Record ID: WAW-E3C91A
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a stone carving, presumably Medieval in date (AD 1100-1500). The carving is anthropomorphic, with the fragment being a man's head. The eyes are roughly oval in shape and are set in a sunken, sub oval sockets. The nose is trapezoidal in shape, starting out at 4.06mm wide at the top, tapering to 3.43mm near the bridge and gradually expanding to 5.15mm wide near the bottom. There is no extant mouth to the carving, and the rest of the carving surrounding the face is raised in relation to it. The sections outside of the main face that are raised have roughly equidistant c…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-ABAE2B
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Sheffield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining pieces of carved sandstone that form a humanoid face, of unknown date, possibly Iron Age to Medieval, 800 BC - AD 1500. There are also 5 additional chips of the same stone which may also be associated, but which do not display any working and do not appear to have any finished surfaces. The head has a flat face, and an uneven but mainly flat reverse, with straight sides, making it rectangular in cross-section. The lower face is missing owing to the stone being broken, and the face is broken into two pieces down the left side of the nose (as viewed). The break is weat…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2022
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Record ID: WREX-DF5695
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Limestone block of stone with circular cup marks on two sides, probably dating c. 2500-800BC. The stone itself is broadly shield shaped. On one side is a singular, neatly executed, circular cup mark. On the other side there are two conjoined circular cup marks, which are less well defined. Length: 41cm; width: 39cm; thickness: 19cm. Weight: unknown.
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-6B3744
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A carved Serpentine stone cross souvenir dating to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century AD. The stone is based on the cross at Rosemorran in Gulval parish, Cornwall and was probably carved by Mr J E Drew of Penzance. The head of the cross is oval in shape and extends to a rectangular base. The cross is rectangular in section. The head of the cross possesses carved decoration comprising a human figure with arms outstretched. The underside of the cross is plain. Chisel marks are visible on both the underside and the sides of the cross. There is a small, circular piercing me…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2016
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Record ID: GAT-399207
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular stone block with a human face carved into one side. Height 270mm; Thickness 80mm; Width at Top 220mm; Width at Bottom 200mm.
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-B0B368
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Published
Two stones of possible Prehistoric date. One is intentionally shaped into a circular disc with convex faces and a flat median band which is 19.6mm wide. The stone is speckled granite which is beige, black and dark pink in colour. The disc is 64.4mm diameter and 44.5mm thick. 281g. There are some scratches transversly across the flat band. The function of the stone is uncertain, but a prehistoric date is suspected. The other is a sub-spherical pebble or cobble probably of a well consolidated impure sandstone rich in quartz and feldspar. It is speckled grey in colour and there is …
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: CORN-ED06E2
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greisen cup-marked stone, sub-square in plan and profile and plano-convex in section. The convex face has three dimples that are 25 mm in diameter, in a circular arrangement, which run up to the broken edges on both sides, suggesting that there were more cup-marks on the missing piece. The underside of the stone has been damaged with two deep linear grooves in a cross formation that reveals the quartz beneath the weathered and soiled surface. These cup-marked decorated stones are generally dated from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age because they are sometimes asso…
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-C38FC1
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small stone that has been carved, possibly into a phallic form? The stone, which appears to be a hard pale brown sandstone, has flattened lower and rear faces and an arched upper face. The stone tapers from the rear to a rounded front end. The centre of the stone has been carved with three encircling shallow grooves. The object is 25mm long, 24mm wide, 15mm thick and weighs12.67g.
