Record ID: SWYOR-856181
Object type: MACE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a perforated stone mace head or pebble hammer. It was broken in antiquity irregularly through the shaft hole, which is cylindrical and approximately 12 - 15mm 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, as well as cracked. It is almost lozenge shaped in section and a pointed oval in plan. The stone is probably quartzite and is a light yellow grey colour. An important clue to its age is given by the fact that the shaft hole is drilled and not …
Created on: Friday 13th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-7F2742
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three undated stone whetstones, all are incomplete - missing their ends, have a rectangular section and rectangular form and show signs of heavy use. 1 56mm long, 11mm thick and 20mm wide, weight 32.07grams. 2 90mm long, 17mm thick and 33mm wide weight 117grams 3 90mm long, 20mm thick and 27mm wide, weight 99.3grams.
Created on: Friday 13th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2012
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Record ID: NARC-6F2B26
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ground and polished Langdale axehead. Made from an Igneous green stone which is probably sourced from the Lake District, Cornwall or Wales. The side facets are polished. The butt end is broken away and the blade edge and one side are chipped,most likely caused post-depostion rather than ancient use-wear. One face is slightly flattened, while the opposite face has more deliberate flattening. The broken butt end is worn, suggesting an old break. Dr. Tom Brindle writes: "Grinding occurs after 4000 BC, so this axe is likely to have a date range of between 4000-2500 BC…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
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Record ID: LVPL-6A74D6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone spindle whorl which is circular in plan probably dating to the Medieval period, (1100-1500). It is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The object has a central circular perforation which has been drilled from each side. The object measures 33.11mm in diameter, 7.32mm in thickness and weighs 12.0g. The diameter of the internal perforation is 7.68mm. The object consists of a light greyish-brown rough stone. Spindle whorls were used from the Roman through to the Post-Medieval period. Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlewich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-2D19E3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a whetstone. The stone was presumably once elongated but only the terminal remains. The terminal is oval in cross-section and has hole drilled through it for suspension. The stone is a fine grey material. Probably medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saltfleetby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CPAT-1D6951
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A grey, stone spindle-whorl decorated with incised lines radiating from the central hole (for the wooden spindle). It's condition is worn and one or 2 pieces have flaked away from the surface. Its overall diameter is 46mm, and the central hole is 10mm. Difficult to date, spindle-whorls having been used from prehistory up into the post-medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2013
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Record ID: CAM-C4EBB3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An oval shaped stone with a flattened base, that has a roughly circular perforation through the centre. The perforation is set at 90 degrees from the flattened base and has a diameter of 4.68mm. The stone weighs 3.68g, has an oval diameter of 17.63mm x 14.46mm and height of 13.94mm. Discussion: Stones can have naturally occurring cylindrical perforations if the stone has formed around another item such as Belamite fossils. The stone can then be eroded and weathered into pebbles that fortuitously resemble beads and therefore makes identification difficult. Dr Kevin Leahy identifi…
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Etton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BB5F75
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small piece of Lakeland green slate that has had a hole drilled near the centre of the top edge. The hole is now incomplete and probably broke during manufacture as the slate is only crudely dressed. The marks from the boring show that the hole was an 'hourglass' hole. It may have been intended as one of a series of drilled objects to be used on a necklace, bracelet or similar. Date is uncertain (c2500BC-c800BC) but Castlerigg circle is in the vicinity so a Bronze Age date seems likely. Measures 18.5x12.5x4mm. Weighs 1.2 grms.
