Record ID: PUBLIC-77C6E1
Object type: WASTE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken waste piece of near black Portland chert with tertiary cortex. It has been deliberately snapped from a longer tool with shallow retouch on the dorsal face. There is no use wear, which suggests that it was never used. There is no retouch on the ventral face.
Created on: Sunday 26th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E21BC7
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint arrowhead, almost leaf shaped in plan and biconvex in profile. It has bifacial invasive retouching. The distal end has been snapped off and it appears to have been formerly a leaf arrowhead. The arrowhead is brown grey with cream flecks. Mercer (1981) illustrated a similar example on page 127, Fig.55, No.L86 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 1st July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E24436
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Beer Head flint arrowhead, almost triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in profile. This is a transverse arrowhead with bifacial retouching. The distal end has a sharp edge. It is dark brown in colour. Keene (1999) illustrates a similar example on page 55, Fig. 6, No. 4 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Friday 1st July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0C9EC7
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Transverse Arrowhead. The ventral face has been retouched at the proximal end at both lateral edges.Two invasive flakes have been struck from the proximal and right margin and meet in the middle of the piece. There is use wear on the left lateral margin which is the 'business end' of the arrowhead. The dorsal face has been abruptly retouched at the proximal end and left margin. The proximal end has been snapped at the right margin. There is use wear on the right lateral edge or 'business end'. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 142, Fig 5.128, No F138 which dates to t…
Created on: Sunday 3rd July 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-283BB4
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Triangular in plan, black with translucent brown/green banding. The dorsal face proximal edge appears straight, the left margin has abrupt retouch along the edge, distal edge appears convex in plan, with some serration (possible use wear damage), the right margin has been retouched along the edge. The ventral face has been retouched along the proximal edge. There appears to be a conchoidal ripples near the distal edge with some removal of material from the left and right proximal to medial on the margins.
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Sunday 5th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A177A7
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Transverse arrowhead, a short flake of brown flint, clouded cream, expanding in plan from a nearly pointed proximal end to a wide distal of little thickness.The proximal end has been prepared before striking by hard hammer with truncated flake scars remaining. The proximal ventral surface has had the bulb of percussion removed by similar work after the flake was struck with further semi-abrupt work extending up the diverging margins. An attempt seems to have been made to produce a nearly symmetrical plan and profile with a thinned butt on a straight profiled flake.This looks like a La…
Created on: Sunday 28th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7B4D04
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Perhaps a transverse arrow head. A medial section of a thin, flat flake of flint filled with smoky cream and grey inclusions. The dorsal surface also has transverse flake ridges. The truncations are oblique and convergent and finished with abrupt, blunting retouch, The long and short margins are unretouched and there is no retouch on the ventral surface. Butler(2005) might describe this as a petit tranchet and illustrates a similar example on page 159, fig.66, 5.
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-16A722
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint transverse arrowhead, almost triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in section. It has a retouched notch on the left side of the distal tip. Both left and right margins have been retouched and both the upper right margin and proximal tip have been snapped. There is gloss on both the dorsal and ventral sides with some retouching on the left margin. It is translucent brown grey with cream flecks in colour and a tertiary cortex. Keene (1999) illustrates a similar example on page 55, Fig. 6, No. 1 which is dated to the Mesolithic period.
