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Record ID: WILT-EE83DB
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A polished stone miniature adze of Neolithic to Bronze Age date (c. 3500 - 2200 BC). The adze measures 52.04mm in length, 13.03mm in width at the butt end, widening to 23.77mm at the blade end, is 10.92mm thick at the butt end, widening to 15.03mm thick in the body, before tapering to 1.33mm at the blade end. It weighs 27.30g.
The adze is thick butted with an asymmetric profile. The butt is squared off and has been flattened. One face has been ground and polished flat with the blade end sharply facetted to create the edge. The opposite face is convex with facetted mesal sides and a…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-FE73F2
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint adze. The adze has one convex worked side with the other side being flatter (but also worked). The tool is oval shaped in plan (and semi-circular in section) with the working end widening slightly. The other narrower end of the adze would have been hafted into a wooden handle and it would have functioned as a heavy-duty tool for cutting trees and woodworking. The adze weighs 159.95g and measures 118.5mm in length, 46mm in width and 27mm in thickness.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'York', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-2F26B7
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early Neolithic polished stone tool – either an adze or axehead. The tool has been ground so that the areas of surface still surviving are smooth. There are quite large areas of damage on the tool; the blade edge is completely missing making the original size of the tool difficult to interpret. The tool weighs 146.77g and measures 83.95mm in length, 43.71mm in width and 26.87mm in thickness.
Created on: Friday 17th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Saxton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-BD78A1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint flaked adze dating from 4000 - 2200 BC. The adze (or asymetric axe) is formed on dark grey high quality flint which is not patinated and which has few inclusions. It is sub-recatngular, tapering from a cutting edge of 40.5mm wide, to a rounded butt of 18mm wide. The sides are straight apart from the corners of the cutting edge which taper slightly. In cross section, the axe has a pointed oval asymetrical shape, being flatter on one face than the other. It is invasivly worked with covering, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch, with smaller removals from the edges. It is 127.4…
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Record ID: SUSS-275044
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially worked prehistoric flint tool, possibly dating to the later Neolithic period (c. 2700-2351 BC). This tool is similar to 'Acheulian' handaxes of the Lower Palaeolithic, in that it is bifacially worked and roughly piriform in plan; however, its finely worked sub-oval cutting edge and elongated form, coupled with its asymmetrically bi-convex cross-section suggests a Neolithic date. Similar to adzes from the Neolithic period, this tool has one 'humped' or arched face with a flatter, albeit worked, opposite face. The tool's distal end has been modified, possibly for hafting, w…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-DD6F65
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flaked flint adze, knapped from a grey flint, 156mm in length. The sides on the long axis of the tool are roughly parallel, tapering to rounded ends and with a lenticular cross section. The side profile is convex suggesting a function as an adze and the working edge is rounded but has been damaged. The flint has heavily recorticated with a white patina derived from prolonged deposition in calcareous sediments and there is also extensive post depositional iron staining.
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SF-102FB8
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint late Mesolithic to early Neolithic probable adze. It is largely straight-sided (although both sides curved outwards very slightly), tapering slightly towards one end, with rounded ends and an irregular flattened lozenge-shaped cross-section. There is invasive, scaled flaking on both faces and a possible attempt at a tranchet flake removal from one face of the cutting edge. There is some damage around the butt end and a small section missing here. There is also a notch caused by damage to the blade ned. The flint is a mid-grey in colour with slight patination on one…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-0F929F
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint late Mesolithic to early Neolithic probable adze. It is straight-sided, tapering slightly towards one end, with rounded ends and an irregular plano-convex cross-section. There is invasive, scaled flaking on both faces and a possible attempt at a tranchet flake removal from one face of the cutting edge. There is some damage around the butt end and possibly a small section missing here. The flint is a mid-grey in colour with slight patination and some orange staining in places.
The presence of a potential tranchet flake suggests that this example may be of late Me…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-699743
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete partially polished flint adze dating to the Neolithic period, c. 4000-2500 BC. Under Clough's axe schema (Clough et al 1979), the piece corresponds his type E, 'D-sectioned' pieces. The adze has been manufactured on a piece of unpatinated greyish flint with mottled brown and black patches, originally by knapping a roughout and then by intensive grinding and polishing localised to the cutting edge and bottom third of the object. It is broadly sub-rectangular in form and plano-convex in section, with a squared off butt, slightly convex cutting edge, strongly curving section, …
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-CFC2B1
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic adze blade, measuring 110 x 54 x 17mm. It is made on a long sub-triangular flake with blunting retouch along both lateral edges and some shallow retouch across the broad blade edge. A few scalar scars on the ventral face of the blade edge may be from use. It is patinated a dusty grey colour. It probably dates from 4000- 2300 BC.
Created on: Monday 6th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
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This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.
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