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Record ID: ESS-BDF267
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished stone axe of Neolithic date (4000-2500BC)
Description: The axe is made from mid grey stone with iron staining in places, it has been knapped and then polished to give a smooth appearance. The surface has some later damage where flakes have chipped off, particularly along the cutting edge, which appear darker grey. The axe is sub-triangular in plan and lenticular in cross section. It is narrower at the butt end, measuring 25.2mm wide and 10.6mm thick. It is thickest at the mid-section, measuring 30.8mm. It is widest at the curved cutting edge, measuring 48.4mm …
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: LIN-BC4CCE
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic polished axe of Group VI Great Langdale volcanic tuff dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC.
Only the cutting edge portion has survived and it is sub-rectangular in form and pointed oval in cross-section. The cutting edge has been reworked with a smoothed lateral facet or is very worn. The axe thickens towards the truncated end and there is some damage to the surviving lengths. Smooth surface with a greyish-green patina.
Length (originally the width, measured diagonally to the longest length): 65.69 mm; Width (originally the length)…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Near Donington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-CBBDF4
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone axehead of Neolithic date, c. 3500 - 2100 BC.
Only the cutting edge of the axehead survives and is D-shaped in plan and ovate in section. The remaining surfaces are smooth and the break is worn and smooth. The rounded cutting edge is fractured with worn breaks.
The axe fragment is 53.9mm long, 60mm wide, 18.3mm thick and weighs 81.8g.
The axe is comprised of a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff - a sedimentary volcanic rock possibly from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria. This stone was most probably chosen for its colour and fineness which allowe…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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Record ID: ESS-EA5B9E
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very large stone axe with a semi-circular blade, which slightly flares out from both sides, tapering sides and a narrow circular butt. The axe is oval in cross-section. The blade edge is very chipped. The axe is made of a greenish-coloured stone which is very uniform in colour and texture. The surface appears to have been polished, with evidence surviving on one side close to the blade, but is now very pitted. There are two shallow longitudinal grooves on one face. The axe measures 195 mm long, 82 mm wide (across the blade) and 47 mm thick. The butt is approximately 16 mm i…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Walton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F2223C
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cornish greenstone axe with a degraded and weathered surface, this is usual for this type of stone, otherwise it is complete: -of petrological Group 1 or 1 a, (Group 1, Uralitized gabbro, epidiorite, or greenstone. Source in Mount’s Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall. Widely distributed and abundant. Keiller, Piggott, and Wallis, PPS, 7 (1941), 51. Group 1 a, Close to Group 1. Stone and Wallis, PPS, 17 (1951), 105).
Specific for this axe: Stone Imp. Pet. N308. Late Neolithic, 3,000 to 2,350 BC.
See records: NMS-F2F3DB NMS-F27DB7 NMS-F2572B NMS-C0A67B fo…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BC2855
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large axe, knapped, then ground and polished to shape, of an unusual type of pale, fine grained stone with lighter streaks within. It is in relatively good condition with minor losses to the edges and scrapes associated with contact with agricultural machinery, unsurprising as the field has been in cultivation (recently) for around 60-70 years, yet it has only now been retrieved. The butt appears to have a combination of old and recent damage, the cutting edge is slightly "S" shaped rather than straight, probably from locally grinding out chips to this edge to re-sharpen it. One large…
Created on: Monday 24th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FFA9AA
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ground stone axe or adze, of Augite Granophyre from the Welsh North coast, petrological Group VII (Clough and Cummins ,CBA Research Report No 23, 1979) from the axe factories in the Penmaenmawr area, Caernarvonshire. In water worn and abraded condition with the most noticeable loss to the cutting edge, now partially encrusted with barnacles showing that the axe has been in a stable marine/intertidal environment for some time, probably the rest of the axe was partially buried, with part of the axe surface exposed to the water long enough for them to colonis…
Created on: Monday 2nd November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-940053
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axe, of pointed form with an oval cross-section, of Clough and Cummins (1988), petrological group XVIII, made from a cobble of green/grey quartz dolerite little bigger than the finished axe, original surfaces with a rough texture and with light brown surfaces are extant to the sides, the modified surface appear to be ground only, there is no evidence of pecking to achieve the final shape, this type of stone responds quickly to grinding.
The cutting edge is heavily damaged, it has possibly been re-used as a hammer, though this is difficult to say for sure, the very tip of th…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-A510DC
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone axehead of Neolithic date, c. 3500 - 2100 BC. The axehead is trapezoidal in plan with an ovate section. The surfaces are rough and covered in a thick creamy-white/brown cortex with chips to the cutting edge displaying the dark green/grey interior.
The axe fragment is 91.3mm long, 46.5mm wide, 20.5mm thick and weighs 115g.
