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Record ID: WMID-52AA34
Object type: WORKED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint of probable Neolithic date. The flint is sub-triangular in shape and resembles an arrowhead in shape. However, the flint has no invasive retouch and it retains the bulb of percussion and striking platform, a very unusual feature in Neolithic or Bronze Age arrowheads as the bulb of percussion is normally removed to facilitate hafting. The 'arrowhead' shape therefore seems likely to be coincidence rather than design. Very fine possible retouch resembling a saw blade may have been applied to both lateral edges, although it is possible that this has been caused during use …
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: WMID-533232
Object type: WORKED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of chert, possibly worked. If it has been knapped from a core, it does not appear to have been retouched subsequently. The object does not have any of the clear hallmarks of human intervention - it does not have a clear bulb of percussion or striking platform. What appears at first to be retouch on the lateral edges may actually be natural damage and wear. The chert has a pale brown colour. Find not photographed.
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: WMID-239DC2
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A transverse arrowhead, probably of petit tranchet type (length: 20mm; width: 18mm; thickness: 6mm; weight: 2.02g). The narrower end is what the shaft would have been connected. There has been extensively knapping on all three sides apart from the narrow end to create a sharp edge. There are three principal types defined as transverse arrowheads defined by typological analysis. These are the petit tranchet, chisel and oblique types. It is uncertain when petit tranchets were first manufactured in Britain. Some may perhaps date to the Mesolithic period, but most of the Mesolithic site…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2014
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Record ID: WMID-383319
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable transverse arrowhead of grey-green translucent flint. Late Neolithic dating (3300 BC to 2200 BC). The arrowhead is triangular in shape, with a sub-rectangular cross section. Conchoidal ripples are present on the ventral face. Retouch is present along both side edges, on both faces. The retouch can be classified as short, sub-parallel and abrupt. The arrowhead measures 31.5 mm in length with a maximum width of 22.7 mm. It is 6.1 mm thick and weighs 3.5 g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-B4D444
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint thumbnail scraper made from a flake and dating to the late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age. The scraper is sub-oval in shape with a finely retouched curved edge on the dorsal face. There is a small patch of cortex on the dorsal face and a V shaped butt area where the original flake was struck off the core. The ventral surface has a pronounced bulb of percussion with ripples radiating from this point across the surface. There is no retouch on the ventral surface. The scraper weighs 3.57g and measures 23.4mm in length, 19.4mm in width and 7.78mm in thickness.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2019
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Record ID: WMID-C6E011
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint thumbnail scraper, formed on a flake, dating to the late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age, between 3000 – 1800 BC (length: 23mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 5.5mm; weight: 3.2g). On the ventral side of the scraper, there is a bulb of percussion with an eraillure scar and ripples or ‘lunettes’ radiating down and outwards from the feature. On the dorsal side, there are three main arrises with retouched edges to the left and top of the artefact. The retouched edge on thumbnail scrapers tends to be around the circumference, o near total edge, of the flake blank.…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SWYOR-BF4EE6
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint thumbnail scraper made from a flake and dating to the late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age. The scraper is sub-oval in shape with a finely retouched curved edge on the dorsal face. About a third of the edge in unworked - this is the butt area where the original flake was struck off the core. The dorsal surface is mostly covered in dark honey coloured cortex apart from on the retouched edges. The angle of retouch is about 45 degrees. The ventral surface has a pronounced bulb of percussion with ripples radiating from this point across the surface. There is no retouch on the ventral s…
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Record ID: HESH-768044
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A thumbnail scraper of later Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date (2300 -1800BC). The scraper is formed on a fine, mid grey / black coloured good quality, tertiary flake of flint. The ventral face shows the bulb scar and point of percussion as well as conchoidal ripples; the prepared platform has been removed by subsequent flaking. The dorsal face has several removals / flake facets. These are most dense around the edge where a series of neat regular well applied secondary retouch can be seen. This has been well applied and forms a slightly serrated cutting / scraping edge that extends …
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-B50571
Object type: SIDE SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint side scraper probably dating to the Neolithic. The scraper is roughly tear shaped with one finely retouched scraping edge. The bulb of percussion is clear on the ventral surface. There is no retouch on the ventral surface. The scraper weighs 7.57g and measures 39.1mm in length, 26.5mm in width and 7.9mm in thickness and is knapped from honey coloured flint.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID-AE6E36
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bifacially worked fragment of a flint Sickle of Neolithic dating (circa 4000 BC - 2351 BC). The fragment is broadly sub-triangular in shape, and broadly lentoid (lozenge) shaped in cross section. The fragment comes from towards the tip of the sickle, however the actual tip and the base are now missing. The flint is white and grey in colour with the tip in a brown colour. The fragment has a bowed curved edge. Both the ventral and dorsal faces of the flake have been reworked. This secondary reworking is best seen on the curved edge where detailed neat small flakes have…
