Record ID: SUR-968681
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially worked Neolithic lanceolate point or implement made from a pink-brown coarse-grained quartzite. The tool is 74.3mm in length and oval in shape, with a lenticular cross section. The faceting on both faces is suggestive of hard-hammered working.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9CC099
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and incomplete whetstone made from an imported micaceous schist and of suspected early medieval to medieval date. The whetstone was originally rectangular and narrow, with a sub rectangular cross section. Only one end now survives, this has a rounded terminal drilled with a large suspension hole. The main body of the object has been thinned to breakage by heavy use from one side.
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-9C42F8
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a smashed stone object made from a fine-grained micaceous metamorphic rock (which is not of local origin to the findspot). One face is smooth and clearly well finished. It has incised lines forming a zig-zag pattern, which may be partial angular letter forms in Roman captials with thin stems and small serifs. The individual letters cannot be identified but the general style could suggest a potential Roman date for the object.  Aside from the inscribed face, all other sides of the piece are broken, with heavily abraded breaks which are clearly of ancie…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: LON-6181C7
Object type: DIE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman stone die dating from AD 50-410. The die is cuboid and each value is marked by a ring and dot design, which range from 1 to 6. Opposite sides add up to 7. The die has a polished surface with faint vertical groves on each face. This die is Potter variant 14 (Finds Research Group 700-1700, Datasheet 23, Dice by Geoff Egan). Dimensions: length: 8.33mm; width: 8.11mm; thickness: 7.04mm; weight: 1.19g Similar dice are illustrated in Crummy (1983, 96-97) which date to the Roman period.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-D373BB
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished hardstone axehead of Neolithic date. The axehead is 123.6mm in length and 61.3mm wide, with a lenticular side profile and an oval cross section 37mm thick. The butt is rounded and the sides flare slightly towards the blade end before narrowing into the curved cutting edge. One face demonstrates damage from weathering, whilst the other side remains smooth with visible striations from polishing. This suggests that the axehead has spent considerable time partially buried in riverbed sediment with only one face exposed to the moving water. The axehead is made from…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: LON-1F4F98
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roughly worked stone projectile dating from AD 1200-1400. Dimensions: diameter: mm; weight: g.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-B0B851
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman tessera of grey limestone, dating to c. AD 100 - 400. It is sub-square in shape, with the upper surface showing some wear. Height: 13.75 mm Width: 11.39 mm Weight: 4.78 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-B0B1CC
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman tessera of white limestone, dating to c. AD 100 - 400. It is sub-square in shape, with the upper surface showing some wear. Height: 13.82 mm Width: 17.01 mm Weight: 9.01 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
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Record ID: LON-B9AFE5
Object type: MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Incomplete Post Medieval stone token mould for casting four identical tokens bearing the letter G. This is part of one half of a mould for making lead alloy tokens, there is a central funnel to carry the molten metal down into the moulds. The stone would have been trapezoidal in shape with two holes drilled into it either side of the central funnel to allow it to be pegged to the other half of the mould, only one peg hole remains which retains its lead alloy peg. The mould would have produced four token with each of the tokens carries the same device, a letter G. Stone is a buff c…
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2020
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Record ID: OXON-AFF12D
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A limestone tessera, probably of Roman date. The tessera is a slightly brownish white and has been polished smooth. its reverse is less smooth and still retains some of the mortar used to cement this block. This mortar is a a greyish brown colour. The tessera measures 25.5mm by 18.4mm by 15.7mm and weighs 17.61 grams.