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Castlerigg', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-600F57
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Neolithic polished stone axehead (3500 BC-2100 BC). This axehead is an elongated oval-shape in plan, pointed-oval in side view and oval in cross-section. In plan the sides are slightly convex. They flare out and down from the butt and then taper inwards towards the evenly curved cutting edge. The surfaces are coarse and pitted but are smoother at the front and rear close to the cutting edge. It has a mottled buff/orange/grey surface. However, where recent breaks have occurred, the inside is dark grey. The cutting edge is sharp. 132.39 x 54.01 x 32.68mm. Weight…
Created on: Sunday 18th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8B8C31
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone spindle whorl which is circular in plan. The object has a central circular perforation which has been drilled from each side. The object is 34.34mm in diameter and 13.11mm thick. The central perforation has a diameter of 10.68mm. The object weighs 21.6g. It is dark grey in colour. Spindle whorls were used from the Roman through to the Post-Medieval period. Egan (Egan G. 1998 The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450 Museum of London, London, The Stationary Office) in his discussion (p. 255 ff) about spindle whorls, comments that the cheaper, possibly home-made cer…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-5FC6A4
Object type: TOMB
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete rectangular fragment of worked white marble, probably from the outside of a mausoleum or tomb structure, of Roman dating (1st to 4th Centuries AD). The fragment consists of a rectangular piece of marble, with three smooth sides and three irregular sides (old breaks where it has broken off from a larger piece of marble). It measures 55.25mm in length, 41.44mm wide and 18.03mm thick. It weighs 99.14 grams. Roger White (University of Birmingham) has identified this as a fragment of marble from the outside of a mausoleum or similar tomb structure. It was found from alo…
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
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Record ID: HESH-5F6FE3
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six (6) sub cuboid white stone probable tesserae. Each tessera consists of a sub cuboid shape, made out of a light grey fine grained limestone type stone. One surface of each tessera appears to be slightly polished which is the result of being walked over. The other surfaces are rough and irregular in shape. The measurements of the tesserae are as follows: 1. 26.53mm in length, 14.60mm wide & 14.95mm thick. It weighs 12.06 grams. 2. 20.96mm in length, 18.25mm wide & 14.89mm thick. It weighs 10.47 grams. 3. 20.39mm in length, 20.66mm wide & 19.56mm thick. It weighs 17.54 grams…
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2012
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Record ID: WMID-0F8192
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A knapped / worked fragment from a possible polished Axehead, of probable Late Neolithic dating (3000 to 2100 BC). The possible axe fragment is sub rectangular in plan, with a sub oval cross section. Approximately 50% of the possible axehead fragment are present, consisting of the blade end. Signs of abrasion / plough roll are present on the majority of the surfaces. The possible axehead fragment measures 53.37mm in length, 43.96mm wide and 18.5mm thick. It weighs 52.8 grams.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-0E2D27
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible unfinished hanging weight of uncertain date. The object is sub-oval in plan and oval in cross-section. One side of the object has a deep circular depression measuring 9.06mm in diameter. The object is toffee brown in colour.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Washingborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-75F102
Object type: INGOT MOULD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brown ferruginous fine grained Sandstone possible ingot mould. Fragment of rock crudely shaped by the cleavage of flakes from its sides and base, probably adapting a naturally formed shape. The upper surface bears an oval depression of length 54mm, width 24mm and depth 24mm; the base of this hollow is slightly paler and duller than other surfaces. Though this cavity might be fortuitously formed, as by a fossil bivalve shell, its regularity may hints at artificial origin or improvement. Such objects were often improvised: a Viking Age example from Lurk Lane, Beverley was made from a fr…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: CORN-586162
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete axehead roughout made from a gabbroic greenstone cobble that is finer grained and more doleritic than other examples from this area. The interrelationship between the weathering, fracture and possible grinding of the cobble are very complex. The butt end is rounded and damaged, and the blade end has completely worn away so that the roughout is now waisted and narrower at the blade end, where it tapers to a point in profile. Half of the ventral face is also missing, where a section has sheared off and left a stepped projection towards the butt end of the roughout. Several fla…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-581964
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken blade end of an axehead roughout of coarse gabbroic greenstone, U-shaped in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and oval in section. There is a defined yet damaged cutting edge at the blade end, and the entire surface is deeply pitted and weathered. The roughout is broken in half so that the butt end is missing. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or Trungle Moor in Paul parish. A few of these have distinct areas where grinding has been carried out to start a blade. The remainder have a broadly axe-shaped…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-57D263
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gabbroic greenstone cobble, triangular in plan and in profile and circular in section. The piece is broken at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, and there is a large spur projecting from the broken end at one edge, which seems to have formed naturally into two concentric protrusions. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or Trungle Moor in Paul parish…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-5748D6
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gabbroic greenstone cobble, triangular in plan and in profile and circular in section. The piece is broken at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, and there is a rectangular flake that has been removed from the broken end at one edge, which may be more recent damage. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or Trungle Moor in Paul parish. A few of t…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-56FD36
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gabbroic greenstone cobble, triangular in plan and in profile and ovoid in section. The piece is broken at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, and there is a large spur projecting from the broken end at one edge, which may be harder material to grind down flat, or perhaps why the axe broke at this point. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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