Record ID: NMS-7D16F9
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete end scraper of conventional form; made from a secondary, hard hammer struck flake of glossy black flint with some inclusions, steeply retouched at the distal end to form the semi-circular scraping edge, small patch of sandy coloured thin cortex extant to one lateral side, showing the outside curve of the flint nodule this was struck from. A very useful tool in the initial preparation of fresh hides for tanning, effective in removing the subcutaneous fat from just below the surface of the skin. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E38598
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavy butted Neolithic fully ground and polished flint axe, of white patinated flint with a slightly grey inclusions to one face, all surfaces have both spotty iron stains and streaks from contact with agricultural machinery. The axe has been damaged at some point to the cutting edge, it appears that a large flake has initiated at the cutting edge (presumably in use) and has left a “plunging” flake to one face, the flake has terminated in a large step fracture, this is a common feature to axes that have broken in use, like NMS-7AE7C9, NMS-E21D6A and NMS-4EA515, the last t…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B880B5
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic part-polished, thin butted axe, of lightly patinated light grey flint with a band of darker flint to the butt, the pale buff coloured parts are the slightly coarser inclusions within the flint, one face is streaked with rusty iron scrapes from agricultural machinery, all flake scars appear to be soft hammer struck and nearly all the flakes terminate without hinges to the dorsal face, the ventral face is slightly coarser and exhibits many fine step/hinge terminations to the flakes, this is not unusual with bifaces. The axe itself is in good condition save for some recent damag…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-253946
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete ground and polished axehead, of patinated mottled flint, now a light brown colour with rusty iron streaks to both faces from contact with agricultural machinery, the few remaining visible flake scars now patinated a slightly darker shade of the same. The cutting edge is only slightly curved and asymmetrical in shape, this is likely to be intentional or the result of regrinding this edge over time, only one recent chip to the otherwise still sharp cutting edge, this is much darker than the original surfaces. The lateral edges are sharply faceted and are almost straight fro…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-24F387
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete part-polished axehead, of light and mid-grey flint with the remaining visible flake scars now patinated a sandy orange colour. All flakes are well knapped with only a few light hinge/step terminations as would be expected with an axe, the sub-semicircular cutting edge is entirely polished and without recent damage, still sharp, the high points to the flake scars to the body of the axe are also extensively polished, though not entirely ground smooth, the lateral edges are neatly rounded, not facetted, even the butt has had the edges ground and rounded off. A good example. …
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-10D25F
Object type: DISCOIDAL KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible discoidal knife, of off-white patinated flint, made from a “potlid” or natural thermal fracture with thin, weathered sandy coloured cortex to the dorsal face, the ventral face is a typical thermal fracture. Potlid fractures like this with what appears to be retouch to the thin edges are usually dismissed as being not man-made, however in this instance the more curved edge of the two appears to have had a succession of bifacial flakes driven from it, in one spot the flakes pass through a fossil inclusion, in contrast, the straighter of the two ed…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C43C4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oblique arrowhead made from a tertiary flake of fairly thick cross section, of , of glossy unpatinated grey flint with a paler, coarse inclusion to one face, one lateral edge is left as struck and sharp, the opposing side is bifacially retouched to form a point, the retouch is hard hammer struck rather than pressure flaked, the base is asymmetrically retouched in the same manner, forming a slight barb to the shaper of the two sides. The point is damaged with a long, thin flake running down the edge of the point; this is most likely from being shot and the point encountering a hard surf…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1962E3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tiny leaf-shaped arrowhead, of Green, H. S. (1980) type 4 A, of slightly lighter patinated dark grey flint, the very tip of the base of this point is broken transversely. The dorsal face is very finely and invasively pressure flaked so some of the flake scars overlap at the centre of this face, the ventral face is hardly worked at all, just a few pressure fakes to form the point, this is probably due to the natural curvature of a struck flake; only flakes need to be removed from the curved parts as an arrowhead must be straight in profile to fly in a straight path, the …
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-18DA63
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small biface, likely to have been a chisel, of unpatinated glossy black and dark grey flint with a small patch of whiteish cortex to the centre of one face, the biface has broken transversely in antiquity (the broken face is glossy, not matt as would be expected for a recent break), the missing end would have presumably been the primary cutting edge, the remaining butt narrows to a point. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-18BAAE
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piercer or borer, of glossy unpatinated black and dark grey flint made from secondary hard hammer struck flake, steeply retouched to both lateral edges of the dorsal face to form a sub-triangular point with relatively straight sides. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-18866A
