Record ID: SUR-228B26
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pointed retouched flint blade, possibly of late Upper Paleolithic date, 84.5mm in length, lanceolate in form and struck from a brown coloured flint. It has a trapezoidal cross section and a slightly curved side profile. There is low angle sub-parallel retouch along the entirety of one long side and along two thirds of the other, on the dorsal surface only, running to the distal tip, which has a triangular cross section and has been retouched around and across its entirety with semi abrupt and low angle retouch, to refine a working point. The distal end of the ventral s…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-F6B593
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A water-rolled Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe, found on a beach. The axe measures 101.52mm long by 54.62mm wide and 29.36mm thick and is made from a mottled ochre/red-brown flint. The cutting edges are all damaged.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-AFEB44
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cream coloured flint flake,- possible scraper. There is some possible re-touching along one edge although this is just as likely to have occurred once in the ground, i.e. plough damage. It is not really possible to date a single flake more precisely than to the prehistoric period.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL-AFE2E0
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cream coloured flint tool- possible scraper. It is drop shaped with a ridge running all the awy down, just off-centre. It is a flake which has been re-touched along one side. It is not possible to date this more precisely than to the prehistoric period.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.