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.

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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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.