Record ID: NMS-6159F8
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated axe or adze of extraordinary form and patination, the cutting edge and one side of the butt are damaged, as well as three smaller chips to one lateral edge, these show the flint was originally dark grey/black, the surfaces are now patinated white and dark rusty mottles the darker orange is more pronounced to the dorsal face than the ventral (flatter of the two), the edges and the high points to the flake scars of the flint is breaking down and re-corticating, especially to the paler of the two sides, all flake scars appear to be semi-hard hammer struck and neatly overlap at t…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

• 

  Image not taken

Record ID: ESS-6383C7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed bronze axe. The fragment, part of the blade, is 35mm in length, 42mm in width across the blade and 4mm at its thickest part. It is much abraded, which has lead to the loss of the entire original surface, including the cutting edge.
Created on: Friday 6th October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
No spatial data available.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E38598
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavy butted Neolithic fully ground and polished flint axe, of white patinated flint with a slightly grey inclusions to one face, all surfaces have both spotty iron stains and streaks from contact with agricultural machinery. The axe has been damaged at some point to the cutting edge, it appears that a large flake has initiated at the cutting edge (presumably in use) and has left a “plunging” flake to one face, the flake has terminated in a large step fracture, this is a common feature to axes that have broken in use, like NMS-7AE7C9, NMS-E21D6A and NMS-4EA515, the last t…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-C1D0E2
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement: Part of a Neolithic greenstone axehead, of sub-oval profile (truncated at one end), and lenticular section. The tool is polished on all original surfaces. Neither the blade edge nor the broken edge is still sharp. The stone is a blue-green colour and may be of a particular form of tuff known as 'greenstone', which has its source in Great Langdale (Lake District), Cumbria. Greenstone was particularly well-suited for the manufacture of polished axes and adzes,as well as rougher tools, and as a result greenstone objects were traded extensively across Great Britai…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2008
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-BF3D64
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete very fine and well finished axe of Neolithic to early Bronze Age date. The object has an rounded oval section, which has been ground at one end to form a chamfered blade end. The blade has broken in places, as a result of shallow chips. It is important to notice the polishing striations which have been left behind on the surface of the axe. On the rounded surfaces the striations are longitudinal, where as the striations on the blade section are more irregular and curved. The blade proper has short longitudinal striations, this is where the chipping has occurred. The …
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Ferriby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F32111
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, triangular sectioned blade, soft hammer struck from broken axe; one side of the blade is fully polished and was originally part of the outer surface of the axe, given the curvature of the polished face of this flake it appears it was taken from the curve towards the cutting edge, near to one side of the axe, using the transverse break in the axehead as a platform. Broken axeheads do get used as a core occasionally as they would produce flakes with a polished dorsal surface if they could not be reshaped in to a smaller axe, such as this example: SWYOR-CDDF43. Neolithic, 4,000 to …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9C98C0
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly complete, part polished axe, of orange patinated flint, the grey spots to this face are the coarse inclusions within the flint, the other face is a lighter buff colour, probably due to the chalk or other alkali within the deposits it was lain in, the orange is usually due to exposure to iron oxides in glacial sands, this piece must have been deposited on a chalk/sand change in stratification to acquire the differential patination. The cutting edge is recently damaged on one side, this shows the original colour of the flint to have been mottled light greys. All surfaces are mod…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-81C45E
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic polished flint axehead dating from 4000-2200 BC.  Dimensions: length: 91.77mm; width: 49.83mm; thickness: 25.22mm; weight: 140.83g
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-81C098
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished flint axehead dating from 4000-2200 BC. The axehead has a pointed lozenge shaped cross section.  Dimensions: length: 158mm; width: 64.11mm; thickness: 34.87mm; weight: 456g
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.