Created on: Monday 5th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-256904
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished dark green doleritic axehead, sub-triangular in plan with a pointed butt end and a straight cutting edge, and lentoid in profile and ovate in section. The axehead measures 161 mm in length, 62 mm in width at the cutting edge, and 39 mm in thickness, and weighs 527.7 g. The implement has a marked posterior taper and is polished over the entire surface although the surface is pitted. A chip is missing off the butt end and some shallow chips to the body on both faces. Half way down the right margin of the ventral face there is the filled in rectangular section that has been ta…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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Record ID: LON-692684
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval stone plano-convex spindle whorl. There is a small piece of damage to the whorl on the underside. Similar whorls are illustrated in Egan (1998:258-9 fig 202:790). Dimensions: diameter 39.54mm, Diameter of hole: 8.24mm, Thickness: 17.26mm, Weight: 30.18g A similar whorl on the database is LON-E91584. References: Egan, G. 1998 The Medieval Household - Medieval finds from excavations in London. HMSO. London
Created on: Thursday 21st November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: KENT-ADC560
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, stone, possible stylus of the Medieval to Post Medieval period (AD1100-1800). Description: The object is a worked rod of stone, roughly cylindrical in shape with soft, rounded ends. It has slightly facetted sides which are rounded off with possible wear. The upper end of the object is sub-rectangular in cross-section and decorated with a pair of transverse grooves. The grooves run the circumference of the object but the ends don't quite align leaving a short gap. The shaft widens slighly below the decorative grooves gently tapering to a rounded tip which is worn. …
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Record ID: LON-A3025E
Object type: MORTAR (VESSEL)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval stone lamp mortar produced late 13th - early 14th century but would have continued in use for much longer. This fragment comprises one lug and part of the rim from the lamp. The upper section of the lug has a square cross-section that tapers down its length. This rounded section extends around the mortar forming a collar that is carved with repeated vertical ridge and grooves. The lower section of the lug and the wall of the mortar just below the collar is smooth. The mortar is made from a shelly limestone. Saunders (1991:169) write that domestic stone mort…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
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Record ID: LON-A20D83
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman intaglio in dark blue nicolo onyx bearing the motif of a bird possibly a cockerel, dating from AD 43-410. The stone is oval cut in shape with a bevelled edge on the obverse side. The raised central section is blue-grey in colour and has a standing bird incised into it. The rest of the stone is a blue in colour. The reverse is flat. Dimensions: length: 12.76mm; width: 10.56mm; thickness: 2.84mm; weight: 0.69g. Reference: Henig, M. 1978. A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites. BAR British Series 8. Henig, M. 2006. Engraved Gemstones: A Guide for the Small Find…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-C8AF58
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly spherical bead made from what appear to be natural chalk fossils, perhaps similar to coral. The bead has a roughly centrally drilled hole. Similar beads from the same site are SUR-D40483. Dimensions: diameter: 17.80mm; height: 15.88mm; weight: 5.61g In view of the proximity of an early medieval burial these may well be of Saxon origin. They were found scattered separately across a field.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bromley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-CD8E88
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, fine-grained sandstone whetstone of unknown date. Description: The whetstone is incomplete roughly surviving at 50% of original length, it is ovoid in section and was likely a long thin pointed oval in plan although one pointed end is missing. The remaining point is round and blunt and the broken edge is fairly worn. each wide flat surface has been heavily worn with use leaving the whetstone much thinner towards the middle of the whetstone. The Whetstone is a cream colour with some iron staining. Measurements: 95.97mm long, 25.97mm wide, 14.53mm thick and 40.2g in…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Record ID: LON-D79394
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone Late Medieval or Post Medieval cannon ball dating between AD 1450-1750. Te diameter is 1.901 inches which makes it the correct size for a Falconet cannon. Falconets were invented in the late 15th century and were used throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Other stone cannon balls on the database are LON-8C8719, SWYOR-09F4A2 and LON-E4B976. Dimensions: diameter: 48.2mm; weight: 144.58g.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2017
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Record ID: LON-C12085
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman quern-stone made from Mayen lava dating from AD50-410. The fragment represents approximately half the original quern. This is an unusually small quern and would have been for domestic use. Only one surface is finished and that is the grinding surface, it has been worked to form grooves that radiate out from the center hole. Dimensions: length: 22.2mm; thickness: 63.85mm; weight: 2565g. A similar lava quern on the database is LON-3156E8 and LON-BC5DC6. Identification by Jackie Keily, Curator, Museum of London. Crawford and Roder (1955:68) write "Niederme…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: PAS-8F93BC
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone object, possibly a bead, circular in plan and sub-oval in section, with rounded edges. It is perforated with a small hole (all the way through) its sides. It has on both sides an inscribed image of a deer, facing right. The stone is mottled and dark in colour.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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