Record ID: HAMP-3E40A3
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint polished or edge-ground knife dating to the Late Neolithic to very Early Bronze Age. The knife is 52.7mm in length and made from a semi-circular tertiary flake of mid grey flint with lighter grey patches. The surface has a mid-gloss to milky patina. Both faces are covered with removals, with patches of polishing evident along both tapering sides to strengthen the cutting edge. One side demonstrates considerable wear from use and has become noticeably blunt. The proximal end of the flake has a ragged break, the distal end appears to have been retouched into a blunte…
Created on: Friday 28th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-6D0FC2
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint polished or edge-ground knife. The knife us sub-angular with rounded corners. Made on a tertiary flake of mid grey flint with lighter grey patches and dark grey bands. The surface has a mid-gloss to milky patina. The original flake was very large and thin.The ventral face has widely space waves of percussion and there are several flake scars visible on the dorsal face, one ending in a hinge fracture. There is some flaking at the proximal end where an attempt has been made to thin the remnant of the bulb of percussion. The proximal edge is not polished. There is also some paral…
Created on: Monday 29th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NLM-8A7583
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-green flint possible polished knife fragment. A flake with a curving cutting edge [top] with broad flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a hollowed and hackled ventral surface. Multiple shallow concave fractures appear on both sides, and whether these were contemporary with or later than the use of the putative tool is uncertain; similar features are common amongst unworked or naturally battered flints from the vicinity. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700-2350 BC. Length: 41.5mm, Width: 38.7mm, Thickness: 10.7mm, Weight: 9.20gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NLM-F035B6
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-buff flint possible polished knife fragment. A small thin triangular chip with a polished patch on its dorsal surface and an almost flat ventral surface. This is a chip from a highly polished object; either a knife or an axe head; the use of flint may commend the former over the latter. The polished surface has itself been disrupted by the loss of a further thin flake from the dorsal side, whether before or after its detachment from the putative knife is uncertain. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700-2350 BC. Length: 21.7mm, Width: 14.9mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 1.33gms
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9B6B02
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint, polished knife fragment. A chip from the cutting edge of a polished flint knife, though even in its fragmentary form this may have continued in use. A broad flake has been struck from the dorsal side, while the ventral surface is nearly flat. A curving cutting edge was produced and maintained by grinding of a narrow [c.4mm wide] zone around the edge. The object is truncated by two curved breaks, of which one at least may be recent. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700-2350 BC. Length: 23.2mm, Width: 26.5mm, Thickness: 5.5mm, Weight: 2.89gms
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: NLM-3B7C8B
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint polished knife fragment. A large flake from a bifacially polished possibly discoid or lunate knife, bearing a high polish covering one side, and the cutting edge and adjacent polished surface on the other, now disrupted by broad flakes which were apparently removed by unidirectional hard hammer working. The fine finish has been achieved despite the mediocre quality of a variegated flint, probably collected from the Wolds of Lincolnshire or East Yorkshire. The possibly deliberate damage to one side of the knife is an unusual feature. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9FF8F4
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey flint polished knife fragment. A chip from the side of a polished flint knife of thin lentoid section, with part of one straight cutting edge remaining and with a flat ?ventral surface. An edge which runs approximately at right angles to the polished edge is chamfered, probably by angled hard-hammer strike during an episode of reuse of this chip. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700-2350 BC. Length: 22mm, Width: 24.1mm, Thickness: 4.3mm, Weight: 3.11gms
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-9DA8CF
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic (Late) polished flint knife fragment, 37mm in length, 22mm in width and 8mm thick with a weight of 5.67grams. The fragment is triangular in form but represents part of a 'cushion shaped' knife. Its has a rectangular in cross section and it has a brownish patina. It has a clear straight break forming one edge, the second has a straight and rounded edge and is highly polished on both sides. The third edge has some shallow, invasive scaled re-touch along its edge.
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: NLM-8BD7EE
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint polished knife fragment. One end of a polished knife of lentoid section . What began as the ventral side of the flake retains faint ripples, but the dorsal side is ground or polished to a smooth curving surface. One end is formed by a hinge fracture; the other end is broken, probably in antiquity. Suggested date: Late Neolithic, 2700-2350 BC. Length: 23.4mm, Width: 30.5mm, Thickness: 6.5mm, Weight: 6.77gms.
Created on: Friday 17th July 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-05A321
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Neolithic polished edge knife, recently broken but originally D shaped. Mid-grey opaque flint with light recortication. Bifacially flaked to produce a pointed oval section.A small area of original cortex survives on one face. Edge polishing is limited to 2-6mm around the edges. Late Neolithic date. Length 64mm, Width 77mm, Thickness 15mm, Mass 62.7g
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 16th June 2015
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Record ID: FAKL-5DF647
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Flint polished edge knife, discoidal with bifacial retouch (invasive, scaled, low angle). Polish present on both faces along c.60mm of edge. Pale grey, opaque flint with some veining (it is not of the best quality). One small patch of cortex. Notch does not appear to have been created by retouch. Length 69mm, Width 62mm, Thickness 18mm, Mass 72.77g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 27th May 2015
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Record ID: WILT-F0236A
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint Late Neolithic polished edge-ground knife dating to the period c. 2700 - 2351 BC. The knife measures 65.45mm in length, 51.97mm maximum width, 22.03mm minimum width, is 12.99mm thick and weighs 56.79g. The knife is trapeziodal in shape and has been struck off a tertiary flake, exhbiting no remaining cortex. The dorsal face exhibits four parallel negative flake scars running down the centre and exhibits long scaled semi-abrupt retouch along the proximal end. The mesal edges have both been ground smooth along their length on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces. The distal en…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Record ID: SOMDOR-0B5273
Object type: POLISHED KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Polished flint discoidal knife produced from a large flake of grey-brown flint. Both faces are worked and polished to remove the edges of flaking scars. At the middle of each side is an area of high polish with no traces of scars. There are the remains of flaking scars concentrated towards the edges. The edge is bevelled and polished apart from one area which has had smaller flakes removed to blunt it.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2004
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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