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Record ID: SOM-5DF18C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One scraper made on a thin secondary flake of slightly mottled dark grey flint with a well-developed bulb of percussion and a break along the distal part of one margin, which additionally carries a small area of worn nodule cortex. The distal end and distal part of one margin have been modified by irregular abrupt retouch to form a rough working edge. Unpatinated, and in moderately sharp condition. Neolithic or Bronze Age.
27.5mm long, 23.7mm wide, 5.4mm thick and weighs 4.19g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4B24AD
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of debitage which is probably of Neolithic, mainly Early Neolithic date with some possibly Mesolithic material. Total weight 33.72g.
Nine unmodified waste flakes (five secondary, four tertiary), all in mottled mid-dark grey flint with paler grey inclusions. Three are broken, with distal ends absent. Some exhibit evidence for core-edge preparation and all are relatively thin and elongate with negligible or weakly formed bulbs of percussion suggestive of use of a relatively soft percussor. As such they are (as a group) unlikely to post-date the earlier part of the Neolithic…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4B0A88
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tranchet arrowhead made across the distal end of a thin blade or blade- flake (width 19mm) of marbled mid-mid-light grey flint. Both the flared, irregular cutting edge and the narrower butt comprise original sharp flake edges; both incurved margins have been formed using irregular abrupt dorsal retouch (from ventral face). Probably Neolithic in date. 23.7mm long, 4.5mm thick, 19mm wide, 1.77g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4AC733
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three blades/bladelet, comprising one parallel-sided prismatic (trapezoidal- to triangular cross-section) blade in mid greyish and brownish grey flint, with a small bulb of percussion and well-prepared platform edge – possibly the result of indirect percussion ; and two smaller, thinner and less regular bladelets (one secondary, with a fillet of thin worn nodule cortex along part of one margi; and broken, and lacking its distal end) both made in dark or mid-dark grey flint. All are unmodified, but there are small areas of post-depositional edge-damage. Unpatinated and in moderately…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4AB4A2
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick secondary waste flake of mottled mid-light to pale grey flint with part of a banded fossil inclusion. There is almost no bulb of percussion, and the flake may have been struck through the chalky cortex adhering to part of the dorsal surface. One margin has an area of possible slight abrupt retouch, but this is more plausibly post-depositional damage. Unpatinated and in slightly worn, battered condition. Neolithic – Bronze Age. 41.2mm long, 31.2mm wide, 14.5mm thick and weighs 19.72g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4A9B1D
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Retouched flake made on a formerly elongated flake of mottled mid- to pale brownish grey flint with a slight bulb of percussion and a triangular cross-section. There is minor post-depositional damage to the ventral face of the margins, and the distal end has been lost to a break, one margin has steep, irregular, semi-invasive dorsal retouch (from the ventral face), possibly for purposes of blunting. Unpatinated, slightly worn. Neolithic – Bronze Age. 21.6mm long, 17.5mm wide, 6.3mm thick and weighs 2.83g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4A929B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four flint scrapers, all of Neolithic or earlier Bronze Age date.
Small ‘thumbnail’ type made on a squat primary flake of dark grey flint with worn, thin light brown/buff cortex on the dorsal face and a well-developed bulb of percussion. Striking of the flake has detached a small secondary area of the butt on the dorsal face. The distal end of the flake has been modified with irregular semi-invasive- then abrupt dorsal retouch (from the ventral face) to form a curvilinear working edge (possibly showing some post-depositional damage). Both flake margins remain unmodified. …
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4A6BE5
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leaf-shaped bifacial knife or unfinished arrowhead preform, made on a secondary flake of mid-dark brownish grey flint with areas of worn nodule cortex on the dorsal face. The ventral face has been modified around almost its entire edge by irregular semi-invasive retouch, leaving a minority of the original flake surface intact. On the dorsal face, only the distal half has been worked with irregular invasive retouch.
47.2mm long, 24.9mm wide, 7.3mm thick and weighs 8.72g.
The longitudinal cross-section remains markedly asymmetrical (following the incurve of the original flake…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4A570C
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oblique arrowhead made on a flake of mid-light grey-brown flint. One long edge has been bifacially worked obliquely across the flake, with irregularly pressure flaked semi-invasive retouch on the dorsal face and more abrupt retouch on the ventral face and a slight ‘inturn’ of this margin toward the butt-end. The butt has irregular semi-invasive retouch on the dorsal face only, and the remaining long edge comprises sharp, unmodified flake edge. Unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition.
25.3mm long, 18.0mm wide, 4.1mm thick and weighs 1.53g.
Typologically attributable…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-4A2168
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One parallel-sided blade (broken, distal end absent) in fine-grained pale grey-brown Greensand Chert. Triangular cross-section. Unmodified. Unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition.
47.3mm long, 19.3mm wide and 6.9mm thick, 6.85g in weight.
Potentially earlier Neolithic in date.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOM-478FC1
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five pieces of worked flint all found in the same area and recorded as a group.
