Record ID: NLM-0B2822
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An end scraper, possibly of Middle Palaeolithic date. The flint appears to be a cherty-like grey flint with a heavy patina and spots of iron staining. The surface of the scraper is slightly abraded. The dorsal face has broad multi-directional flake scars and short, linear retouch on the distal end. The ventral face is plain and has a slight bulb of percussion. The length is 46.8mm, the width is 62.5mm and the weight is 39.26g.
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2005
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-6E2165
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic hand axe or a Late Neolithic ovate made from a mottled mid-brown flint. The dorsal surface has circa 30% cortex at the proximal end, however this may be re-cortification, since the layer is very thin and almost translucent. The edges and distal end have suffered damage. The surface is fairly smooth and appears polished in places. Although there is no doubt as to the findspot of the axe, there is doubt over whether it is from this location originally. There are two factors that cast doubt; the first is that the find is from Holbeach, which due to its location in the wash h…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-15D511
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic cordate flint hand axe. The axe is uniface, roughly D-shaped in cross-section and covered with a thick chalk-coloured patina. Where recent damage has occured to the edges, a mottled dark brown flint can be seen. The butt end (proximal) of the axe retains a thicker band of chalk-coloured patina, which may in fact be cortex or recortification. The opposite end (distal) has an incomplete tip, which was broken in antiquity. There are a number of medium sized flakes removed from the ventral surface, and two or three larger ones removed from the dorsal.
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-DEA3F3
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible Lower or Middle Palaeolithic flint hand axe. The axe is ovate in plan and in cross-section, and made from a mottled yellow-light brown flint. The ventral surface is very irregular and damaged. There some signs of flake scars, on the other side, but this axe - if it is anthropogenic at all - is in a bad state. Published in Lithics Vol. 26, p. 97 and fig. 8.
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-DED677
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic flint hand axe. The axe is ovate in plan and in cross-section, and made from a mottled blue-white flint with yellow patina on the surface. There are patches of mid-brown cortex on the dorsal surface. The tip is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-73E288
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic flint axe. The axe is roughly oval and has a mid-brown even patina over the surface. One side has been worked whereas the other has a concave circular depression in it showing that it is a thermal flake worked into a tool. There is some recent damage to the edges exposing a dark black flint interior.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-54EC10
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Pale grey to brown flint or chert. Hand Axe. Bifacial symmetrical pointed hand axe of oval section, with a smooth butt formed of the natural cortex of a flint nodule. The flint was extensively worked with prominent conchoidal ripples suggesting the initial use of a hard hammer, reducing the size of what is in effect a core. To judge from the direction of the ripples, much of this working proceeded inwards from both edges of the tool. The marks of working are in general well defined. The original surface of the object is iron stained to a honey colour on one side, and s…
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelstern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-C9C4A8
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete lower Palaeolithic, Acheulean, bifaced ovate flint hand axe. The axe is oval in plan, pointed oval in cross-section and has a flat striking platform at the base. Both sides display flake scars that generally run from the edge inwards. One side has three broad and long flake scars that run from the striking platform to just below the apex. The majority of these flake scars display a rust-orange colour patina. The flint is mottled cream colour. The striking platform is roughly lozenge shaped and measures 38mm x 17mm. Such hand axes were in widespread use from c.600,000 to…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2011
Last updated: Sunday 25th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ropsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A91D32
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Lower Palaeolithic flint biface dating to the Acheulian. It is sub-oval in plan and is worked all over. It has some modern damage mainly located at one tip, and the axe overall has a slightly rolled - but not extensively so - feel to it. The axe presimably was in MIS 6 (Balderton-Southrey) terrace deposits of the Trent and derives from earlier deposits upstream. It is impossible to date, but possibly derives from an MIS11 context (between 424,000 and 374,000 years ago).
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-8C977B
Object type: POINT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A knapped flint late Upper Palaeolithic, Late Glacial shouldered point, dating from c.11,000 - c. 8,300 BC. The point is formed from an elongated blade which has two main longitudinal ridges on the dorsal face from previous blade removal from the same core. There is some additional ridging at the tip of the blade where the point has been formed; the very tip of the point has been broken and is missing. There is short scaled semi-abrupt-low angle retouch along one edge of the pointed tip which extends from the tip downwards for a length of c.20mm. The overall length of the point is …
Created on: Monday 11th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tetford Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5E3BBD
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Dark grey flint with a small patch of uncoloured cortex and with iron staining on one side, hand axe. Bifacially worked oval axe of triangular profile and with a a broad base. Broad parallel flake removal scars from oblique soft hammer working appear on both its sides and across its base. The drafts of this initial working range from c.12 to c.26mm in width. Battered edge damage appears restricted to one edge and around the narrower end of the object. All surfaces bear a high polish characteristic of desert gloss acquired during interglacial periods, save for where a sub-triangular fr…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3D68A3
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible biface, broadly triangular in shape. There are clear flake scars on both surfaces, but Peter Chowne has commented: "There are recent scars on all faces suggestive of mechanical damage during extraction or transportation that make identification difficult and the ventral face has a large flake scar that appears to have been made in antiquity and may have led the maker to reject the piece. There are flake scars of probable human origin on the dorsal face. The object has an abraded surface, except where there is recent damage, typical of artefacts from Trent gravel contexts n…
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Welton le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ADD851
Object type: POINT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint possible point. Possible Mousterian point. A sub-triangular flake with broad flakes struck from the dorsal side and with a bulbar ventral surface; despite its suspected manufacture by the Levallois technique the flake is of a thin lentoid or oval section. Thick white patina has developed over all surfaces. Suggested date: Middle Palaeolithic, 150,000-40,000 BC. Length: 83.9mm, Width: 50.3mm, Thickness: 11.5mm, Weight: 40.59gms
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-98A64E
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Palaeolithic (Upper) to Neolithic (Later) fabricator, 75mm long, 24mm wide, 28mm thick and 50.8g in weight. Made on a chalky white flint of poor quality. The fabricator is quite large and chunky and has been worked on all sides but still possesses a triangular cross-section.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-951F06
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Toffee coloured flint with cortex possible debitage, as kindly identified by the finder. A large irregular flake with a broad flake removal scar on its dorsal side and an angled striking platform adjacent to a bulbar ventral surface. The opposite, straight, end may be trimmed by short abrupt retouch executed from the ventral aspect. The surface is weathered and battered. This reporter would welcome better-informed comment than his own on this object. Suggested date: possibly Middle Palaeolithic, 150,000-40,000 BC Length: 67.2mm, Width: 46mm, Thickness: 16.3mm, Weight: 45.16gms
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnetby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-98DE4C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic small, bifacial worked, flint handaxe of cordate type dating c. 400,000-150,000BC. The handaxe was found on in a quarry. There is invasive soft hammer flaking covering both faces. The butt and mid portion of the axe is thick and it then tapers to a rounded point. The cross section is lentoid (pointed oval). The flint has an orange patina. Similar examples include: DOR-CAC6C5, KENT-F9E88B, SUR-85BDCC. Dimensions: length: 112.78mm; width: 75.56mm; thickness: 37.37mm; weight: 285g
Created on: Friday 17th April 2020
Last updated: Friday 18th February 2022
Spatial data recorded.