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Record ID: HAMP-118A53
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Neolithic polished axe of white flint, slightly chipped and broken but retaining the classic profile and smooth texture. At the distal end the dark flint below is visible in the flat bottom, and it can be seen at another point further up in the axe where it has been damaged. A large removal is visible on the ventral face, along with a slight amount of iron staining and elements of a darker grey patina.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
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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-D8F453
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete probable tranchet type axehead of Mesolithic date (8300-4500 BC), missing both butt and cutting end. It measures 74.68x39.60x23.57mm and weighs 66.5g. The flint surface has 100% patination with iron staining along the arises. In cross-section the axehead is lentoid and both faces have large flake scars. An areas of cortex is visible on one face only. The breaks at either end are ancient and display patination to a lesser extent than the rest of the surface. Recent plough damage shows a dark grey flint underneath. One face has an area of possible polishing, suggesting…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-DBA827
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Mesolithic tranchet axehead or a slightly later Neolithic flaked axehead (not enough survives to be sure). It comprises the butt end (unless it is a narrow cutting end). Measures 35.05x34.92x22.51mm and weighs 23.9g. The axehead fragment is lentoid in cross-section and has large flake scars on both surfaces with some iron staining on the arises. The flint is 100% heavily patinated on all surfaces, including the break which indicates this occurred in ancient times.
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-825E65
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Neolithic (3500-2100 BC) flint Polished Axehead, roughly triangular in shape, expanding from the butt to the cutting edge. It measures 137.08x(max)56.97x(max)33.31mm and weighs 297.54g. The flint is very heavily patinated - it is almost entirely grey-white in colour, with a dark grey flint bleeding in at the butt end (which also has a small patch of cortex on one surface). The entire surface is polished with a few (likely ancient) flake removals on each face. Towards the cutting edge the surface is very highly polished and glassy in appearance. The cutting edge (56.97x1.09mm) is…
Created on: Friday 15th October 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-F1E4F2
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Neolithic (3500-2100 BC) flint Polished Axehead with convex sides, with damage to the butt end (probably the original end) and one side. It measures 95.46x(max)56.78x(max)28.53mm and weighs 177.74g. The flint is heavily patinated and a greyish-white in colour. On one face, close to the damage, is a patch of cortex that has been polished smooth. Flakes scars close to both edges and on both sides of the cutting edge show variations in the patination, showing damage over a considerable amount of time. Iron staining is also apparent in streaks, particularly on one face. Re…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-9C3E75
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from c. 2,500 – 2,000 BC The arrowhead appears complete but may have a damaged barb (with a length of 29.7mm, a width of 23.8mm, a thickness of 4.2mm and a weight of 2.6g). The arrowhead is made on a convex flake with only slight and marginal retouch on the ventral surface. The dorsal surface has been pressure-flaked. The flint is non-cortical and has patinated grey.
Created on: Thursday 1st May 2008
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: WILT-83B502
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Mesolithic/ Early Neolithic flaked flint axehead or adze. It measures 109.5x50.3x30.5mm and weighs 189.98g. In shape the axe/ adze is oval, the cutting edge rounded. In profile, one face appears thinner below the cutting edge, which overhangs this area slightly. The flint is heavily patinated on one face and half-heavily/ half-pebbled on the other face. Damage at the cutting edge and butt end show a light grey flint beneath. There is some iron staining on both faces. In section, at the butt-end, it is diamond-shaped. At the cutting end it is oval-sectioned. 7000-3000 BC.
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-283AB7
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Prehistoric worked flint, possible a Mesolithic tranchet axehead although not enough survives. Measures 95.96x42.18x26.89mm and weighs 111.42g. The flint is grey in colour and flakes have been removed from both faces. 10% cortex survives on one face.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-4D7796
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Neolithic (3500 BC - 2100 BC) flint polished axehead, consisting either of the butt end of a large axehead or the cutting edge of a smaller axehead. It weighs 61.16g and measures 45.82mm in length. It has expanding sides. The complete end (50.17mm wide) is curving with a chunk missing from the edge and one face, with possible retouch. The break at the other end (57.31mm wide, 22.11mm thick) has a hinge fracture within it and may have occurred across a natural fault in the flint. There is natural damage to the side edges. The flint is very heavily patinated - the entire fra…
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2009
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMGW137
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PREHISTORIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Waste flint flake, damaged on one edge. Length 34mm.
Created on: Friday 10th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chippenham, Wiltshire', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMGW3179
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Finely pressured flaked flint knife with neat oblique retouch on both sides. Length 53mm, width (max.) 32mm, thickness 8mm. Probably Early Bronze Age in date.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-DDE311
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, tip missing. All of the damage on the arrowhead is ancient. Length 39.2mm, width 23.2mm, thickness 4.9mm, weight 3.5 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: WILT-F694E4
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic polished axehead of orange flint. The object weighs 148.45g, is 150mm long, has a cutting edge 42mm wide and has a maximum thickness of 20mm. It is compete but slightly damaged. The cutting edge has one large chip, and a section of the butt is missing. Flakes have been removed along the length of the axe. These are mainly shallow, but towards the middle of the body are deeper. It is unclear whether the larger of these are intentional (for example, to improve the hafting) or post-depositional. Around 5% of the surface is covered in a white patina. The axe is faceted and trape…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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Record ID: WILT-75C434
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cutting end of a polished flint axehead. The cutting edge is damaged. Width 68mm, incomplete length 53mm, max thickness 26mm.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2006
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-0A1053
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead The arrowhead is near-complete, missing only one barb and has a surviving length of 21.10mm, a maximum surviving width of 17.96mm, a maximum thickness of 4.11mm and weighs 1.1g. The flint has patinated white. A small area n one face appears to be polished and suggests the arrowhead may have been reworked from a Neolithic polished flint axehead.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2006
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: WILT-195990
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete perforated object, stone 'pebble' macehead, oval in shape with a central perforation slightly 'hour-glass' shaped and very smooth. The stone is speckled with a greenish-blue hue and several green blue fault lines running through it. It is probably Cornish or Welsh in origin. Measures 151x101x42 and weighs 945g (to nearest 5g). Similar to an example in Flint Implements (The British Museum 1968) from Marlborough in Wiltshire and dating to the Mesolithic (Plate X, no.7).
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durnford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-747D60
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead (2,500 – 1,500 BC). The arrowhead is complete except for a little damage to the barbs. It is 20.5mm long, 4.1mm thick and has a maximum surviving width across the barbs of 19.3mm. The arrowhead was made on a cortical flake and areas of patination survive on both faces, suggesting that the arrowhead may have been reworked from an earlier tool or debitage. The patinated areas are a pale blue, while the rest of the surface is unpatinated and dark grey. The arrowhead weighs 1.3g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2005
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: HAMP-A05C64
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age flint flake, c. 2500-1500 BC. Light to mid-grey flint flake. There is a bulb of percussion at the proximal end of the ventral surface beneath the striking platform and there is some rippling evident on this surface. There are flake scars, ridges and rippling on the dorsal surface. The flake is worked to a point at the distal end, and there is evidence of retouching along the edges.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMGW-6CE636
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Near complete Neolithic flint leaf-shaped arrowhead dated to between c.4500BC to 1700BC. The arrowhead is relatively long and missing the tip, possibly as a result of impact damage. It is patinated white, consistent with deposition within a chalk-land environment. Probably of Green's type 3B
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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