3 x unmodified secondary waste flakes, all bearing traces of worn nodule cortex: two (one each in dark brownish grey and slightly marbled mid- to mid-light grey flint) are irregular, possibly resulting from initial dressing and regularisation of nodules for knapping; the third is a smaller, thinner flake of mid- greyish brown translucent flint with cortex remaining at its distal end. All are unpatinated and in moderately sharp condition
1 x tertiary flake in dark brownish grey, representing the d…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Emborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-AD5225
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of flint debitage, probably of Neolithic to Bronze Age date, although a later, Iron Age date cannot be ruled out, 4000 BC to 40 AD.
One is a tertiary flake struck off a platform with evidence of previous removals in the same direction and slight damage chipping along one edge. The second is a secondary piece with cortext along one side and is a fragment from a large blade, the distal and proximal ends of which are missing. Both are stuck from mottled, mid-grey flint and weigh 4.61g in total.
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Montacute', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOM-E8503A
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two retouched flint flakes / small blades of later Mesolithic or Neolithic date. The pieces are both made from translucent dark brown-grey flint, one slightly paler, and are secondary pieces with small amounts of cortext at their distal ends on their dorsal faces. Both have prominent bulbs of percussion on the ventral face and breaks at the proximal end where the platform should be. Both also have evidence for multiple parallel previous blade removals from the same platform.
The paler piece has short, scalar, semi-abrupt retouch down the entire left edge (on the dorsal face) and t…
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOM-E7E1C3
Object type: BORER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Bronze Age flint awl or borer dating to 3300 to 1000 BC. The piece is made on a tertiary flake with a prominent bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The ripples and aris from previous removals on the dorsal face suggest the flint core was worked in at least two directions. Short semi-abrupt scalar retouch runs around the distal end and the left edge on the dorsal face. This left edge has been shaped by retouch into a distinct projecting slightly blunt ended point for boring holes in wood or hides. The piece is 21.9mm long, 24.1mm wide including the projecting poin…
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOM-E7B237
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic polished flint axehead, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The surviving fragment is sub-trapezoidal in plan and pointed oval in cross section. At both ends it terminates in an irregular break and chips also extend into the sides. Clear striations from polishing survive on both faces of the axehead. The flint is mainly opaque white with some areas of more translucent pale grey and patches of orange iron staining from post-deposition processes.
Dimensions: length 47.7mm; width 29.8mm; thickness 15.9mm; weight 29.32g.
The size suggests this is from near …
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-555FFE
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper of probable Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date, c. AD 2700-1000. The scraper is worked from a secondary flake of opaque dark grey flint mottled with paler inclusions with a small amount of cortex remaining in the centre of the dorsal face. The flake widens from the proximal to the distal end. A striking platform with a bulb of percussion on the ventral face survives at the proximal end. Negative removal scars from hinged removals from the same platform are present on the dorsal face. The flake is worked unifacially, struck from the ventral face, with relatively long, ab…
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-2B3BA4
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped gun-flint from a flintlock musket of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600 - 1900.
The flint is broadly square in plan and is of the classic wedge shape in section. Short scaled semi-abrupt to abrupt retouch is present around three sides becoming longer in the centres of the left and right sides, the thin end of the wedge shape being left as struck. the large bulb of percussion survives, forming one angle of the wedge with the striking platform as the other. The flint is translucent dark grey with paler mottling.
28.9mm long, 23.7mm wide, 9.6mm thick and 7.29g in we…
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-07454C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint end scraper of probably Bronze Age date, 2200-1000 BC. The scraper is made on a thick secondary flake struck of a previous removal with a large area of cortex, inclusing an indent, remaining down on side. The flint is mottled mid-grey with lighter areas. The percussion waves on the platform and the scars from previous removals on the dorsal face suggest this was struck off a multi-platform core. There is a very large bulb of percussion on the ventral face. There is long, semi-parallel, semi abrupt retouch around the distal end on the dorsal face. There is damage and chipping, po…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Whitelackington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-1F4073
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The distal end of a flint scraper of Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age date. The piece is a secondary flake in black translucent flint with some cortex remaining on one side. There is an irregular snap at the proximal end. The aris and scars on the dorsal face suggest repeated blade removals from the same direction. There is invasive, parallel semi-abrupt retouch at the distal end on the dorsal face becoming shallower towards the centre. There is long, scalar semi-abrupt retouch down the right edge on the ventral face. This may suggest the piece was reused or had double use as a side and…
Created on: Friday 18th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Withycombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-1F15C5
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One retouched flint blade of probably Mesolithic date. The blade is a tertiary piece with evidence in the form of aris and scars on the dorsal face for previous parallel removals from the same platform. There is a very small bub of percussion at the proximal end. The distal end is snapped at an angle. A notch adjacent to this snap suggests it was deliberate and part of the process of making microliths. It is made in mid grey opaque flint with pale mottling and 32.6mm long, 15.6mm wide, 4.7mm thick and weighs 2.36g.
Created on: Friday 18th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Withycombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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