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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.

Record ID: BERK-F900D8
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A incomplete late Neolithic / Bronze Age tanged and barbed arrowhead. The arrowhead is long and slender having been finely worked bifacially. The tang is pointed and again worked bifacially. The tip of the arrowhead is missing but otherwise it is a very well made and well preserved object with no indication of post-depositional damage. Arrowheads of this type are not a common find; those more often found are usually short and squat.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-9F3670
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Created on: Monday 19th November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Wittenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-DBA436
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic (4000 - 2350BC) flint scraper, 47.6mm in length, struck from a light grey tertiary flint flake. The flake has a clear bulb of percussion on the ventral surface with clear ripple marks. The striking platform is concave. The dorsal surface has a large flake removal scar. There is short, abrupt and scaled retouch evident around the edges.
Created on: Monday 19th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-031A49
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Neolithic oblique (British oblique) flint arrowhead. The arrowhead comprises the main body having lost one long edge and the tip due to resent breaks. It has been knapped from a pale mid grey coloured flake or tertiary flint which has a milky white surface patina. It is broadly triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. the extant long edge is thickened and rod like descending to form the tang whilst the opposing edge and the tip tapers and is lost. Both the ventral and dorsal faces are reworked. The retouch applied to the tang and long edge is best described …
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-21E1B9
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One flake of flint debitage of prehistoric date (c. 4000 BC - AD 43). The piece is a secondary piece of flint retaining a thin chalky white pebble cortex on its dorsal surface. The flint is mostly a mixed and mottled medium grey colour with large off white and darke grey patches. it also has occasional orange iron staining. It has a semi-glossy patina. The flake is sub-rectangular in plan with irregular edges. The piece has at least two earlier flake removals on its dorsal surface while the reverse has none. At the proximal end of the ventral surface a medium bulb of percuss…
Created on: Friday 4th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 7th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-D51764
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One flake of flint debitage of Neolithic date (c. 4000 - 2400 cal BC). The piece is a secondary piece of flint that is mostly a matte white colour with occasional dark grey banded inclusions. Only a small portion of thin off white mottled cortex survives on the side of the flake's dorsal surface. The flake is sub-rectangular in plan with irregular edges. The piece has at least five earlier flake removals on its dorsal surface while the reverse has none. At the proximal end of the ventral surface a shallow bulb of percussion and an eraillure scar are visible, as are some medi…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glympton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D45D4D
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age c.2500-1500 cal BC. The arrowhead is made from a tertiary flake of flint that is a matte white colour. Approximately two thirds of the arrowhead survives. This consists of its pointed tip, most of one of its barbs the tip of which has been snapped off, and most of its tang which appears to be narrow. the remaining barb and part and part of the body of the arrowhead are lost to a break which has the same patination as the rest of the arrow indicating this occurred a long time ago, possibl…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonesfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D39D7A
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and then repurposed Neolithic flaked and polished flint axe, dating to c.4000-2350 BC. The surviving axe is sub-rectangular in form with a crescent polished blade edge on one side from which its two long edges extend. The first of these edges expands outwards for about one quarter of its length. The other expands for about one third of its length. After these points each edge narrows to and then converge to a rounded point. The axe's surface is polished smooth between the crescent end and the point at which it starts to narrow in width. The remaining portion of the…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonesfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-799ADD
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic implement comprised of an opaque mixed grey flintblade with surviving cortex on the reverse, probably dating from the Late Neolithic to Bronze Age. Low bulb of percussion with scaled low angle retouching along both sides forming cutting edges. The end of the blade also has short, scaled retouching. It measures 31.8mm long, 10.6mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 1.41 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-7B8F6B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single flint scraper of possible Bronze Age date c. 2400-800 BC. The scraper is worked from a tertiary flake of medium brown grey flint whose surfaces has a white patch and occasional white inclusions. It has a glossy patina.The flake is an irregular pentagon in shape with a flat striking platform, one long straight side (on the left as seen from the dorsal side) and three more irregular angled edges. One of these angled edges has short, sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch along its length up to a break in the edge on the ventral surface. The dorsal surface also has five earlier…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 27th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-7B5F86
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of four pieces of flint debitage of probable Mesolithic to Neolithic in date (c. 8000- 2400 BC). Two pieces are secondary flakes and the other two are tertiary flakes. One of the secondary flakes is a medium brown-grey flint with frequent grey patch inclusions (c.5.7mm) that has most of its ventral surface covered in a thin brown cortex. The remaining three flakes have a creamy white patina with occasional grey mottling. The three white flakes show linear narrow blade removals from their dorsal face, all struck in the same direction as the flakes themselves. Two flakes re…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 27th May 2020
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.

