Record ID: LVPL-24B528
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Reddish brown flint blade. Probably local to the area where it was found, originating from the glacial clay or perhaps river gravels. It is a by-product of the shaping of a larger irregular lump of flint, so that regular shaped pieces can be taken off it to work into tools. The longer than narrow, parallel sided shape is characterised as a blade. In some circumstances the blades are then 'retouched' by finely working the edge in a deliberate way to produce tools or sometimes they can be just used as they are without further working, for cutting or scraping. This one does not betra…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-8F7963
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blade like flint flake that is Mesolithic in date. The flake is sub rectangular with retouch on one face. The object is brown/black in colour and weighs 1.8g. The flake measures 31.62mm in length, 12.16mm in width and 3.52mm in thickness. This is the kind of flake that could have been knapped to produce microlith blades, hence the Mesolithic date.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-8D7E04
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of flint that probably date to the Mesolithic period. The flint fragments have come from a core that was used to produce blades. This is evident from a ridge down one side of the fragment. One of the fragments is white/speckled blue in colour, weighing 2.5g and measuring 33.76mm in length and 13.70mm in width. There is some evidence of recent plough marks around the perimeter. The other fragment is blue in colour, weighing 1.6g and measuring 20.87mm in length and 12.51mm in width. There is evidence of recent breaks around the perimeter of the fragment.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FDD852
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A dark brown flint scraper dating to the late Mesolithic to early Neolithic 6500 - 2100BC. The dorsal side is mainly cortical and has lots of conchoidal curves suggesting a lot of retouching. The ventrical side has a large, prominent bulb of percussion closer to one side of proximal end. The proximal end is rounded on the side closer to the bulb of percussion and slightly jagged on the side further from the bulb of percussion (not the distal though). The butt is flat and clean. The distal end seems to have snapped off as the end is clean and flat. This suggests that it was once part o…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boroughbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-90C3C7
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint core, nearly worked out. This high quality brown/black flint has been used to produce microliths, probably for use in composite tools. Length 28mm, width 25mm, height 23mm. Dates between c8300 BC and c2900 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boroughbridge', grid reference and parish protected.