Record ID: SF-F5FB2D
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic flaked flint axehead dating to circa 4000-2000 BC. It is an elongated oval shape in plan, broadly flame-shaped and sub-oval in section. It has bifacially invasive, scaled, low-angled retouch on both faces with with the distal end having been polished on both faces. The butt-end is pointed. The flint is opaque white on one face and a translucent white-grey on the other with a small area of white patination in the centre. There are faint traces of iron staining along one edge.
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bungay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C7F0F1
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Neolithic flint flaked axehead, dating to c. 4000-3000 BC.  Flint, dark grey/black in colour, due to staining. The axehead has worn thin as the remains of a very small amount of cortex are showing on both sides of the axehead. The axehead is long, straight in plan, with clear edges and butt ends.  In section at a central point, the axehead is pointed oval.  Extent of retouch: invasive; Type of retouch: stepped; Angle of retouch: semi-abrupt.  Length 137.2mm, maximum width 41.5, maximum thickness 22.4mm.  Weig…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: DUR-90BD3B
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint flaked and polished axe of probable late Neolithic date (c.3300 - 2200 BC) The axe is an elongated flame-shape, sub-oval in cross-section and bifacially worked. There is invasive, scaled, low angle retouch on both faces with limited polishing visible in places at the cutting edge on the wider end. Two areas of the original cortex are present on one face: near the smaller 'haft' end, and another section adjacent to a long lateral natural step or groove close to one edge. The presence of the latter cortex, and seemingly un-retouched natural s…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-44C023
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic adze type of flaked axehead, dating from 4000 - 2200 BC. The adze is formed on banded cream and buff coloured flint. It is a pointed oval in plan, and is sub-triangular in cross-section. Both faces are covered with scaled flaking. It is 120mm long, 47mm wide and 35.6mm thick. 227g.
Created on: Sunday 18th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 23rd July 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F2A6FA
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and unpolished Neolithic, (c.4000-2400BC) flint axehead, having bifacially convex sides one more pronounced than the other. Its cutting edges are sharp and undamaged. On the surface of one side, there are three small cavity's measuring 5.1 mm x 2.3 mm, 2.3 mm x 2.0 mm and 1.9 mm x 1.8 mm, probably caused by fossil inclusions. Probably Neolithic, it measures 83.2 mm in length, is 57.6 mm wide, has a thickness of 29.2 mm, and weighs 152.3 gm.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: IOW-DB7368
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic flint flaked axehead (c. 4000 BC-c. 2351 BC). A transverse break has occurred about half way along its original length. This implement is now sub-square in plan and is pointed-oval ('lenticular') in cross-section. In plan, the sides flare slightly from the break to the curved cutting edge. The arrises are not very sharp. The axehead is mottled grey and pale orange with iron staining. The break is old. Length: 65.0mm; width: 51.5mm; thickness: 26.8mm. Weight: 106.22g. Compare with a similar implement (Butler 2005: 140, fig. 57, no. 2). Butler, …
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6538FD
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flaked flint axehead. The flint is mottled mid grey and grey brown with a low-gloss patina. A small area of off-white nodule cortex remains on one face. There is some iron staining along the flake ridges. Sub-trapezoidal in shape with a rounded, tapered but and a shallow convex cutting edge. It has been crudely bifacially flaked, producing an asymmetrical cutting edge. One face is more crudely worked than the other, with a large, irregular hinge fracture and several flake removal scars from the side edges.. The other face has numerous, smaller flake removal scars from all directions…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-544DCE
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flaked axehead. The axe is cordate in shape, oval in cross section and is bifacially worked. Both faces show invasive covering flaking with some flakes terminating in hinge fractures indicating probable use of a hard hammer. The flint is opaque and with a light beige, chalky patina, with multiple areas of less siliceous honey-coloured flint. Areas of ferrous staining are visible mainly on the flake ridges. A remnant of a the striking platform is evident at one end and it is possible the axe was made on a large, naturally fractured piece. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 - 2350 BC D…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-D0C3F9
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic (4000 - 2,100 BC) flint flaked axehead with possible (old) damage to the butt end. The axehead has an elliptical cross-section, being rather flatter on one face than the other. This face has transverse flake removals behind the cutting edge for c.one third of the length of the axehead. The cutting edge (41.7mm wide) is convex in shape and slightly lop-sided. Otherwise flake removals, to both faces, are from the centre towards the edge. The more convex face has a central ridge of coretex, tapering off to one edge just before the butt-end (21.2x19.3mm). At this point, the b…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-05D907
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic (early - late) half of a flaked axe, 4000-2701BC. 54mm in length, 49mm wide and 19mm thick with a weight of 6.5grams. the fragment is roughly rectangular in form and has a greyish-cream patina.