The axe is comprised of a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff - a sedimentary volcanic rock possibly from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria. This stone was most probably chosen for its colour and fineness which allowed it to be highl…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: LVPL-C6A546
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An axe or axe shaped object made of soft chalk.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Londesborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-C5D49A
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished stone axehead of Neolithic date (3450-2350 BC). The object is a greenstone axe head, Langdale type VI. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and a pointed oval in cross-section. The butt end of the object terminates with a worn break. The cutting edge is very worn on one side, possibly due to damage which occurred during antiquity which has since been worn down.
Dimensions:- 79.2mm in length, 51.9mm, in width, 25.4mm thick. The axehead measures 24mm in length from the start of taper to blade. Towards the butt end it measures 52mm from widest point to break po…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Londesborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F6A447
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Cornish greenstone axe, of petrology group I (Clough and Cummins, 1979, 1988), uralitised gabbro/epidiorite sourced from Mount's Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall, surface is pitted from loss of surface material but otherwise is in undamaged condition, it is of rather thick oval section with an asymmetrical cutting edge, the top edge of the axe extends further forward than the lower edge, both lateral edges are very straight from the top and the bottom of the cutting edge, only slightly constricting towards the butt, which is abruptly blunted, presumably to help with knocking…
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5AE144
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete neolithic stone axe-head of unidentified grey stone. The more pointed haft end shows patches of exposed cream-coloured cortex. Probably unpolished as the surface is covered with irregular pitting, and the cutting edge has one smooth edged, but chipped, area whereas the other side is chipped and almost entirelu unpolished. The polishing may be due to the type of work being done rather than polished during manufacture. On the same side as the polished cutting edge, 2-3cm from the hafted end, is a short slightly curved groove (15mm long) probably due to modern damage. …
Created on: Friday 9th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Reepham Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: GLO-231993
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~A Neolithic ground and polished axehead. The implement has been extensively chipped and ground into a long elongated sub-rectangular shape in plan that tapers from the cutting edge to the butt which terminates in a rounded point. The blade on the forward edge has been ground into an asymmetrical crescent, this is also the only section to have been polished. The stone is a dark green with an extensive creamy mottling. The axe dates from between circa 3500 BC to 2100BC
Created on: Monday 1st October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-BB85B7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic polished stone axe, 99mm long, 64mm wide and 26mm thick with a weight of 202g.
The axe is mostly complete, missing its hafted end, but has also sustained a lot of damage aroud its edges. It is sub rectangular in form and eliptical in cross section. It has a pronounced rounded step just before it drops down to form a blade on one face. It has no obvious facets and is a dark grey/brown, suggesting Charnwood slate.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-6EFC44
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Neolithic slate axe, 66mm long, 54mm wide, 16mm thick and weighs 71.98g.
The axe is sub rectangular in form and cross section. It has a very fragmented, damaged surface and was possibly broken during manufacure? It has a rounded, polished blade which is mostly intact, but all other surfaces are damaged.
The object is a pale green/blue colour which may suggest Charnwood slate.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
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Record ID: SUR-C93FEB
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone axe. The broken end has been reworked into two unequal facets, both ground. The object has possibly been reused as a pestle or grinder and is made from close-grained grey rock with a tinge of green.
Created on: Sunday 22nd October 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: SF-145F64
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic flaked an polished flint axe. It is roughly triangular in shape, with largely straight sides and a slightly outwards curving blade end. Both faces are covered with scaled, covering retouch and have been partially polished on the ridges between the flaking scars. The blade end has also been polished to create a sharp cutting edge. There is an abrupt break across the butt end and its tip is missing. The flint is an opaque light grey in colour with some surface patination.
Length: 94.87mm, width: 48.86mm, thickness: 11.93mm, weight: 16.37g
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-438F83
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic (circa 4000BC to 2500BC) incomplete polished stone axe head​.
There is no sign of bore hole or indentation around what appears to be the broken edge of the axe which could indicate this may have been used as a hand axe rather than a tradiational axe with handle.
The majority of the stone surface is mottled but becomes smooth and polished towards the tapered edge.
The stone is speckled an overall dark green and blue colour. Some minute pieces of quartz can also be observed in the right light conditions.
It is possible the stone is a basic igneous rock which has …
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-43462A
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic Langdale axe dating from c. 2500-2100BC. The axe is somewhat worn and abraded with some older damage and a few recent chips taken off. The axe was ground and polished and has a very smooth, shiny surface. It is now of dirty-white/beige colour but was probably dark blueish green to start with. The axe is knapped from a light blueish/grey buff volcanic tuff. This axe is, like many of the larger and finished (polished) Langdale axes, sub-rectangular plan with distinctive humped faces. The axe fragment has been damaged in several areas (old and fresh damage). The recent damage c…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Maryport', grid reference and parish protected.
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