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4B4954
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint transverse arrowhead, triangular in plan and rod shaped in profile. It has been bifacially retouched. It is iron stained and dark grey with light flecks in colour and a tertiary cortex. Keene (1999) illustrates a similar example on page 71, Fig. 3, No. 10 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-AFB9F2
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Chert chisel or transverse arrowhead, T-shaped in plan and triangular in profile and section. There is invasive retouch on both margins of the dorsal face, on either side of the tang, and retouch on the left margin of the ventral face around the barb. The colour of the chert is a dark matt grey which suggests that it might be derived from Portland chert from Dorset. The orange discolouration on the distal end is the result of organic staining from peat. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1 which is common for this type of arrowhead as it was made from a square blank. Bond (2004)…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7B7F00
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A chisel arrowhead of large size; perhaps having a different use or being 'for show' but without gloss or damage to indicate any function. The plan is triangular. The small striking platform facet is extant on the right margin next to the sharp unmodified forward edge. The bulb of percussion is visible on the ventral surface of the soft hammer struck flake. Fine grey bown flint with large opaque cream inclusions was chosen and the big trimmed flake indicates that larger imported resources of Devon nodular flint may have been used rather than local beach pebbles. The flake blank has be…
Created on: Saturday 16th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clodgy Moor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7C3E66
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A transverse or petit tranchet arrowhead from a source of fine grey brown and opaque cream flint. The flake blank may have been just small enough to have been from a local beach pebble, but larger nodules were also used from Devon. The ventral surface is unmodified, unlike a chisel arrowhead and shows expanding ripples from a striking platform close to the edge of the arrowhead plan. The striking platform and bulb of percussion have been removed by an unexpected abruptly worked notch into the right edge of the plan where the free sharp edge meets the shoulder. The opposite edge is mor…
Created on: Saturday 16th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clodgy Moor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-A55735
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A Transverse and chisel arrowhead worked on a flake of fine dark brown flint with small opaque cream inclusions. Before removal of the arrowhead blank, parallel flakes were removed that had the proximal ends of their negative scars truncated by the transverse removal forming the wide sharp, straight forward edge of the arrowhead. The proximal and distal ends of the flake blank were flaked away to leave symmetrical concave tapered blunt edges down to the tang using bifacial semi-abrupt retouch. There does seem to be a concentration of mostly undamaged often transverse arrowheads at …
Created on: Monday 18th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clodgy Moor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7D9AC1
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a transverse arrowhead, translucent brown in colour, bi-facially retouched and expediently made. The cutting edge exhibits discontinuous edge retouch of low angle. The medial ridge has been worked and thinned to give a more distinctive and functional projectile form. There is extensive spalling on the ventral face. Butler (2005) illustrates a similar piece on p161, fig 67, 13.
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C9B83D
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint transverse arrowhead, chisel type, triangular in plan, and rhomboidal in profile and in section. The proximal end has had a 'tranchet' flake removed from the dorsal face to create a bevelled edge on this, the longest side of the triangle. The proximal end has been retouched on the left side with three punches. The two margins of the dorsal face have had their entire edge retouched to make it more serrated. On the ventral face at the distal end, there are three fractures emanating from the edge where it has been snapped off. This distal end is the base of the arrowhead, where it …
Created on: Sunday 22nd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F69AE1
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A transverse arrowhead which has been bi-facially retouched and is a formalised tool. The dorsal face exhibits invasive retouch possessing a scaled morphology. The right margin of the dorsal face exhibits continuous retouch with a low angle and is of long type extent. This style of retouch is repeated on the left margin but is only partially distributed. This tool is uniformly brown in colour. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p142, Fig 5.128, F130 which dates to the Late Neolithic.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-640BF6
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A transverse arrowhead, mid-brown in colour with cream inclusions, which has been bi-facially retouched and is a formalised tool. The right margin of the dorsal face exhibits partial retouch with a semi-abrupt angle and is of long type extent. This style of retouch is repeated at the proximal end but is continuous in distribution. Deep grooves are in evidence on the left area of the dorsal face. The left margin of the ventral face exhibits continuous retouch of abrupt angle and is of long type extent, possibly as an aid to hafting. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p1…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-68EEE5
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A transverse arrowhead, mid-brown in colour, which has been bi-facially retouched and is a formalised tool. The left margin of the dorsal face exhibits continuous retouch of abrupt angle and long type extent. A notch has also been created along the cutting edge. Similar retouch is in evidence on both lateral margins of the ventral face. Retouch on the lower area of the lateral margins on both faces is more abrupt in angle which would allow for hafting. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p142, Fig 5.128, F133 which dates to the Late Neolithic.
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-68A1D5
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A transverse arrowhead, mid-brown in colour with cream inclusions, which has been uni-facially retouched and is a formalised tool. The right margin of the dorsal face exhibits partial retouch of low angle and long type extent. A notch has also been created along the cutting edge. Similar retouch is in evidence on both lateral margins of the ventral face. Retouch on the lower area of the lateral margins on both faces is more abrupt in angle which would allow for hafting. Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on p142, Fig 5.128, F133 which dates to the Late Neolithic.
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-2A5D5D
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint, possibly a transverse arrowhead from the Neolithic period 4000 to 2350 BC. A triangle flake worked on the dorsel side with the ventral untouched, with the concusion bulb visible at the proximal end. The edges appear to have been re-touched at some point. Measurements: Length: 21.18mm, width: 20.18mm, thickness: 4.48mm. Weight: 1.89g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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