Record ID: NARC-CE63C6
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone axehead. Oval shaped in section, the rounded but and blade ends are missing. One side has laminated away, and a large section missing from approximately 50% of the opposite side. The widest edge is 62mm and the narrowest end is 46mm. It is 11mm thick and 102mm long. It weighs 154.6g. This is possibly a Graig Lwyd Group VII axe, due to the the white speckle on a blue-grey matrix that is typical of that rock type.
Created on: Friday 11th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 11th May 2012
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Record ID: NMS-B7AF84
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axehead. Pointed oval section, rounded butt expanding with slightly convex sides to a curved cutting edge from which a large recent chip is missing. Polished over most of the surface, large chip / damage on one face at butt end. Length 192mm. Maximum width 79.5mm. Maximum thickness 46mm. From photographs, John Williams, National Museum Wales, comments "I'm pretty certain it is a Graig Lwyd Group VII axe - the patina looks the type and more important the fresh scalp has the white speckle on a blue-grey matrix that is typical of the rock type. Confirmation would have to be by …
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentraeth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-924BC2
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Volcanic Tufa, probably Langdale Greenstone, polished axe fragment. Splinter from the cutting edge of a greenstone polished axe head, probably Group 6, comprising an area spalled from one face, and a very limited extent from the adjacent face. The angle between the faces is unusually sharp. This may indicate manufacture or use as an adze, for which a different action is required - this suggestion was kindly offered by Brian Kearsley. Alternatively, it may arise from heavy wear, or from the previous breakage and reshaping of an axe-head. Suggested date: Neolithic, 3500-2100 BC. Le…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-A52C63
Object type: ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large middle to late Neolithic axehead roughout made from a Cumbrian Group VI Langdale tuff dating from ca. 3500-2500BC. The roughout is in very good condition, with only little modern damage. It had been found by a farmer in a field and used as a doorstop on the farm for several decades. The roughout is thin-butted, double convex in section and has one crudely rounded and one almost rectangular end: the latter one would have been shaped into the blade. It expands in plan from both the butt and the blade end to reach its maximum width about midway along its length. Other recor…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sunderland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-8DC9F7
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Neolithic stone polished, banded perforated object or 'mace-head' dating c. 2,900 - 2,100BC. The mace-head is rectangular in plan with rounded ends and an oval cross-section. There is an hour-glass perforation located approximately one third along its length. The carving of the mace-head has been worked so the natural banding of the stone forms transverse stripes. When the mace-head was discovered it was covered in, as the finder describes it, a limescale concretion which came off as he rubbed his thumb over it. This was probably Thames 'race'. There is a patch of black near the dis…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: LON-7F3887
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete neolithic ground/polished stone axe. The axe is a flattened hexagon in section, with each ridge polished down towards a pointed oval shape and fully polished on both sides. The axe has suffered from various damage and losses; at the butt there is a recent chip but also an older removal or chip, which has been polished over in antiquity. At other end, the cutting edge has been completely removed in one large fracture and on one face there are two connected surface fractures with unpolished ripple marks within. On the other face the axe has been angled inwards towards the …
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2013
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Record ID: NARC-D6DDF1
Object type: POUNDER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone (probably dolerite or epidiorite) pounder or hammer, bell-shaped in plan and profile, likely made from a natural cobble. The wider end of the stone appears to have been broken from its original form, but use has continued creating a smooth surface. The narrow end shows little sign of use and was probably only used for the hand to grip the tool. Ashbee (1996) illustrates a similar example from Halangy Down on St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, which he suggests might have been used as a limpet hammer or for pulverising grit for tempering potter's clay, or woodworking, (page 1…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 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: 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: 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: 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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Record ID: CORN-4F4B17
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Weathered cobble of greenstone, oval in plan and ovoid in profile and section. There is rough working over the whole of the surface of the flat oval shape which may have once been an axehead roughout, and has since been broken and weathered. One end tapers more to a rounded point, but there is no clear blade or butt end. The ventral face is more flat, mainly through weathering, while the dorsal face is more pecked. 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 distin…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-423080
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Weathered cobble of metamorphic slate deriving ultimately from the granite aureole, which has been shaped into an axehead roughout, now broken. The roughout is rhomboidal in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. The blade end tapers to a point in both plan and profile, so the cutting edge is missing, and the butt end has broken off. The ventral face is more ground down, mainly through weathering, while the dorsal face is more flaked and damaged. 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 P…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-3AD862
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken blade end of an axehead roughout of igneous rock but not gabbroic greenstone, U-shaped in plan, and lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. There is a defined yet damaged cutting edge at the blade end, and the ventral face is more ground down, through use rather than weathering, while the dorsal face is more pitted. 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-sha…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-AE8D96
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large volcanic greenstone pebble, circular in plan and in profile and ovate in section. The upper face and base have weathered to a smooth surface and one side appears ground to smooth, flatter edge, suggesting some pestle use around part of the perimeter. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all fresh and unweathered, appropriate for selection from a beach during the Neolithic. The beach selection would ensure hard enduring pieces. It is quite possible that the wear on thes…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Last updated: Saturday 18th February 2012
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Record ID: CORN-AE6DE3
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rough greenstone cobble, ovate in plan, and trapezoidal in profile and semi-circular in section. The base has been ground to a smooth flat surface and there is a fracture running through the middle of the cobble, and one edge has a spur projecting beyone the base, suggesting a section has broken off, perhaps during use. Several flakes have been removed from one side, and the opposite side has been ground smooth due to fine pestle use. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Last updated: Saturday 18th February 2012
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