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Record ID: HAMP-7451A8
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic or Neolithic (10,000 - 2350 BC) flint flaked axehead, oval in shape with multi-directional flake removals, towards the outside edges, on both faces. There is short, scaled, abrupt retouch to the butt end. Both the cutting edge (c.40mm) and butt end (c.20mm) are deeply curved and the axehead is lenticular in cross section (max. 43.2 mm in width and max. 26.6 mm in thickness). The flint is opaque and has patinated to a deep orangey-brown colour with some darker patches. It measures 105.5 mm in length, 43.2 mm in max. width, 26.6 mm in max. thickness and weighs 129.8 gr.
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steep', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-F2AECB
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic (10,000 - 2,100 BC) flint flaked axehead, perhaps an adze, with a plano-convex profile. It is elliptical in shape with a slightly wider end (the cutting edge, 34.8 mm) than the other (the butt end, 27.2 mm). Although the sides are curving, the cutting edge itself is horizontal. There is perhaps some damage to the butt end resulting in it also being horizontal. The flint is opaque and creamy-grey in colour. There are prominent arises on both faces with iron staining. A small area of cortex remains close to the cutting edge on one face. The other face has ret…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-8C5549
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flaked flint axehead, bifacially worked to produce an asymmetric sub-lozenge shaped cross-section. Significant amounts of recortication has occurred on this secondary peiece of flint, cortex remaining over the majority of the butt end. The presence of one small cavity is visible on the surface. This oval cavity measures 3.2mm x 2.4mm. Some battering on edges and on cutting edge. While this object could be a 'preform' which was intended to be polished the less perscriptive term 'Flaked Axe' is prefered. Probably Neolithic. Weight 191.44g, Length 106.6mm, Width 51.8mm, Thickness 29.6mm.
Created on: Friday 14th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5AB001
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An elongate bifacially flaked pick or axe-rough but dating to a probable mesolithic period, The object is made on a broken tabular nodule of probably opaque pale grey mottled flint, there is rough and often deep flaking on both faces resulting in centre axial ridges. Both faces retain traces of chalky cortex and both margins are markedly irregular and have traces of deliberate battering or dressing. One end of the object tapers to a blunt point where it has broke off, the other is blunt thick and squared-off and has a lozenge shaped cross-section, consisting largely of naturally fract…
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Record ID: DOR-D2B9CE
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible flaked axehead made on a small, tapering secondary nodule of mottled semi-translucent mid to dark grey flint with high-gloss patina. Crude in shape with an asymmetric oval cross section. Most of the surface retains off-white, chalky cortex, with only the cutting edge and two areas on one face showing exposed flint. There is some unifacial flaking on both margins, one side had a deep hinge fracture and abrupt to semi invasive bifacial flaking of the wider end to form the irregular sub-curvilinear cutting edge. The narrow butt end of the nodule appears to have been lost prior…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Record ID: NMS-248814
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Neolithic small thin-butted flaked axe of light grey patinated mottled grey flint with some small areas of spotty iron staining to the high points. Lenticular sectioned with good symmetry and relatively straight edges that are lightly ground with the cutting edge remaining sharp. 128 x 51 x 20 mm. 4000 - 2350 BC.
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
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Record ID: NLM-8F4D11
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint flaked axehead. Thick oval flake with covering scalar hard hammer retouch, which has produced an unpolished adze of broad oval section. The long parallel edges are both heavily ground or battered. A dense creamy patina suggests the object has endured prolonged exposure to a calcareous environment after its deposition, and it is additionally stained orange by percolated iron. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350. Length: 82.5mm, Width: 44.6mm, Thickness: 30.4mm, Weight: 109.72gms
Created on: Monday 26th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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Record ID: WAW-6E1FBE
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic (-3500 to -2100) flaked axehead: The axehead has been knapped from a fine-grained dark grey volcanic tuff which weather to a mid grey colour on one face and a mid grey-green on the other face. Broadly the axehead can be classed as a cordate in shape. The axehead has been bifacially flaked to produce an asymmetrical pointed oval section. The upper tip is rounded and this is due to some wear but also more recent abrasion. The surface of the axehead has a patination as described previously, and along the edges there is some recent damage and scaring. The axehead measures 95.…
Created on: Friday 19th August 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2016
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Record ID: LIN-1C029A
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic flint flaked axehead, dating to the period BC 4000-2400. The axehead is sub-oval in plan as it is rounded at one terminal and tapers to a rounded point at the other. It is triangular in cross section. It has been struck from a black-grey flint with light brown inclusions, and retains c.10% cortex. Both faces exhibit covering, scaled, semi-abrupt flaking. The flaked axehead measures 131.17mm in length, 44.60mm in width and 32.69mm in thickness. Flaked axeheads are similar to the tranchet axeheads of the the Mesolithic, however they are more finely worked and …
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-9E3E58
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flaked flint axehead, 112mm in length, 47mm in width and 31mm thick with a weight of over 100grams. The object is rectangular in form and lozenge shaped in cross section and it has an orange-brown patina. It is bi-fically worked with invasive, semi-abrupt, scaled re-touch across its surface.
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
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