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piercer or borer, of glossy unpatinated black and dark grey flint made from tertiary hard hammer struck flake, though a small amount of whiteish cortex remains to one side of the point, directly above this to the lateral edge is a broad, shallow notch c. 10 mm wide, above that is a smaller notch c. 7 mm wide, a third, even smaller one above this is c. 4.5 mm wide, these appear deliberately knapped on decreasing size along this edge, the opposing lateral edge is irregularly damaged/use worn but seems to have no retouch to begin with, and may have served as a obtuse angled scraper or kni…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9C98C0
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly complete, part polished axe, of orange patinated flint, the grey spots to this face are the coarse inclusions within the flint, the other face is a lighter buff colour, probably due to the chalk or other alkali within the deposits it was lain in, the orange is usually due to exposure to iron oxides in glacial sands, this piece must have been deposited on a chalk/sand change in stratification to acquire the differential patination. The cutting edge is recently damaged on one side, this shows the original colour of the flint to have been mottled light greys. All surfaces are mod…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F582A9
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small flint chisel, of light grey patinated flint, it appears to have been reshaped from a slightly larger completely ground and polished example, a very smooth remnant of the original surface remains to each face, though the rest of the surfaces are knapped to the smaller size, the lateral edges have been reground and the high points of the later flake scars are also smoothed off to some degree. One end is semi-pointed, the other is slightly squared off in plan and may represent the main cutting edge, though this chisel could well have been reversible. A much larger exa…
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F35885
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thin, ovoid scraper made from a large primary flake, all flake scars appear to be soft hammer struck to the dorsal face only, the flakes have not been able to remove the thin, weathered cortex, though a very acute angle has been achieved along the longer side, one end is steeper and more of a conventional scraper form, the opposing end and the “back” are of rougher knapping and finishing, this may suggest that this scraper was hafted, though this is not conclusive. Brown patination, single recent chip to the side of the ventral face reveals the flint was originally mottled …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F32111
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, triangular sectioned blade, soft hammer struck from broken axe; one side of the blade is fully polished and was originally part of the outer surface of the axe, given the curvature of the polished face of this flake it appears it was taken from the curve towards the cutting edge, near to one side of the axe, using the transverse break in the axehead as a platform. Broken axeheads do get used as a core occasionally as they would produce flakes with a polished dorsal surface if they could not be reshaped in to a smaller axe, such as this example: SWYOR-CDDF43. Neolithic, 4,000 to …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F1AEF8
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary hard hammer struck thick flake of sub-triangular cross section, the distal end has been neatly retouched to both faces to form a piercer or borer, the retouch continues towards the proximal end in two steps to one lateral edge, on the other edge the retouch is confined to the lower half of the flake. Patinated a thin brown colour, the recent chips to some of the edges show the original colour of the flint to have been swirls of greys. The dorsal ridge is slightly battered apparently in antiquity, none of the other edges have this wear, it appears the ridge itself was used in …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F16179
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Semi-hard hammer struck, tertiary blade, of sub-trapezoidal cross section. Mid grey flint now patinated a misty white/light grey; recent damage to some parts of the thin edges shows the original colour of the flint to have been darker than the patination. Platform has been abraded or trimmed to the dorsal edge before this blade was struck from the core, the bulb of percussion shows a bulbar scar indicating the hammer used was soft enough to drive long flakes, yet hard enough to produce the bulbar scar. The distal end is finely retouched to the dorsal face to form a straight transverse …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EFC184
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arrowhead rough-out, a tertiary semi-soft hammer struck flake has been modified by invasive pressure flaking to form the general outline of a leaf shaped arrowhead, one side (the ventral face has been flaked to a much greater degree than the dorsal with removals from all edges towards the centre, the middle “blank” area is the original surface of the struck flake that the flakes haven’t been able to reach. The dorsal face has the point and base and one side invasively pressure flaked, mostly following the high points and the thicker areas of the flake as is usual duri…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-23CB83
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a flint nodule with a natural, off-centre hole through, of mottled grey flint with bands of orange/brown, now broken transversely across the hole. Part of the outer cortex appears to have been removed by hard hammer percussion from the centreline when viewed from the side, with flake scars struck from this point being struck centripetally towards the hole and bifacially knapped, some of the flake scars have crushed and not come away cleanly, part of the cortical edge is too steep for flakes to have been removed and remains unmodified apart from a couple of old frost fractur…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E66429
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Asymmetrical laurel leaf point or knife, made from a thick, elongated primary of secondary flake of off-white patinated flint with patches of rusty iron oxide stains to both faces. The ventral face is largely unaltered from its fairly flat bulbar surface, a few flake scars around the periphery are evident, one has been struck quite deeply to one side of the “point”. The dorsal face has the most flake scars; struck towards the centreline with the straighter of the two lateral edges being the more invasive and lower angled, this probably is the main cutting edge, the more cur…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E501A8
