7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy palstave adze dating from the Middle Bronze Age, that is c. 1500-1150BC. The body of the adze is long and slender and shaped like a palstave with its cutting edge twisted at 90 degrees. It is complete and in good condition with only some patches of active corrosion. The blade and butt end are intact and most of the original dark olive green patina survives. A similar example has been recorded from Warwickshire (WAW-F2B395) and Brokenborough, Wiltshire (WILT-DBCAF4) and on this example Brendan O'Connor commented: "This is a type known to John Evans (Ancient Bronz…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GISBURN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-CE3E94
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic impliment: Mesolithic adze, dating 9000 to 6000 BC. There have been suggestions that tranchet adze continued in use into the Neolithic, however there is no direct evidence for this. The adze is sub-rectangular in plan with a lenticular cross section with pointed edges. In profile the adze is sub-triangular with elongated pointed blade end. The blade end is slightly damaged. The rough shape of the adze was created using a hard hammer to remove the outer cortex of a flint nodule. This roughout was then further shaped using covering removals. Further flakes were removed to narrow t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: BM-4F8D78
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron object, possibly the blade of an adze or adze hammer dating to the Roman period. Rectangular-sectioned object, broken at both ends. One end narrow and robust, presumably the butt of the blade which would have attached to the shaft hole casing. Flaring and flattening towards the other, presumably the cutting edge. The object measures 135.9mm in length, a maximum of 49.4mm in width, a maximum of 19.1mm in thickness and weighs 176.9 grams.
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2016
Last updated: Monday 2nd September 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-BD78A1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint flaked adze dating from 4000 - 2200 BC. The adze (or asymetric axe) is formed on dark grey high quality flint which is not patinated and which has few inclusions. It is sub-recatngular, tapering from a cutting edge of 40.5mm wide, to a rounded butt of 18mm wide. The sides are straight apart from the corners of the cutting edge which taper slightly. In cross section, the axe has a pointed oval asymetrical shape, being flatter on one face than the other. It is invasivly worked with covering, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch, with smaller removals from the edges. It is 127.4…
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Record ID: WILT-FEE598
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint pick or adze of Mesolithic date (c. 10,000 - 4000 BC). The implement is lenticular in both profile and cross-section. One face is much flatter than the other. It has been knapped from a series of different angles on one face and retains c. 15% cortex on the same face. The opposite face exhibits limited evidence of flake removal. The flint is a milky mottled light grey in colour with evidence of recortication heavier on one face. The implement measures 114.36mm in length, 51.93mm maximum width, 32.93mm minimum width, 36.74mm maximum thickness, 13.56mm minimum thickness and w…
Created on: Friday 10th July 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
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Record ID: NMS-CFEDAA
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic crude flint adze, made on a thermal fracture flake with part of the natural surace remaining on both faces. Partially polished at the cutting edge on both faces, cutting edge partially damaged. Originally grey flint now patinated mottled grey and white. with spotty iron stainaing. Measuring 143 x 49 x 23mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: SUSS-67EF94
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and partially knapped Mesolithic flint object, probably an adze, but possibly a large core (c. 8300-3500 BC). The remains of the object consist of what looks like the butt-end of an adze and possibly a third to a half of the small adze body; it has been knapped on all sides with long blade removals and smaller removals near to the butt. It is missing a portion of its body and potentially its cutting edge; a tranchet or lateral flake cannot be identified to confirm this object as a tranchet adze, as it would appear on the blade end, now missing. Typical to adzes of this…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Record ID: SF-85FC79
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint adze of the Mesolithic to early Neolithic period, dating to 9500 BC-4000 BC. It is oval in plan and tapers towards one end; it has a roughly lozange-shaped cross-section. The tapered end bears the beige cortex surviving (7%). The dorsal surface has a longitudinal median ridge, which forks close to the flaring end. Both the surfaces have multi-directional negative scars. The edges have traces of further retouches and old breaks. The surfaces have a greyish white patina which covers the mottled grey core. Frequent iron stains cover the surfaces. Cf Butler (2005, p. 1…
Created on: Monday 6th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bay Thorne End', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C40FC7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Adze or axe fragment, only the butt end is extant, broken recently by a transverse bending fracture, bifacially knapped to a sub-lenticular cross section by a hard hammer stone with an akward angle to one lateral edge, and one tiny patch of white cortex just above this. Patinated brown and orange, the fresh break is of mottled grey flint. Mesolithic.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C4436F
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Adze, patinated orange and brown, of sub-trapezoidal to sub-lenticular cross section, bifacially knapped from a thermal (frost) fractured piece of a nodule of flint, the dorsal face retains a small area, towards the middle, of thin, worn cortex, the ventral face has the frost fractured surface running from the butt to the underside of the cutting edge, only the edges have had rather steep flake removals, towards the middle, on one edge, the angle is almost too obtuse (beyond 90 degrees) but a series of flakes have been removed, although they have terminated in a series of hinges. The …
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-2B82CD
