Record ID: SUR-83C9B6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished flint axehead, dating to c.4000-2350 BC. The axehead is made from a light brown flint. Only the front portion remains; this has a curved cutting edge which has been polished. The axehead has breaks to both lateral sides and heavy damage to the dorsal and ventral surfaces. The rear end has been lost.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9EE7B5
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, complete Neolithic flaked and polished flint axehead, 99mm in length, dating to c.4000-2350 BC. The axehead is made from a mottled light grey flint and has flaked removals across its surfaces. The cross sectional profile is lenticular and the axehead flares slightly to a rounded cutting edge which has been polished and has some post depositional damage. The proximal end / butt is flat.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-DF9EEA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greenstone polished axehead. Greenstone axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 128.9mm, Width: 61.7mm, Thickness: 34.9mm
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-3A19B1
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Neolithic greenstone polished axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2500 BC. Possibly a product of the Langdale Pike axe factory, Group VI, produced as an oval rough-out and finished by fine polishing which emphasises the natural banding of the stone to striking decorative effect. The remaining fragment is trapezoidal in plan and pointed oval in cross-section. Both ends terminate in old breaks. The surface has been highly polished.  Length: 32.2 mm Width: 38.3 mm Thickness: 22.1 mm Weight: 25.85 mm The Langdale greenstone axes were traded from a quarry on Langdale …
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: WMID-B70CE7
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete Neolithic polished stone axe/axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is formed from a fine grained volcanic tuff, possibly from Langdale although it is not as fine grained as other examples.  It is impossible to say for certain without petrological analysis of the rock. The axe is a pointed oval shape in plan with a wide crescent shaped cutting edge. All the knapping scars have been removed through polishing. The butt end is incomplete and has a small section missing. The cutting edge is also damaged, there is a large semi-circular missing…
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-B342ED
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete worked and polished flint axehead of neolithic date (c.4000-2350BC). Description: The object is sub-oval in plan, tapering from the crescentic blade end to the square butt. It is lenticular in cross-section and profile. It has a sharpened cutting end with the pointed edge extending around the entire object. Both faces are smoothly polished. It is made of a light and dark brown mottled flint. There are some chips to the blade end and butt end.  Measurements: 147.4mm in length, 68.2mm in width, 42.9mm in maximum thickness, 532g
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-F2166C
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished Neolithic axehead made from a mottled grey flint. The axehead has a lenticular cross section, with flattened strips along the midpoint of both long edges; both ends of the tool are heavily damaged, with the blade and butt both now lost. The original width of the cutting edge may have been around 56mm. The surface shows incomplete polishing which some of the original knapping facets partially visible in places.
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: WILT-C88C09
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished Early Neolithic flint axehead dating to c. 4000-3000 BC.  The flint is a mottled light cream/grey and has been polished all over apart from the edges where there are remains of retouch.  The axehead is long, straight in plan with a clear edge and butt end.  In section at the centre point the axehead is a pointed oval.  Retouch:  Extent: long; Type: scaled; Angle: crossed abrupt. There is some later damage at one end. Length 123.4mm, maximum width 37.3mm, maximum thickness 23.8mm.  Weight: 140 grams.&n…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-5F0356
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff flint with very marked patina suggesting a long period of exposure to a calcareous environment; possible polished flint axehead fragment. A small chunk which may preserve the crescentic cutting edge of a polished flint axe; if this is so, the other side of the blade has been pitted by frost fractures and/or other impact damage, and the butt and most of the body of the axe are lost. Suggested date: Early to Mid Neolithic, 4000-2700 BC Length: 36.7mm, Height: 36.9mm, Thickness: 18.7mm, Weight: 21.25gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Baumber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-A5E0DF
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic polished stone axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a rounded narrow butt end and a wider rounded blade end and generally straight sides. It is pointed oval in section. The blade edge is blunted and feels well worn along its edge and feels sharp along part of its length.  The opposed, butt edge is rounded. The sides are sharply angled but are not sharp.  . The axehead is made from a pale grey stone and has a smooth surface. Length: 77 mm Width: 51 mm Thickness: 23 mm Weight: 129.14 g
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-BC4391
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone axehead of Neolithic date, c. BC 3500-1200. The axe is pointed oval in cross-section with lateral facets (flattened upper and lower edges). It tapers towards one of the edges which terminates with a narrower, abraded and chipped butt. The wider cutting edge is missing with a worn break and a sub-oval fracture extetending into the body of the axe. The surfaces are smooth and polished, with some chips and edges missing, which is likely to be caused by post-depositional damage. The axehead is 111.55mm long, 57.46mm wide, 30.66mm thic…
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarborough Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-12EDF9
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete  Neolithic polished axe. Distal end of a Neolithic polished axe, possibly Butler type A, made of pale grey flint. The axe has a pointed oval cross section, and is polished all over with occcasional flakes still visible. There is a large flake scar down the middle of the axe that terminates 25mm from the distal end. The proximal end of the axe has broken off. Brought in for recording along with several other stone tools by the landowner.   
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Sunday 22nd October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C0425A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the rear half of a polished Neolithic axehead made from a grey flint. The axehead has a lenticular cross section which tapers from a maximum of 38.6mm wide at the break to 30mm at the rear end, which is heavily damaged. Both sides are polished all the way along.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-6B7EE2
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic polished stone axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a rounded narrow butt end and a wider rounded blade end and generally straight sides. It is pointed oval in section. The blade edge is sharply angled and feels sharp along part of its length.  The opposed, butt edge is rounded.   The sides are sharply angled but are not sharp.  . The axehead is made from a very dark almost black stone and has slight pitting throughout. Length: 154.3 mm Width: 83.1 mm Thickness: 41.8 mm Weight: 848 g DUR-C2E93…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: DOR-77881A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A partly polished flint axehead. A bifacially flaked axehead made on a tabular nodule of mottled, opaque grey flint. Vestigial areas of cortex and subcortex remain on both faces and within the flint there are large, irregular areas of banded orange and brown iron precipitation. The cutting edge is unfinished. It is crudely rounded with some longitudinal flaking to create the edge. The sides of the axehead are parallel as they extend from the cutting edge and begin to taper from about halfway along into the narrower, squared butt. The flaking along the edges is regular, creating a zig-z…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CA16D6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey metamorphic polished stone axe fragment. A chip identified by the finder as from a stone axe of darker metamorphic rock than the familiar Group VI axe-heads, from imported elsewhere in western Britain. Three long thin parallel flakes have been struck from the dorsal side by probably bipolar working [i.e. from both ends] leaving a concave ventral surface. This pattern of working would usually commend a later Mesolithic date, though the use of part of an axe may extend that date range into the early Neolithic. Another small fragment of similar stone has been reported from the v…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-614050
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished Neolithic axehead made from a grey-brown quartzite with a grey band across it. Only a fragment of the surface from one face remains, with a curved edge on one end. The original dimensions of the object are impossible to determine.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-53BE3A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished late Neolithic axehead, 112.7mm in length, made from a grey flint. The axehead has a lenticular cross section which expands in width from 30.6mm at the butt to 52.7mm at the front. The cutting edge is lost to heavy battering damage which looks to be the result of use and also has removal scars consistent with attempts at re-sharpening.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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