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-6B3838
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably post medieval or modern carved architectural stone in the shape of a human skull. The carved skull is shaped like an inverted pear. The eyes are deep circular hollows and the noes is a triangular recess. The cheeks are sunken hollows, and there is a straight incised line across the chin which may represent the mount. The skull projects forwards and outwards from the rest of the stone, which is left in a block at the back, smaller than the outline of the skull. The block at the back is trapezoid in plan, wider at the top, and rectangular in section. This shape may have …
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-1A0275
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Carved greenstone head on the face of a square lintel which should have been fixed on to the top of a collumn in a stone archway, but there is no corbelling or any way of fixing the piece onto the stone arch behind it. The back has continuous oblique chisel marks which look like it was meant to key into more modern man-made material. All four of the sides have large square chisel marks which may also have been used to help to set the stone. Sedding (1909) in Norman Architecture in Cornwall, illustrates similar corbel stones from Liskeard Church on page 247, Plate XCIX, whic…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2010
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Record ID: SWYOR-0C7EF4
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large piece of possible exotic worked stone, of uncertain date and function. It feels to be lighter than if it was made of metal, and heavier than if it was ceramic. It is dark grey / black and very fine grained with rounded (vitrified?) inclusions which have a lustrous silver shine. The matrix is hard and irregular, but can be crushed with a thumbnail. The piece is curved in one plane only. The outer face of the curve is pitted and has a groove across it. The inner face is much smoother though it still has rounded bobbles visible. The broken edges appear black in colour, but have s…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-7A5757
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably post medieval or modern carved architectural stone in the shape of a human head. The head is 125mm long from front to back, 95mm wide and 120mm high at the front. The stone is a granular grit stone like material with silica inclusions. The carved face is shaped like an inverted pear. There are long lanks of hair on each side but the top of the head is bald. The eyes are pointed ovals and are slightly bulbous. The nose is a projecting squat triangle. The mouth is also a pointed oval shape with a depression in the centre giving the appearance of very thick lips. Beneath the…
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: NARC-1A5648
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shivalinga: a scared stone marked with three lines across it, and round like a stone from a sacred river. One of the five lost Sankara Stones.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2011
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Record ID: SWYOR-1CFE01
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A carved stone object which is approximately 150mm long, 120mm wide and 75mm thick. The stone is rectangular and has a square indentation with sloping sides in one face. The edges are rough though whether this is damage or rough working is not certain. The date and function of this object are not certain. It was found during repairs to the dry stone walling at Castle Hill, Kirklees. The site has been in use for thousands of years, but this object is most likely to be of medieval or post medieval date. Possible functions include a mortar or a lamp or candle holder though stone examples …
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-917741
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked stone object of unknown date. The object is 215mm long, 56.6mm wide and 52.4mm thick. It is made of fine sandstone. The object appears not to be complete. It may have originally been ovoid in plan with a circular hole in the wider end. Most of one side is now missing leaving a sub-rectangular stone with one convex side and a deep concave notch in the side of one end. Both ends are pointed. The notch is obviously man made and other faces of the stone looked to be shaped too. The end furthest from the notch has flat top and bottom faces, and slightly convex sides that taper to f…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: LON-89C164
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman stone (limestone) inscription panel (AD43-410). The fragment is from an inner section of an inscription panel; all edges are broken there are no traces of the outer edges of the panel. The front surface is with two ‘D’s, with serifs, on two different lines of text, one above the other. The lettering is quite deeply carved but abrasion blurred some edges. The lower surface is rough. Dimensions: length: 133.12mm; width: 71.50mm; thickness: 45.80mm; weight: 482.1g. Identified by Jenny Hall, Senior Roman Curator, Museum of London.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of London', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-894BC8
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval stone (Reigate stone) fragment from a monument, probably from an ecclesiastic or monastic context (AD13th – 14th century). The fragment is from the corner of a monument with two sides decorated with carved tracery. The two sides are set at approximately 120º forming a facetted surface. Another side is covered in tool marks suggesting it abutted either a wall or another piece of stone. The final side is a rough broken surface. The carved decoration is the same on both surfaces – a long, narrow, rectangular panel with an internal arch with two cusps forming a scal…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of London', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-FF86D1
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Carved stone head, very difficult/impossible to date. There is nothing particularly ‘Celtic’ about it and the likelihood that it is ancient is minimal. Prof John Prag, formerly of Manchester University/Museum, comments that they have one or two in the Manchester collection like this, carved on a rough boulder and probably intended to be set into a wall. There is one there that comes from Belmont (Bolton) and was carved in living memory. Prog PRag adds that these heads will probably still have served the traditional apotropaic function.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Helens', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C0ADD4
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Section of white/light grey carved masonry with three grooves along the centre. Probably Medieval in date.
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6660E5
Object type: CARVED STONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular stone with cup marks on the obverse and reverse, called 'cobble'. One one side there is a larger central and smaller marginal cup while on the other a large central cup mark is surrounded by several smaller and a couple of medium-sized cup-marks. Both central cups are 94mm in diameter while the smaller ones diameters range from 20-60mm. These cup-marked decorated stones are generally dated to the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age because they are sometimes associated with LNeo and EBA burial sites. However, an exact date is difficult to give. The cobble was recorded at …
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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