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Laurel leaf point made from a semi-bifacially knapped, hard hammer struck flake as a blank, of pale to mid-grey banded flint with a dark “wash” patination, collecting in the recesses. The dorsal face is worked by direct percussion to form a leaf point, the flakes have run a little short to overlap down the middle, leaving the blanks original surface running down the centre, two flake scars to the side have hinged terminations, the ventral face retains part of the underside of the blanks original unmodified flat surface toward the point and to half way down the point, it is …
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D56AEC
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
End scraper of relatively large size, made from a secondary, hard hammer struck flake of mottled grey flint with thin, worn, pale sandy coloured cortex now with some small spotty iron stains towards the proximal end.  The steep retouch is confined to the distal end forming the neat semi-circular scraping edge and the sharper (non-cortical) side, presumably to slightly blunt it. Neolithic, given the size, probably early, 4,000 to 3,000 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-06F811
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary hard hammer struck flake from a single platform core, of unpatinated mottled grey flint with thin, weathered cortex extant to the platform, it took two strikes for the main flake to detach from the core, leaving two bulbs of percussion, one beside the other to the ventral face immediately below the platform. Both lateral edges are irregularly retouched/damaged, difficult to tell for certain if this intentional given it is a beach find, the thin edges are susceptible to damage from the action of the sea and other stones on the beach. Likely to Neolithic to Bronze Age (4,000 to …
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E75BE9
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, invasively and bifacially knapped ovate, of unpatinated mottled dark grey flint with thin, grey cortex with slight rusty iron scrapes extant to the dorsal face only, all flake scars appear to be semi-hard hammer struck. The symmetry is good overall, giving a thinner section, and lower angle edges towards the “point”, this would suggest the point is the main cutting edge. Butler, C. (2005) lists similar objects as Laurel Leaves and suggests use as a small bifacial knife, some with pressure flaked finishes to the surfaces, though this is lacking on this example. Early…
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7E1E8B
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bifacial asymmetrical leaf shaped point, of mid grey mottled flint with slight iron stains to both faces, complete, apart from the very tip of the point appears to be damaged and a small notch to one side just below the missing tip, all other edges are a little roughly knapped, but appear to be in good condition otherwise. The blank for this piece was a wide tertiary flake, probably hard hammer struck, the bulb of percussion on the blank flake was orientated to one side, not the point as is usual, the bulb has been removed by the semi-invasive direct percussion to both faces to shape …
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AF3A25
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hard hammer struck, secondary flake with the distal end steeply retouched to form the convex scraping edge in the conventional manner, a small patch of off-white cortex remains extant to the dorsal face of the distal end, the flint has been burnt in the past, causing and unusual concentric effect in the flint; it is off-white/light grey with radiating mid-grey “lines” to the ventral face, the dorsal face is less pronounced with the colour being more very pale grey. Small hairline radiating cracks also follow the heat damage to both faces. Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, 4,00…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F27DB7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated, thin butted flaked axe: - of mottled dark grey and light grey flint with a slight orange patination to the surfaces, this orange is more pronounced to the sinuous coarse inclusion to the flatter of the two faces. All flake scars are soft hammer struck with feathered flake terminations, all confidently struck. The cutting edge is very slightly rounded, one side of which is recently damaged, another small loss to the mid-point to one edge above the missing cutting edge as well, and another loss to the opposing edge, just below the butt, these show the original colour of the …
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2572B
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large part-polished axe in excellent condition, of orange patinated flint with the coarse inclusions now a pale off-white colour, the very tip of the butt retains the original grey colour of the flint, one face has a couple of light iron scrapes from agricultural machinery. One lateral edge is lightly damaged recently, this interrupts the ground and minimally rounded edges of the axe, the cutting edge is almost a perfect semi-circle in plan and is ground and polished, not quite removing the flake scars from the surface, similar work to smooth off the high points to both faces has been…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C0A67B
Object type: DISCOIDAL KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete discoidal knife, of Clarke. J.G.D. (1932a) Form II with a D-shaped plan, both faces are entirely covered with soft hammer invasive flake scars, overlapping the centre and effectively thinning the piece, all flakes are confidently struck with the flake scars with feather terminations or very slight hinges, to be expected on a thin biface with very flat faces, one scar has failed to remove a previous, slightly larger hinge and remains as a high point to the less convex butt edge. The more convex edge has been carefully ground and polished to form the main function…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-333E2A
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Leaf-shaped arrowhead, of Green, H. S. (1980) type 4B, the closest being L in the examples for this type. It is of Pale grey flint with a lighter coloured inclusion to one side, all the surfaces are patinated a faint buff colour. Both faces are entirely modified by invasive pressure flaking, no surface of the original “blank” for this arrowhead survives but it would appear the bulb of percussion on the flake this was made from was originally orientated towards the point as it is slightly thicker at this end than the base. Early Neolithic, 4,000 to 3,000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4EA515
