Record ID: BERK-2D0492
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic flint scraper (40,000-8,300BC). This scraper is made on an elongated secondary flake with approximately 10% cortex remaining. Retouch is present on virtually all sides. Orange brown flint with thick patina. Dimensions: length: 63.43mm; width: 36.51mm; thickness: 13.75mm; weight: 31.55g.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2D0836
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic flint flake (40,000-8,300BC). This is a secondary flake with no cortex remaining. There is some modern damage to the flake which has possibly removed or obscured any retouch.. Orange brown flint with thick patina. Dimensions: length: 51.96mm; width: 56.55mm; thickness: 16.35mm; weight: 41.59g.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2D0C18
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic flint scraper (40,000-8,300BC). This is a secondary flake with approximately 10% cortex remaining. The scraper has been quite intensively flake but only retouched from the dorsal surface. Orange brown flint with thick patina. Dimensions: length: 73.22mm; width: 60.35mm; thickness: 25.67mm; weight: 122.85g.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2D0FE6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic flint flake (40,000-8,300BC). This is a primary flake with approximately 50% cortex remaining. This is a hinge fractured flake with no retouch. Orange brown flint with thick patina. Dimensions: length: 30.47mm; width: 30.57mm; thickness: 6.84mm; weight: 7.30g.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-A249C6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Palaeolithic flint tool (500,000 - 8,300BC). The flint has a thick orange patina. The flint has been worked to form a three sided pointed tool. It is rolled and there is some modern edge damage to the point. Dimensions: length: 80.33mm; width: 31.11mm; thickness: 22.09mm; weight: 56.00g.
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wallingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-60A412
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Palaeolithic flint scraper (40,000-8,300BC). This is a secondary flake with approximately 10% cortex remaining. The distal end has been retouched at quite a steep angle. Modern damage is obscuring the other edges. Orange brown flint with thick patina. Dimensions: length: 64.61mm; width: 47.23mm; thickness: 15.37mm; weight: 69.38g.
Created on: Monday 31st October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2B3542
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Upper Palaeolithic small flint handaxe of Wymer Type E, from the Devensian Glacial Stage. The handaxe is bifacially worked and has an opaque white patina covering the majority of its surface. Length: 53.44mm, width at widest point: 38.12mm, thickness at thickest point: 14.77mm, weight: 30.68g.
Created on: Thursday 25th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-7F2596
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lower palaeolithic handaxe, dating from c. 476,000 - 421,000 BC. The handaxe has been made of a flint nodule that has a greyish-white outer colouring, likely to be from a chalk downlands source. Dating from the Anglian phase of the Lower Palaeolithic, c. 478,000 to 423,000 years ago, the hand axe has bifacial removals made using a hard hammer, such as another stone. Although the hand axe has some post-depositional damage and iron staining, it survives in very good condition. Based on the location of discovery this hand axe probably derived from the Caversham Channel, an ancient rout…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-85BDCC
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic (c800,000 to 180,000BC) handaxe made from grey brown flint patinated with ochre. The axe is fresh and unabraded but there is very slight damage on the cutting edge. The axe is cordate in shape with a twist on its cutting edge.
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAJN-66BBE9
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A large Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean flint handaxe dating to c.340,000-190,000 bc (either 340,000-300,000 bc or 245,000-190,000 bc depending upon which Thames valley gravel terrace it was derived from). in slightly abraded condition. It is ovate in plan with a pointed oval cross section.
Created on: Thursday 8th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abingdon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: BERK-BB2324
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small pointed handaxe made from orange-brown coloured flint. Leaf-shaped with smoothed/rolled surfaces. Almost flat on one face, the other face with central ridge. Possible large chip at base end and another towards tip.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th January 2021
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: BERK-B9F46D
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic flint Plunging flake, no retouching with several flake removal scars. No photograph, and finder unknown.
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2017
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-6549F5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete flint handaxe of Lower Palaeolitic date. The axe is a cordate biface and is complete save for one or two small chips. One side is patinated white and retains areas of cortex; one remaining area forms a hollow. The other side is grey with a dense tangle of off white lines.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Sunday 25th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-B29187
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint end-scraper made on a thick flake of a brown-orange flint. The scraper is sub-square in plan and broadly rectangular in profile, although the large bulb is retained on the reverse. There has been some recortication of the scraper, with this extending over the hard hammer retouching on the right side of the distal end. There are more modern removals (cutting through the patina of the recortication) to the left hand edge. This piece is hard to date as its execution is generally undiagnostic, however it is potentially Palaeolithic (c. 450,000-10,000 BC).
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-7C4F41
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint bladelet with a rubbed end dating to the Late Upper Palaeolithic or early Mesolithic period, c. 40,000 - 7,000 BC. The bladelet has been made from a tertiary flake of a mottled dark brown flint. Part of the platform has been retained and this also appears to have been rubbed, as has the distal end. There are thin flake scars over the dorsal surface. There is possible ancient reutilisation damage on the left hand edge.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-38A5D3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lithic implement, possibly an Lower Paleolithic hand axe but it is also possible that it is a Late Neolithic 'Ovate'. Roughly flaked but with some finer retouch forming a point.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 24th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caversham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-AFCCA2
Object type: POINT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
6 Late Upper Palaeolithic points
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BERK-B09CC6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint blade with possible truncation, possibly dating to the Upper Palaeolithic period.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SUR-6F1AE5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A handaxe of Lower Palaeolithic date measuring 159mm x 99mm. Bifacially worked with relatively crude flaking. Mmottled light grey flint and has a creamy patina and much iron staining. Some damage has occurred during the axe's long history.
Created on: Friday 6th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-F7C037
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint handaxe of lower Paleolithic date (500,000-180,000 BC). The tool is of elongated ovate form, 140mm in length and most likely of Wymer (1999) Type K. It has a thick (48mm) cross section and is struck from a dark grey-brown flint, with light brown to buff-coloured patination typical of deposition in glacial outwash sand and gravel terrace deposits in southern England. The tool is bifacially worked with soft hammer flaking; recent and unpatinated post-depositional damage is evident from the broken off tip and a potlid fracture on one …
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.