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Mesolithic to Neolithic flint adze (c. 9000 BC-c. 3500 BC), The butt is missing due to an old transverse break. This implement is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. It has been bi-facially worked on both faces and has highly invasive removals. In side view it is oblique at the cutting edge. The dorsal surface has a longitudinal median ridge that extends from the butt end to about half way along its length. The cutting edge is curved and on the dorsal face there is minimal retouch which is short, sub-parallel and low angled. A small area of…
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-F2AD74
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Mesolithic flint adze or pick, dating from c. 10,000 to c. 3500 BC. This adze has been made on an elongated flint nodule of a mottled dark grey flint, now patinated white / light grey with evidence of recortification. Being broadly triangular in section this object can be described as a pick as well as an adze. The butt is squared in plan, the side taper gently and evenly towards the tip which is rounded. The adze is worn but is in good condition overall, with an area of post-depositonal damage around the butt.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bix', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-952884
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint adze fragment. A sub-triangular chunk of broad lentoid section with, initially, two broad flakes struck from its dorsal side by hard hammer strike, and with an uneven ventral surface. Covering angled scalar retouch was carried across the dorsal surface, and a few comparable drafts appear on the ventral side. Broken at its broader end, probably recently. Patches of iron staining appear on the worked surfaces. The surface overall is a dull buff tint, possibly a deep patina arising from prolonged exposure to a calcareous environment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC. …
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A41B68
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint adze of probable Mesolithic to early Neolithic date, c. 8000-4000 BC. The adze is of small size, being broadly triangular in plan with a very prominent dorsal arrise running down one face. By contrast the opposing face is much flatter, though displays a large patch of cortex close to the original cutting edge-the butt of the tool also being cortical. Lateral long removals of retouch down the edges of the piece probably reflect a combination of hard and soft hammer work, an attempt at a tranchet removal (unsuccessful) seemingly visible on one face. Manufactured on a pri…
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-9199B5
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early mesolithic flint adze head, 10000-8000 BC. The adze has been made from a knapped flint nodule. There is still significant cortex coverage over the surface of the object. Flakes have been removed to create the cutting edge and to create the tapering profile of the adze head. It is possible that the piece is a roughout for an adze. The flake removals are large and in specific areas of the nodule. There is no retouch on the object. It measures 148.8mm long, 57.8mm at its widest point and 33.2mm at its thickest point. It weighs 356 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: IOW-BAA905
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Mesolithic to Early Neolithic chert adze or axehead (c. 10000 BC-c. 3500 BC). This implement is an elongated oval shape in plan. In side view it is pointed at the butt end and oblique at the cutting edge. The dorsal face is characteristically humped. Flake removal scars cover all surfaces and there is no cortex. Particularly large flakes have been removed on the ventral face at its mid point, possibly to facilitate hafting. The ridge on one side is mildly 'S'-shaped and the other ridge is straighter. The cutting edge appears to have old damage at its apex. The impleme…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
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Record ID: NMS-F4639E
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An attempted Neolithic adze, of off-white and pale grey patinated flint with some spotty iron stains to both faces. It is bifacially knapped with direct hard hammer percussion and is an advanced preform of sub-triangular section with a well defined cutting edge and no tranchet blow. A problem hinge was created by a small coarse patch on the left side of the dorsal face towards the butt, an attempt to remove this by using the hinge as a platform was a little too successful as it not only reomoved most of the hinge (a slight lip remains) but it created a broad outrepasse (over shot) fla…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: CORN-9D3E43
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blade fragment of a metagabbroic greenstone adze, with similarities to Group I type greenstone, semi-circular in plan and section and triangular in profile, with straight sides that widen slightly towards the blade end. About a third of the original tool survives, the blade end, while the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex suggesting that the tool was used …
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BB866F
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Adze, bifacially struck from a water worn cobble of mottled light grey flint now patinated off-white with some small areas of iron staining to both faces. The cobble's original battered surface is unmodified on the tip of the butt, with one side dominated by a thermal (frost) fracture, making this triangular in section to just over half of its length, with flake removals struck from this using the frost fracture as a platform. This then restricts (bifacially) towards the narrow cutting edge, sharpened by a tranchet blow to the dorsal face. All flake removals appear to be semi-hard ham…
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2018
Last updated: Monday 30th March 2020
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Record ID: SF-11D77C
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint adze dating to the Mesolithic period, c. 8000-4000 BC. It is broadly lenticular in plan and plano-convex in section, with a slightly tapered butt, expanded sides, rectilinear cutting edge and flattened underside. Manufactured originally from a large piece of blackish brown flint with some green and yellow mottling, it has been bifacially worked- both faces demonstrate highly invasive removals that have removed practically all of the original flake surfaces, though those on the underside of the adze are thinner, wider and low-angle, suggestive of preferential u…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.