Record ID: NLM-18B1B7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Pale buff sedimentary stone - possibly a fine grained limestone - unidentified object. Trapezoid object with five flat faces and one longer side which is stepped in three stages, the latter probably a natural formation. The material appears unsuitable to serve as a whetstone, a function which the rectilinear form might otherwise admit, and none of the surfaces are so smoothed as to suggest this was used as a rubbing or polishing stone. A broad date range is offered to include the most likely periods for the [often improvised] use of such stone objects. This could originally have been …
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 12th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-184B06
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Stone polished axehead fragment. Pale green fine grained compact stone, probably a volcanic tuf. This is an abraded chip from a polished stone axe, probably Group 6 and the material probably Greenstone from Langdale, Cumbria. The curved end of the fragment suggests the chip is from the side of the crescentic cutting edge. Suggested date: Early Neolithic, 4000-3500 BC. Length: 39.6mm, Width: 43.3mm, Thickness: 10.1mm, Weight: 19.17gms.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 12th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.