Record ID: LANCUM-2C9346
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic, patinated off white flint, leaf shaped arrow head, fashioned from a secondary flake off a beach pebble. It has been bifacially worked with removals to 80% of its surface. The centre of the ventral appears to retain a polished surface. This may be a fortuitous result of some form of flaking, but there are no sign of conchoidal rippling so this is unlikely to be the result of artificial flaking. There is a central retained patch of cortex on the dorsal side. Dorsal retouch invasive, sub-parallel, low angled; ventral retouch invasive, parallel, low angled. Dates from c3500 to …
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Orton Scar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2B6FA8
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Greenstone polished axe, reworked into waisted form. Polished Group 6 axehead fragment comprising a crescentic cutting edge and c.30mm of the original sides of the axe meeting its ends. Beyond this point, pecking has transformed a probable originally oval form of lentoid section by forming a marked waist or in-swing. This might have facilitated a tied fastening, though its security was perhaps compromised by loss or damage to the butt end, which is probably truncated and certainly fractured. The waisted form recurs on a polished axe dated to between the Later Neolithic and Early Bronz…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.