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than half of a ground and polished Neolithic axe: - of white and pale grey patinated flint with numerous rusty iron scrapes to the surface from contact with agricultural machinery, there is also a patch or orange, red/brown to one face, truncated by the break, this may have been a sub-cortical surface from the flint “blank” this axe was made from. Only the cutting edge has been recovered, broken transversely in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture probably whilst in use. The break is at roughly 90 degrees to the surface of the axe with one side hinging round towards a p…
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-17FC14
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Butt end of a part-polished Neolithic axe, less than half remains, broken transversely in antiquity, most likely while in use. The axe is of light patinated pale grey flint, both lateral edges are rounded off by grinding. It appears that there has been an attempt to reshape the break, several hard hammer strikes have removed short, hinged flakes along the broken (face) edge with an angle amenable to reduction but the other edge of the break has been left as is, one (side) edge has had two gauging flakes struck, both ending in hinges, it seems the axe was discarded at this this point. …
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F0AE5B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
End scraper, steeply retouched on a tertiary hard hammer struck flake, the platform has been facetted before being struck, the “blank” flake is broad and flat with the platform almost at 90 degrees to the ventral face, both lateral edges have been retouched to form a constriction; gently flaring out towards the semi-circular scraping edge of conventional form, this is constriction is very unusual and would suggest that this piece was hafted, similar to the manner of an Inuit scraper: Inuite Eskimo hafted end scraper. (lithiccastinglab.com), the hollows either side allowing for the…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1F7A2A
Object type: CHOPPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bifacially knapped sub-rectangular core or crude handheld chopping tool, of pale grey flint with darker grey flint below the cortex, there are rusty iron scrapes and a few spots to both faces. One edge is thick, blunt and retains the patch of thin, weathered cortex, the shorter sides are different to each other; one is straight and has an edge slightly less than 90 degrees, the other is rounded in plan and has an edge c. 45 degrees. The edge opposing the thick edge is damaged by ancient, hinged flakes but the remaining original undamaged area between the hinges retains an edge c. 40 d…
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-0AD538
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, hard hammer struck flake: - of mottled dark flint, now patinated brown and patchily light grey to the ventral face, the distal end and one lateral side has been steeply retouched to form the scraping edges. Likely to be Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-06B8DA
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken part-polished axe, of thin butted form and narrow form: - of pale patinated mottled grey flint with spotty iron stains to both faces, the butt was broken in antiquity and the ground and polished cutting edge is recently damaged. The cross section is rhombic, with the median ridge offset to one side on both faces, both lateral edges are left as knapped and are not abraded to aid with hafting. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3773EC
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Approximately half of an adze, the butt end is missing, broken transversely, this break is relatively recent and lacks the patination of the knapped surfaces: - of pale patinated, mottled grey flint with spotty iron stains to both faces. The dorsal face is well knapped to form a pronounced median ridge at the centreline, blending neatly into the angle of the cutting edge, the ventral face is much flatter, this gives the sub-triangular/D section and offset (towards the flatter face) cutting edge that defines an adze over an axe (Field et al. (1984) Type E). The edge itself appears to ha…
Created on: Monday 21st February 2022
Last updated: Saturday 14th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CF5412
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Laurel leaf, fully bifacially flaked with invasive soft hammer struck flake scars, confidently struck with the terminations overlapping at, and beyond the centre line, effectively thinning the biface, only a few flakes are slightly hinged, the edges may be further refined by pressure flaking/small direct percussion. The flint is of mottled light grey colour, now patinated slightly white with spotty iron stains to both faces from contact with iron agricultural machinery/other ferrous contaminants. The lateral cutting edges are quite symmetrical, tapering neatly towards both ends, …
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CD9FD5
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, sub-pointed-oval biface, of mid-grey/brown flint now lightly patinated with a further brown tinge, all flake scars appear to be soft hammer struck and invasive, all surfaces have been modified by flake removals, no trace of the “blank” from which this was made remain, though it is likely it stated off as a large struck flake or a small, flat nodule of flint. The flakes are confidently struck with only the occasional slight hinge terminations to the scars. The shape is intentionally slightly asymmetrical, one side of the base has two slight hollows, perhaps to aid haft…
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BD3EF4
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part-polished axe, of mottled grey and black flint, now patinated mid-brown. The axe is bifacially knapped to form a sub-trapezoidal plan with a rounded butt and a thin, lenticular cross section, a hollow of thin, worn cortex remains to the dorsal face to one side, near to the butt, this is surrounded by black flint. The entire axe is bifacially worked with well struck, confident invasive and overlapping flake scars apart from the cortex, the only unmodified surface extant. The broadest point has been ground and polished to a sharp cutting edge, this is in good condition with only a f…
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th February 2022
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