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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Record ID: BERK-554E36
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MODERN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undiagnostic struck flint waste flake. The fissures are very fresh in appearance and the suggestion was made that this is a modern piece. The flint is mid-grey to mottled blue-white in colour with 45% cortex remaining. It measures 52.93mm by 56.73mm, is 10.06mm thick and weighs 32.26g.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-8C47C2
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A new nineteenth-century gunflint production site has been discovered. platform gunflints were produced in Brandon and Icklingham, Suffolk, for the British army from the late eighteenth-century. Certainly these were the main production sites between about 1800 and 1850. Other than at these sites there was very little production, due to the specialised nature of gunflint manufacture, so finding a large group of gunflint production waste at Freckenham is important. This new production site was indicated by the discovery of several hundred fragments of manufacturing waste as well as finis…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.