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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: SF-108A65
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unpatinated flint flake produced during the manufacture of gunflint in the 19th-20th centuries AD. It is triangular in form and from the end of a platform gunflint blade, measuring 46.49mm in length, 35.66mm in width, 9.28mm in thickness, and 12.50g in weight. Interestingly, the edges of the flake have been subject to secondary retouch, a feature noted on numerous examples of gunflint waste flakes but seemingly with no obvious explanation as to why the flakes were retouched (Dr. C. Pendleton, pers. comm.).
Created on: Wednesday 16th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FFCDD6
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert(?) arrowhead, the tip missing (possibly recent break). Flat based form with low side notches of American Indian type. All-over bifacially worked a mottled pale/medium browns and greys in colour. This arrowhead was presumably imported in 19th-20th centuries possibly as a necklace and subsquently lost on the heath at Dunwich.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunwich', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2D8614
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A platform gunflint of small size, and post 1790 in date. Measuring 28.43mm by 19.77mm in size and 6.00mm in thickness. The flint is unpatinated and grey/black in colour.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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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.