Record ID: SF-A7FA87
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint scraper of Neolithic to early Bronze Age date. A crude scraper created on a sub-oval tertiary flake. Small amounts of scaled, abrupt, short retouch along each side and the distal edge of the dorsal face. Mottled, medium patination on both faces and a small amount of orange staining on the dorsal face. Medium hard hammer.  Length: 47.53mm, width: 39.15mm, thickness: 15.14mm, weight: 30.01g
Created on: Friday 19th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FC7243
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint scraper of Neolithic to early Bronze Age date. A small sub-oval tertiary flake. Long, sub-parallel, abrupt and semi-abrupt retouch along the curved distal edge of the dorsal face. It has been burnt at some stage. Length: 31.86mm, width: 22.97mm, thickness: 8.15mm, weight: 6.09g
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FC3613
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint scraper of Neolithic to early Bronze Age date. A roughly D-shaped flattened tertiary flake. Short, scaled, abrupt retouch along the curved distal edge and right edge of the dorsal face. A small amount of further short, scaled, low angle retouch along the right edge of the ventral face has removed the cortex here suggesting that it took place at a stage much later than the initial maufacture. Patchy medium to heavy white patination and orange staining in places on both faces. Length: 39.90mm, width: 35.01mm, thickness: 6.02mm, weight: 18.30g
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8DA279
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic finely worked polished stone axehead. It is an elongated sub-triangular shape and oval in cross-section, with straight slightly outwards curving sides, a narrow, rounded butt and a blade end that curves outwards only very slightly. It is composed of a coarse-grained basic intrusive rock that has probably undergone metamorphism, speckled white and blue-grey in colour. There is a patch of orange-brown straining on one face. It survives in good condition with only a small amount of damage to the butt end. Dr Emily Banfield (pers. com.) kindly comments …
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EA86A1
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage consisting of ten tertiary flint flakes (debitage) of the Neolithic / Early Bronze Age period dating to 4000 - 1601 BC. The blades are roughly triangular or trapezoidal in shape, and have been manufactured from a dark grey or in one case mid grey flint; there are no signs of edge retouch though on some longitudinal trike marks of blade removal are visible; the majority have small striking platforms. The cortex is not retained on any of the flints.  Length: max 60.34mm; min 20.16mm Width at widest part: max 40.11mm; min 16.44 …
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Covehithe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-06987A
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three retouched flint flakes of uncertain Mesolithic to early Bronze Age date.  1. L - 31.04 , W - 39.01, Thickness - 7.18, Weight - 8.47g - Irregular secondary flake with patches of short, abrupt, scaled retouch along each side and the distal end. Light patination in places. 2. L - 26.30, W - 47.45, Thickness - 7.27, Weight - 9.49g - Terttiary flake/blade. Abrupt break across proximal end. Small amounts of crude retouch along each side. Opaque orange flint.  3. L - 88.06, W - 38.36, Thickness - 7.18, Weight - 25.52g - Large, pointed, irregularly-shaped tertiary …
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Covehithe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8330D4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Middle to Late Neolithic flint scraper dating to circa 4000-2200 BC. The scraper has been shaped from a secondary flake. There is partial patination on the dorsal face. Short, parallel, abrupt retouch along the distal end and left mesal of the dorsal face.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D0026F
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probable Neolithic to Early Bronze Age lithic implement dating to circa 4000-1600 BC. Made on a tertiary flake, it is sub-ovate in plan and plano-convex in section. At one end is a pointed edge. Negative scaring on the dorsal face indicates the that the the tool was constructed through further knapping and probable functioned as a piercer, using for creating holes in leather or wood. 
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chevington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F5FB2D
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic flaked flint axehead dating to circa 4000-2000 BC. It is an elongated oval shape in plan, broadly flame-shaped and sub-oval in section. It has bifacially invasive, scaled, low-angled retouch on both faces with with the distal end having been polished on both faces. The butt-end is pointed. The flint is opaque white on one face and a translucent white-grey on the other with a small area of white patination in the centre. There are faint traces of iron staining along one edge.
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-89D089
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint retouched blade of uncertain Mesolithic to early Bronze Age date. A short, pointed secondary blade with a small amount of cortex still remaining along the left edge of the dorsal face. It has a narrow butt and prominent bulb of percussion suggesting that it was struck with a hard hammer. There is a small amount of crude, short, low angle retouch along the left edge of the ventral face and a notch to the right of the distal end - the latter may be post-deposition damage. The flint is a light grey colour with light surface patination and a very small amoun…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.