Record ID: YORYM-8151E2
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped lithic implement of probable Palaeolithic date. The fragment is part of a bifacially worked axehead with crude flaking over all surfaces. The flint is a light grey mottled colour with patches of iron staining. The fragment is 70.1mm long, 62.2mm wide, 30.6mm thick and weighs 115g. A similar though more complete axehead has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database as SUR-6F1AE5.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
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Record ID: YORYM-818451
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped lithic implement of probable Palaeolithic date. The axehead is sub-triangular in plan and pointed ovate in section. The implement has been bifacially worked with crude flaking over all surfaces. The cutting edge has been more extensively worked with finer flaking. The flint is a light grey mottled colour with some small patches of iron staining. The fragment is 69.6mm long, 44.3mm wide, 20.6mm thick and weighs 59g. A similar though more complete axehead has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database as SUR-6549F5.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
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Record ID: YORYMB1409
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower Palaeolithic hand axe. Found in the garden wall. The property is on the site of an abbey. The axe has been broken in antiquity and re-worked along the fracture.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2002
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: WREX-DAAB27
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Acheulean handaxe c. 500,000 to 180,000 BP. Translucent brown flint with a darker brown sub-circular patch at the centre of the object. the axe is ovate in plan and pointed oval in section. Bifacially flaked using soft hammer. Length: 157mm; width: 77.8mm; thickness: 35.5mm; weight: 409.8g
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horsham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-97D6D5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint handaxe. Probably Acheulian (mode 2) dating to the lower palaeolithic. Length: 119mm, width: 75mm; thickness: 42mm; mass: 294g. Bifacially worked with a tapering, pointed tip. The butt is angled at about 45 degrees when the handaxes is viewed in profile, with a large negative flake scar visible. The flint is heavily patinated (including the butt), and off white/light grey in colour. A less heavily patinated, grey coloured surface has been exposed near to the butt where there has been some more recent damage. The surface is approximately 10% cortex, mostly on one side.
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2009
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdonshire District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C717F3
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint side-scraper with a notch. Prehistoric (Neolithic/Bronze Age, or plausibly Upper Palaeolithic). Mass: 11.0g; length: 44.0mm; width: 28.7mm; thickness: 10.3mm. Light brown flint, approximately 5% cortex (at the distal and proximal ends). Bulb of percussion and ripples of the conchoidal fracture on the ventral face, with a retouched notch on one edge towards the proximal end, and some retouch on the opposite edge. Arris and unidirectional negative flake scars on the dorsal face with extensive semi-abrupt retouch on the edge without the notch, and some retouch on the no…
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lichfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-F65512
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A prehistoric flint backed knife. The knife measures 95 mm long, 55.6 mm wide, 19.65 mm thick and weighs 97.4 grams. It is sub-oval in plan and lozenge shaped in section, with a ridge running down the centre of the dorsal face. The tool may be as early as upper Palaeolithic (circa 40,000 to 8300 BC) , although it is possible that it is early Neolithic in date (circa 3500 to 2900 BC), as such tools were produced throughout prehistory. The large size and shape of the knife suggests that it is probably not Mesolithic (circa 8300 to 3500 BC), when such tools were generally smaller. The …
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2012
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Record ID: WMID-2CD9C1
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / knapped flint naviform handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 800, 000 BC to c. 40,000 BC) The handaxe exhibits working on both dorsal (upper) and ventral (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Debenath. A and Dibble, H. L.,1994, 126). Approximately 85% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 15% of the surface. The biface has a rhomboid shape with a thick butt in profile which thins towards the tip and is a cream/yellow colour. On the dorsal side, roughly central about 20 mm from the butt…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
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Record ID: WMID-3E7BB5
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete flint handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 800, 000 BC to c. 40,000 BC). The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84). The biface has a trapezoidal shape with a thick rounded profile. Approximately 60% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 40% of the surface. Cortex can be seen on both the dorsal and ventral sides, but mostly in the ventral's bottom right corner, from which the light grey cortex can be seen to en…
Created on: Monday 15th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
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Record ID: WMID-D08116
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / knapped quartzite subcordate biface handaxe of Lower and / or Middle Palaeolithic dating (c. 500, 000 BC to c. 150,000 BC). The biface exhibits working on both interior (upper) and exterior (lower) faces, making it a biface handaxe (Graf, A., 2004, 84). Approximately 60% of the surface has been worked, with the original surface or cortex covering the remaining 40% of the surface. The biface has an ovoid shape with a slightly pointed tip and a thick rounded profile. The butt is made of smooth cortex. The interior right side about 1/4 from the butt has been ham…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th October 2013
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Record ID: WMID-68A7F7
Object type: BURIN
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric worked flint tool. The tool has been made from a knapped blade which measures 49.29 mm long, 19.5 mm wide and 6.63 mm thick. It weighs 6.4 grams). It is sub-triangular in section. The striking platform and bulb of percussion are clearly visible at the proximal end. The blade has been retouched on both lateral edges and at the distal end. The distal end terminates in a point and the right lateral edge projects down from the point at a diagonal angle of approximately 300 degrees. This angular section has been retouched and may have resulted from the removal of a spall in o…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: WILT-A75BF1
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Spherical flint nodule, c.770mm in diameter. The cortex has a crazed appearance and is chipped. In two places large areas of a chipped light brown flint beneath the cortex can be seen. Although a natural flint nodule, the wear suggests it may have been used as a Prehistoric hammerstone.
