Record ID: NMS-F78EB4
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Mesolithic or Neolithic mace head or pebble hammer, measuring 137mm in diameter at its maximum and 61mm thick. It was probably made on an oval natural cobble, bored centrally by pecking and polishing to give an hour-glass shaped perforation 43mm wide at the surface and 23mm wide at its narrowest. The cobble is abraded in four places around its circumference. This is an unusually large example of a shaft-hole tool that is difficult to date as most examples are surface finds and without associated datable material. This example was found around 1970, while ditch-digging.
Created on: Monday 20th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-634A82
Object type: MACE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A stone mace head fragment, 56mm in diameter with a residual length of 56mm. This mace head is probably of the ovoid or pestle type and was broken in antiquity irregularly through the shaft hole, which is cylindrical and approximately 21mm in diameter. The shaft hole has been drilled from each side, meeting about halfway across, with the second bore slightly misaligned. The stone is heavily weathered and pitted, with the domed end also showing signs of abrasion. The fragment was found in about 1980 while ploughing. An important clue to its age is given by the fact that the shaft…
Created on: Monday 13th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garveston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-22EDB6
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a rotary quernstone. The piece represents part of the outer edge of a circular quernstone. The remaining curvature suggests that this is from a hand-operated quern of between 0.5m and 1m diameter. A portion of the flat grinding surface remains at the top; the underside is irregular and may be damaged. The material employed is a coarse-grained gritstone in which occasional gravel-sized particles are contained within a sandy matrix. This stone is not found locally and has probably been imported from elsewhere in the country. The fragment measures up to 38.5mm wi…
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-FB7212
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible whetstone of unknown date. It is sub-oval in plan with rounded edges. It is a rounded oval in cross-section also with all edges rounded. It is made from a brown-grey stone. There are linear grooves on all the surfaces, possibly caused by sharpening tools. It is difficult to say that this is definitely a whetstone as natural stones could be used for this purpose without much working to make them suitable, this appears to be in that group.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 15th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-F78873
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone or hone with a copper-alloy suspension loop attached, most likely to be of medieval date. The stone itself is grey in colour with fine micaeous inclusions, it is rectangular in shape and flaring in width towards its terminal, it is now fragmentary due to breaks, all surviving surfaces have grooves and striations on them, persumably created through use. The complete end of the hone has a complete suspension loop attached to it, this consists of a piece of copper-alloy which has rectangular terminal ends and a narrower rectangular loop in its centre. Each rect…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Covehithe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E2E804
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy miniture dagger. It has a pointed blade, with a trapizoidal shape hilt. One side of the guard has broken. There are horizontal grooves across the dagger. date unknown. 21.24mm L x 6.99mm W x 2.19mm T 1.0g
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-7BE356
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is broadly tear-shaped and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if the axe was completed - the outer surface is smooth and looks polished and one side shows the characteristic vertically knapped edge. However, it looks as if the axe was discarded before it was finished. The chips missing from the sides and the surface show old wear and it is unlikely that it was ever completed and/or used. The rough-out is knapped from a greenish/grey buff volcanic tuff. This…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7B5502
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular weight, probably dating from the medieval period, i.e. c. AD1200-1500. The weight was made from a grainy greyish granite. It is almost perfectly circular in shape and has a small central perforation. Because of its size it is likely that it was either used for spinning and very thick and heavy yarn or else, it could have been used as a loom or fishing net weight. The dating to the medieval period is very likely as similar examples from excavated contexts show.
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-79B9A5
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly an almost complete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is very long and heavy and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if, after the stone had been chosen, the knapper started to make the axe, but never exceeded the rough-out stage. There is no sign of finished or polished edges or surface and the sides taper to a point rather than the vertically knapped edge that finished Langdale axes have. One of the ends was either not worked at all, or broke off at some point shortly before or after the rough-out was…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-799F15
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is very long and heavy and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if, after the stone had been chosen, the knapper started to make the axe, which never went further than the rough-out state. There is no sign of finished or polished edges or surface and the sides taper to a point rather than the vertically knapped edge that finished Langdale axes have. Clearly, the rough-out was discarded before it was finished for unknown reason. The chips missing from the sides…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-508FE3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of sandstone, a non-local stone, of uncertain function and date. It is a crude quadrilateral shape in plan and rectangular in cross-section. It has smooth surfaces so may have acted as a hone or wall veneer from a Roman building (Helen Rees pers. comm. November 2010). It is a dull mid-brown colour with some blackened patches as a result of burning.
