Record ID: DENO-9A73D6
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric axe; Fragment of Neolithic polished stone axe. Shattered fragment of hard, green-grey stone with an area of the original surface remaining. This area shows the curved, highly polished surface of the axe, although the exact form cannot be determined from such a small piece. Length 38.2mm, width 31.8mm, depth 9.1mm, weight 10.51g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-7C2322
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman votive axe; cast lead axehead of probable Roman date. The axe is of the perforated type which, at full size, would have had a haft fixed through the middle of it. This miniature copy in lead has an iron-rich substance in the perforation. The lead has a thick, even, white patina over its surface. It is likely that this miniature axehead had a votive function and similar items are known from Roman ritual contexts, although the iron in the hole is unusual. Length 20.9mm, width 8.4mm, thickness 7.7mm, weight 4.81g A similar tiny lead axehead is recorded on the database as SUR-5…
Created on: Thursday 4th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Orston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-42AB37
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic axe; worked flint axehead fragment of probable Neolithic or early Bronze Age date (c. 2,500 – 1,500 BC). The axe has a tapering profile, leading to a squared end. It is of pointed oval cross-section. It is broken off across its width. There is extensive secondary working and retouch forming cutting edges around both long edges and the shorter end. The flint is opaque cream-white with areas of grey. Length 70.7mm, width (at break) 40.5mm, thickness (at break) 19.5mm, weight 63.0g
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dinnington St Johns', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-858141
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic axe; incomplete polished flint axehead of Neolithic date. The remaining fragment is the butt end of the axe. It has a narrow, rounded butt and then widens to the middle of the axe. At the break, the axe has a pointed oval cross section. The flint is of a grey-brown colour with patches of opaque white and translucent blue. Length 82.6mm, width 55.9mm, thickness (at break) 28.3mm, weight 166.6g
Created on: Friday 17th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-6DAAF6
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete knapped and polished Neolithic flint axe head. The axe is missing part of the cutting edge and all of the butt end but based on the cross-section and angle of tapering is probably of the thick-butted type or possibly of the elongated type of axe. The axe is lenticular with facetted sides in section. Butler (Butler, C. 2005 Prehistoric Flintwork Tempus, p.145) notes that those axes with facetted sides tend to be less than 200mm long. The axe has a rich cream-beige patina with traces of cortex remaining on both faces. Butler (Butler, C. 2005 Prehistoric Flintwork Te…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2011
Last updated: Monday 31st January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Notts Border', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-09C3E2
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic polished stone axe. Convex faces with rounded sides, wide blade end tapering considerably towards the butt end. One modern chip on one corner of the blade, and a few older chips including one towards the centre of the blade, and damage to the butt end. Fine grained igneous rock such as basalt, weathered. Length c.178mm, width of blade end 104mm, width of butt end c.20mm, thickness 42mm, weight c.890g. Evans 1872 ('The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons & Ornaments of Great Britain', London) publishes some polished axes of siilar form with narrow butt and wide blade, pp104-5…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-63A605
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic polished stone axe. The edges are slightly flattened. Both ends are pointed. Oval with flattened sides in profile. One face has an line of damage - this does not look recent. Length 119.7mm, width (max)74.2mm, width (cutting edge) 68.10mm, width (butt) 42.1mm, thickness 33.44mm, weight >200g. The finder took this to Sheffield Museum who identified the stone source as Langdale.
Created on: Wednesday 20th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-7F0C72
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic polished axe. Bifacially worked ground axe. Probably Craig Llwyd stone. Length 118.92mm, width 57.04mm, thickness 30.16mm, weight 294g.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-2BC406
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Neolithic (c.4000-c.2350 BC) axe haft made of deer antler. Overall the object measures 296mm long, 74mm wide and 50mm thick. Dr Kevin leahy says: 'It could be an axe haft, someone seems to have gone to the trouble of hollowing out the cancellous interior of the antler to form a socket which has the right sort of section. I know of axes being placed in antler sockets mounted on wooden hafts from the Neolithic Lakeside villages in Switzerland but nothing from the UK. I am a bit worried by the straight cut termination at the distal end of the antler beam as I don't know ho…
Created on: Friday 11th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-970321
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete ground and polished stone axehead of Neolithic date. The rounded narrowed butt and mid-section of the axe survive with the remaining mid-section and cutting edge lost due to an old break. The axe is a tapered rectangle in plan, flaring outwards towards the, now missing, cutting edge, and is a pointed oval in cross-section, both side-to-side and, although truncated, also along its length. Both faces of the axe have chips, more invasively on one face, the weathering of these chips suggests various dates of occurence with some being relatively recent based on the sharpness…
Created on: Monday 30th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddington Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-CB1BF6
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Partially polished small flint axe of Neolithic date.  The flint is of pale orange-brown colour.  The axe is lenticular or double convex in section and thin butted in shape with the broader blade end tapering towards the butt.  The axe has been edge ground meaning that the blade third of the whole object only has been polished, the main body and butt have been left in their knapped state.  The blade edge has obviously undergone later retouch to re-sharpen the cutting edge. Following this retouch the axe was not then repolished.  One side of the blade is flatter in profile than th…
Created on: Friday 26th March 2010
Last updated: Friday 26th March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton on the Wolds', grid reference and parish protected.