Record ID: OXON-E83C0B
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One flake of flint debitage of Mesolithic to Neolithic date (c. 8000 - 2400 cal BC). The piece is a secondary piece of flint that is mostly a matte white colour with occasional orange and brown small inclusions. Only a small portion of thin off white mottled cortex survives on the side of the flake's dorsal surface. The flake is sub-rectangular in plan with irregular edges. The piece has at least four earlier flake removals on its dorsal surface struck in the same direction as this flake. The reverse has none. At the proximal end of the ventral surface a shallow bulb of perc…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hailey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E3257B
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very fine example of a complete Neolithic endscraper dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The end scraper is made from a secondary flake of flint. with c.40% of its dorsal surface retraining a thin light orange pebble cortex. The rest of the flake is a mottled grey white colour with darker grey inclusions and patches. This has a glossy patina. The scraper is sub-triangular in plan. It has two long angular edged extending from the one point, the striking platform of the flake, extending to the distal end of the flake which is flat. The scraper is trapezoidal in cross section with a …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-D4B6FD
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Neolithic flint fabricator used for lighting fires dating to between c.4000-2400 cal BC. The tool is made is from a tertiary flake of flint that is mostly matte white colour with one large mid grey patch, occasional mid grey inclusions (c.2mm diameter) and occasional orange iron staining. The tool is sub-triangular in plan with a flat proximal from which two slightly crescent edges extend and narrow to a rounded point. The tool is D-shaped in cross section with a mostly flat ventral surface and D-shaped dorsal surface. No bulb of percussion is identifiable on the tool an…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glympton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D4F0E0
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rejuvenation flake from a flint core, possibly dating to the Neolithic date (4000-2400 BC) The core fragment is from a tertiary flake and is covered mostly in a matte white patina with occasion mid grey inclusions (c. 2.5mm diameter) and orange iron staining. The striking platform for the flake survives as does a shallow bulb of percussion although no ripples emanating from this are visible, potentially suggesting the use of a soft hammer. The distal end of this flake terminates in a rounded hinge fracture. The dorsal surface shows at least six flake removal scars coming f…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glympton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D59BA5
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age tanged arrowhead (c.3000-1500 cal BC). The piece is a tertiary piece of flint that is mostly a matte white colour a patch that is medium orange brown and very dark grey. The arrow's main body is sub-oval in shape with the point of maximum width being placed closer to the shaft tang of the arrow. The tang is narrow and rectangular. The arrowhead is sub-triangular in cross section with one surface being slightly convex. All sides of the arrow are covered in invasive scaled retouch. One area of the flake is a darker grey colour that…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glympton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-2BA994
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic scraper on a tertiary flake. This has an off-centre arise on the dorsal and a large bulb of percussion on the ventral. The forward edge has semi-abrupt, direct retouch that creates a curved leading edge. This is a grey flint with darker and lighter patches.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-BAFA9A
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic rounded scraper possibly dating to the Later Neolithic period (3300-2200 B.C.). The scraper is plano-convex in shape with cortex present on the majority of the dorsal face. The ventral face is worked with invasive semi-abrupt retouch. The sides have stepped semi-abrupt retouch. The scraper has a white opaque patina. The scraper is 94.7mm in length, 74.8mm in width, 25.9mm in thickness.
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.