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Headbourne Worthy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E9FB63
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete hone stone of uncertain date. It is formed from a grey/brown stone that has fine surfaces with traces of micaceous inclusions. The hone rectangular in form and section, tapering slightly towards the suspension end, and is missing the top of the suspension end and lower half of the object due to old breaks. At the suspension end are the remains of an incised transverse groove above which on opposing sides of the hone are drilled circular perforations/indentations that do ot perforate all the way through the object. These were probably utilised to secure the hone to a thon…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakenheath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-BC5DC6
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman stone fragment from a rotary quern dating AD43-410. This is part of the lower stone of a hand turned quern made from volcanic lavastone from the Mayen-Niedermendig area of the Eifel Hills region of Germany. The fragment includes part of the outer edge and the inner edge to the spindle. The lower surface is pecked and the upper surface and the outer edge are dressed with lined tooling. On the upper surface the lined tooling comprises sections of diagonal parallel lines, spaced 2-3mm apart, and the sections are off-set against each other. On the outer edge there are vertica…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 25th November 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-26E506
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a perforated stone object, disc shaped with a flattened oval section 35.4 x 16.0mm. Hole, 22.3mm diameter chipped through centre, hour-glass type perforation. The object is irregularly shaped and has suffered much damage, only half survives and one face of this half is missing. Stone fine grained with some particles of angular quartz. It likely to be a quartz dolerite from the Whin Sill which would suggest a late Neolithic - early Bronze Age date. The exterior of the object is light brown, the interior mid grey.
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 25th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Driffield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CF9FB4
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Green volcanic stone, from the Lake District (non-specialist identification by MF) Axe. A Greenstone axe presumed to be of Group VI (6), a product of the Langdale Pike axe factory, produced as an oval rough-out and finished by fine polishing which emphasises natural banding of the stone to striking decorative effect. The axe was originally of oval section, tapered towards its butt end and broader at the blade, and would be hafted for use. Use and re-polishing has left an angled blade, which retains its cutting edge. Both sides of the axe have also been reworked and highly p…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waddingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-AA5D02
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and stone weight or gaming piece probably dating to the Early Medieval period, (400-1066AD). The object consists of an oval or sub-oval stone which has been cast in lead leaving the top of the stone exposed. The base of the object is uneven with a rounded projection preventing it from standing flat. The top edges of the lead are irregular and broken. On one side of the object a V shape has been moulded into the lead. The lead has a light white patina and the stone is a pinkish-white. Objects of this form have been identified as either weights or playing pieces; in the latter ca…
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilstone Fearnall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A780B0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Buff Coloured medium compacted Sandstone (non-specialist identification by MF). Whetstone. Tapered hone of square section, carefully shaped and smoothed by use on all four sides, chipped at its narrow end and broken at the other. Either point-sharpening grooves or, more likely, post-depositional damage, occurs on one flat face; one aris also bears damage post-dating use of the object. The rectangular form is common for Roman hones, but continued in use - as perhaps did some of the same hones - into the Anglo-Saxon period. At this later period, large and carefully shaped hones,…
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-820ED7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A whetstone pendant. The pendant is rectangular in plan and square in cross-section. The terminal has a triangular apex and has a circular hole through it. Probably Medieval.
Created on: Monday 8th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saltfleetby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-814418
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconical stone spindlewhorl. The whorl is made from a grey coloured sandstone or limestone.
Created on: Monday 8th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-E81E20
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age beehive quern, 155mm high and 270mm in diameter at its base. The object represents the upper part of a Hunsbury type beehive quern. It has roughly carved tapering sides with a sub rectangular hole in its side to take a handle and a hole in its base for the grain to pass through. It is probably made from Derbyshire millstone grit and was found in garden in Brixworth, Northants. The object was in-situ when the house was purchased so its original location is unknown.
Created on: Monday 1st November 2010
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2020
Spatial data recorded.