Record ID: SOM-919961
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Forty eight pieces of flint debitage. Flint from a range of sources including pebble and nodule flint. Colours from translucent buff to dark grey-black including mottled pieces (possibly some from weathering). A few have evidence of burning and many have frost damage and natural damage as well as deliberate working. Only sixteen are secondary pieces with no primary pieces, the remaining thirty two pieces are tertiary with no cortex. At least ten (the top three rows in group 1) are the product of a blade industry showing fine parallel removals of narrow pieces off a prepared core altho…
Created on: Thursday 24th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8E07C1
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, unpatinated bifacially worked flint knife of later Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date. It is struck from a mottled grey/brown flint and is snapped at the butt end. The knife is plano-convex in cross section, expanding from the butt end to the crescentic cutting edge. Both faces have extensive and neat flake removal with large areas at the butt end of one face and the blade end of the other that are left unworked. On one face of the cutting edge the red/brown cortex of the flint has been deliberately left in place with the opposite face neatly retouched. The entire objec…
Created on: Thursday 24th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ashfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8DABF7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A re-used polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is struck from a grey flint that has mottled grey to brown staining. The blade end of the axe survives and is pointed oval shaped in cross section with worn crescentic cutting edge. Both faces and the sides of the fragment have the remains of polished surfaces and some flake removal. Where the axe begins to expand towards the butt end it terminates in old breaks that have had further flake removal in antiquity, the fragment seemingly re-worked for use as a differing implement, perhaps a simple cutting tool, scraper or similar. It meas…
Created on: Thursday 24th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monks Eleigh', grid reference and parish protected.