Record ID: LEIC-DB0C0D
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Modern gunflint. Made of flint, dark grey opaque patina. Tertiary, has been heated.
Created on: Saturday 2nd November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-86AE34
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Small possible gunflint on mid-grey, opaque, patinated flint.
Created on: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Last updated: Sunday 19th January 2020
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Record ID: HESH-7F98F4
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small rectangular gun flint probably from a small handgun / firearm / pocket pistol of post medieval - modern date (1700-1850 AD). The flint is sub-square in plan and trapezoidal in profile and section. The flint is a light mottled grey colour. The dorsal face has been knapped / worked on all four sides; this work consists of creating sloping edges to give it a trapezoidal side view. The long edges are also retourched / trimmed with neat parallel sided removals. The ventral face retains the waves emanating outwards from the point of impact, but the bulb of percussion has been remove…
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
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Record ID: OXON-B18F30
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern (c. AD 1800-2010) flint scraper made on an ancient flake of uncertain prehistoric date. The scraper is broadly circular in plan with part of the platform and the buld retained. There is some re-cortication, through which the modern retouching is cut. The modern retouching is at the proximal tip and around the distal edge. It is possible that a farm worker (for example) may have created and used this scraper in Victorian (or even more modern) times. The Victorians also used to practice flint knapping; this example is of the incorrect shape to be a gun flint so was probably for…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
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Record ID: BERK-44BA61
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Miscellaneous retouch on a modern flake.
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field No. OM6', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-325B98
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two possible strike-a-lights, one on a prehistoric core, shown modern reuse of a prehistoric object. Found near a railway cutting so could be associated with navvies there c1840s possibly. Metal stains on core fragment.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
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Record ID: SF-607BB1
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A snapped flint flake, probably for the manufacture of gunflint, struck from a dark brown flint. It is triangular in form, trapezoidal in section with central platform and some slight edge retouch, snapped towards the bulb of percussion. It measures 43.97mm in length, 31.79mm in width, 8.04mm in thickness and 7.28g in weight. It is of probable 19th to 20th century AD date.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-604495
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint long flake, probably for the manufacture of gunflint, struck from a mottled grey flint. It is sub-rectangular in form, trapezoidal in section with long central platform, bulb of percussion at one end and some slight edge retouch. It measures 86.35mm in length, 27.33mm in width, 5.77mm in thickness and 14.42g in weight. It is of probable 19th to 20th century AD date.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-B55A11
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small rectangular gun flint probably from a small handgun / firearm / pocket pistol of post medieval - modern date (1700-1850 AD). The flint is sub-square in plan and trapezoidal in profile and section. The flint is a light mottled grey colour. The dorsal face has been knapped / worked on all four sides; this work consists of creating sloping edges to give it a trapezoidal side view. The ventral face retains the waves emanating outwards from the point of impact, but the bulb of percussion has been removed. The flint is unabraded suggesting it hasn't been used. The mottled grey natu…
Created on: Friday 16th December 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: SWYOR-95AB74
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic implement; a flint annular ring which probably dates from the 19th or early 20th century. It is made of opaque tan flint and has scalar retouch. It weighs about 2g. This object has been identified by Hazel Martingel and is probably a rare survivor of the work of flint knappers during the early part of the 20th century. They were originally called 'fakes' but later 'replicas'. Bill Basham was one such flint knapper who made a flint necklace of rings very like this one. He also made a Flint alphabet! At the time, gunflints were made in Brandon in Suffolk and some of the skill…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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