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-155FE2
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic greensand chert probably Acheulian handaxe, water worn and with a natural (roundish) flake scar on one face. It measures 156mm in length, is max.92.41mm wide and max.43.14mm thick. It is tear-drop-shaped and there is some probable (old) damage at the pointed end. With much thanks to Martin Green and Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen for identification. Martin Green comments, 'It has had a hard life'.
Created on: Friday 6th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-9120A1
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A probable Palaeolithic handaxe. A worn, nodular flint cobble with several steep bifacial face removals from either side, which form crude cutting edges, possibly dating to the Palaeolithic. It weighs 628g and measures 129.32x82.95x55.18mm. It does not have a thinned tip, just a rounded cobble end and the butt is entirely cortical. It could be a crude handaxe but might equally be a flake core. It has been heavily rolled with variable orange-pale yellow brown recortification.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Last updated: Friday 21st March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fareham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-22EC93
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Large flint flake, 110mm long and 39mm at its widest point. Most of the flake is flat (max 11mm thick) but it is circular in section at one end and broken, so an odd circular fossil is visible. The circular section is surrounded in coretex. Coretx covers approx.25% of the flake. The flat part of the flake is smooth on one side and curving - presumably the result of a strike, and the flake above it being lifted off. It has a milky-white patination. The other side rises to a ridge running the length at the middle. To one side of the ridge it has milky-white patination, to the other the f…
Created on: Wednesday 12th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-EEFB94
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint Lower Palaeolithic handaxe dating to the period c. 500,000 - 150,000 BC. It measures 115.21mm in length, 83.73mm maximum width, 19.83mm minimum width, 35.62mm maximum thickness, 4.44mm minimum thickness and weighs 292.29g. The handaxe is sub-cordate in shape with a reversed S-shape profile. It has been bifacially flaked using a soft hammer and retains c. 15% cortex visible in two places. Uneven recortication is visible across both surfaces. One patch of cortex is on one face near the butt end, the other patch is along one mesal edge, again, near the butt end. The butt end a…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Record ID: WILT-5F0EF3
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flint Lower Palaeolithic handaxe dating to the period c. 500,000 - 150,000 BC. The handaxe is cordate in shape and has been bifacially flaked using alternate flaking. It exhibits a reversed S-shaped profile. There is no cortex visible on either surface, however the handaxe has become heavily recorticated across both surfaces and exhibits a thick off-white patina. There are fossil inclusions visible on both surfaces. There is a large crack running around the edge of the distal end on one surface. The handaxe measures 83.59mm in length, 57.04mm maximum width, 5.13mm minimum width, …
Created on: Friday 15th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2017
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Record ID: WILT-660D5C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flint Lower Palaeolithic handaxe dating to the period c. 500,000 - 150,000 BC. The handaxe is sub-cordate in shape and has been bifacially flaked using alternate flaking. It has a reversed S-shape profile. Approximately 15% cortex remains across both surfaces and uneven recortication is also visible on both surfaces. The handaxe shows evidence of rolling and iron staining. There is some recent damage at the distal end which is visible as unpatinated chips, along with older damage down both mesal edges. The handaxe measures 106.79mm in length, is 81.69mm maximum width, 15.49mm min…
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Record ID: WILT-90EA74
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A thick butted handaxe dating to the lower Palaeolithic, heavily rolled (a beach find) and re-cortified semi gloss pale yellow-brown. The handaxe weighs 702g and measures 150x 96.43x57.72mm. Possibly originally sub-cordate or sub-pointed (tip may have been broken prior to patination). It was made on a worn nodule with some areas of cortex remaining on the butt. Bifacially worked with soft-hammer and thinned toward tip: some shaping of butt-end. Worn edges show pale grey-brown flint but this may be secondary patination.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Last updated: Friday 21st March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fareham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CBA4C5
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible handaxe thinning flake of lower Paleolithic date. On the ventral surface the bulb of percussion and bulbar scar are visible. On the dorsal face irregular arises are visible. The flake is 82.05mm in length, 57.35mm wide, 13.55mm thick and weighs 81.06 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 27th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 21st March 2014
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