Record ID: NLM-084F85
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green Tuff polished axehead fragment. A chip sheared from the cutting edge of a Greenstone Polished Axe, probably Langdale stone Group 6. One edge had been realigned before breakage, and one edge which may have been a cutting edge is atypically broadly angled. The finder kindly comments that the resultant section may indicate the tool had been used as adze rather than axe; this reporter has noted occasional evidence for the reshaping of worn or broken axeheads. Suggested date: Early Neolithic, 3500-2900 BC. Length: 40.9mm, Width: 39.1mm, Thickness: 12.3mm, Weight: 16.89gms.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beltoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-082E64
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Norwegian Schist hone fragment. Rectangular section mullion of schist, worn on all its sides and markedly dished on one of its narrower sides. Broken at both ends. Norwegian honestones from quarries near Telemark came to dominate the English market for sharpening stones throughout the Middle Ages. This object is of an intermediate size between personal hones - often carried suspended - and more unwieldy workshop or kitchen hones .The shape is conferred by the cleavage of the stone along its bedding planes. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500. Length: 93.2mm, Width: 34.2mm, Thickn…
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beltoft', grid reference and parish protected.