Record ID: BERK-742307
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished axe, only the tip survives. The break is old, suggesting that it may have broken during manufacture / final polishing. The flint is light to dark grey in colour and may be from a chalk downland source.
Created on: Friday 9th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinksey Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-F71E06
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished stone axe fragment made of a non-local stone. The axe fragment measures approximately 42mm wide, 45mm long and 15mm thick.
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Rollright', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-A8E873
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint axe (3,500-2,100BC). Cream/pale grey flint with iron staining (this usually indicates the flint originated in the Chilterns). Two small areas of polishing, one on each side, but otherwise flake scars are present on all surfaces. The butt end is slightly rounded and the sides taper gradually before tapering in to the pointed opposite end.
Created on: Monday 11th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goring Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-11D8D1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic handaxe made from a mottled-grey flint. The handaxe has bifacial removals while c.5% cortex remains on the dorsal surface. There is some suggestion that this axe has been polished or smoothed in places, although this may have been caused by water action rather than purposeful grinding / polishing.
Created on: Wednesday 17th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-047CA5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron axe head of uncertain date. The axe has a curved cutting edge and splayed tip, its thickness gradually widening towards the now missing axe butt. Iron axes are notoriously difficult to date when discovered outside of a dated archaeological context as the general form of axes has continued from at least as early as the Roman period (Manning 1976, 3). This example was possibly used as a Woodsman's axe and is likely to date to around the medieval period, probably from the 10th to 16th centuries AD.
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-2731C5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic (c.4000-2100 BC) polished flint axe. The fragment consists of only a portion of the tip.
Created on: Friday 27th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-D20F95
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stout, well made ground and polished flint axe with some flake scars still visible at both the towards butt and blade ends. Both lateral edges are ground to a ridge. It white with spots of orange/brown patina. Neolithic, 4,000 to 2,351 BC. Length: 104.4mm, Width: 53.2mm, Thickness: 23.6, Weight: 181.4
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-D2630D
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete flint axe of Neolithic date (4500 BC – 2000 BC). The implement is a mottled buff/grey colour. It is a pointed oval shape in section. It is symmetrical in plan and is almost symmetrical when viewed from the bladed end. The cutting edge is fairly evenly curved. Both faces have been knapped but cortext survives on one side and around the edge. About half way along this edge is a raised section which has not been finished. Length: 147.6mm, Width: 62.1mm, Thickness: 33.7mm, Weight: 368.2g Length 161mm, width 61mm and 32mm thick. Weight 318g.
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-C8C6EE
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete stone axe of Neolithic date, probably a Group VI Langdale axe. The stone axe has been polished and is grey-green in colour. The axe is made from a fine-grained siliceous tuff, a sedimentary volcanic rock which was orignally deposited in water and is likely to be from the Great Langdale quarries in Cumbria. The axe is damaged, missing most of one side and some of the blade edge on both surfaces. The break may have occured during use, as it appears to originate from the blade end (Alison Roberts pers. comm). c. 4000-2351 BC.
Created on: Thursday 11th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 23rd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-7C827A
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint axe fragment, polished, consisting of the lower part of body and cutting edge. Patina is white with greyish blue interior. Irregular truncation (unpatinated), probably quite recent; Lenticular in cross section with convex cutting edge. Dates to the period -4000 - to -2500 BC. The width at the truncation is 46.95mm and the thickness of 14.82mm was taken at the mid-point. Other measurements shown below.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.