Created on: Friday 12th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th December 2014
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Record ID: WAW-C51C17
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint or chert scraper. The flint or chert is a mid red/brown colour with red/beige patches. In plan it is a sub-drop shape. The dorsal face (the face with the most scars) has retouch around the side and lower edges, the base of the drop shape. The retouch is formed by long, narrow parallel negative scars. The angle of the retouch is c. 60 degrees. The ventral face (smooth face) has no retouch, but has bulbar scars as well as the bulb and concentric rings. The scraper, with the striking platform at the top, is 36.98mm long and is 28.64mm wide. It weighs 10.6g. The scraper…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Saturday 18th March 2017
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Record ID: WMID-1F0855
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric flint end and side scraper. Length 33.2mm; width: 22.8mm; thickness: 8.2mm; mass: 7.2g. The scraper is formed on a dark gray, almost black coloured secondary flint flake, with approximately 10% cortex remaining on one edge of the ventral side. There is abrupt retouch on part of one mesial edge and the distal end of the ventral side. The dorsal side has gentle ripples of the concoidal fracture, with a series of scars at the proximal end. There is also a large scar on one side of the distal end. The scraper is likely to be prehistoric, probably dating from the mesolithi…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1F0F70
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint scraper. Length 25.0mm; width: 19.1mm; thickness: 9.9mm; mass: 3.8g. The scraper is formed on a light brown/off white coloured secondary flint flake, with approximately 20% cortex remaining on one side. There are multiple negative flake scars on the flatter side. The other face has semi-abrupt retouch covering the semi-circular distal end, between the cortex at one side, and the break at the other side. The scraper is likely to be prehistoric, probably dating from the mesolithic period (c. 8,300 BC to c. 4,500 BC).
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1F15B4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper, probably dating from the late neolithic or early bronze age periods. Length 16.6mm; width: 17.9mm; thickness: 8.0mm; mass: 2.7g. The scraper is formed on a secondary grey coloured flint flake, with approximately 25% cortex remaining on the proximal end of the dorsal side. There is invasive retouch on the dorsal side, with the retouched edge stretching around much of the circumference, excluding the cortex covered proximal end. On the ventral face there is a diffuse bulb of percussion and ripples of the conchoidal fracture. There is also a sub-triangular n…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1EF146
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric knapped end-and-side scraper on a flint flake. Length: 29.9mm; width: 27.2mm; thickness: 6.5mm; mass: 5.7g. The ventral face has a diffuse bulb of percussion and a bulbar scar at the proximal end, with ripples of the conchoidal fracture visible at the distal end. On the dorsal face there are a series of narrow unidirectional negative flake scars and ridges, with semi-abrupt retouch on the distal end and almost the entire length of one edge. The flint flake is non-cortical is grey and black in colour. The scraper is likely to be prehistoric, probably dating from the Mesol…
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shenstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C6C087
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint thumbnail scraper. Neolithic (3500BC - 2100BC). Mass: 2.3g; length: 16.8mm; width: 21.2mm; depth: 6.5mm. Primary dark grey/off white flint flake with retouch around much of the edge, covering approximately 40% of the dorsal face, with the remaining approximately 60% being cortical.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lichfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C6E3A3
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped scraper on a grey flint flake. Mass: 2.6g; length: 22.0mm; width: 17.3mm; 6.8mm. Prehistoric, possibly Neolithic (3500BC-2100BC). Retouch on the dorsal face around the distal end and on one side.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lichfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C6EBA4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped transverse scraper on a grey flint flake. Neolithic or Bronze Age. Mass: 14.8mm; length: 36.2mm; width: 44.5mm; depth: 12.7mm. Bulb of percussion and ripples of the conchoidal fracture on the ventral face. Arrises and flake scars on the dorsal face with semi-abrupt retouch around the convex sides and distal end.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lichfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-F6CC76
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric flint object, probably a Neolithic or Bronze Age scraper. The flint appears to have a bulb of percussion and bulb scar at the proximal end, and retouch has been applied to the distal end, applied from both ventral and dorsal faces. The flint is a cream to grey colour with ochre brown in places. The flint is not clearly diagnostic of a closely defined prehistoric period, and is likely to be Neolithic or Bronze Age in date, dating from circa 4000 to 1500 BC. If more diagnostic artefacts were recovered from the same area, this might allow suggestion of a more closely define…
Created on: Monday 20th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th December 2010
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Record ID: WMID-F7B580
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A largely complete disc scraper, fabricated from a broad, squat flint flake, probably from the later neolithic or early bronze age. In plan the scraper is broadly circular, with a flat striking platform at the proximal end. In profile, the scraper has two convex sides which meet at the distal end, with the flat striking platform at the proximal end. The convex ventral face is formed by a bulb of percussion with a bulbar scar at the proximal end, and gentle ripples of the conchoidal fracture visible towards the distal end. There are some fractures on the perimeter of the ventral face, b…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2008
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.