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Record ID: LANCUM-F78697
Object type: SCULPTURE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small stone sculpture of a female goddess nursing an infant (Dea Nutrix). It is complete except the head. The female is draped in dress and cloak and breast-feeding a small child. This suggests the representation of another form of Mother Goddess as a "nursing mother", i.e. Dea Nutrix. Statues like this one but made from clay were mass-produced in Gaul and exported to Britain - they all show the young goddess seated in a high-backed wicker chair nursing one or two infants.
An unusually complex fourth-century infant grave excavated in Baldock, Herts., in 1988 produced a compl…
Created on: Friday 12th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Maryport', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-396F9C
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic to early Bronze Age polished stone perforated object, dating to c. 2800 - 2100 BC. The object is sub-rectangular with slightly convex sides, it is pointed oval in section. Positioned in the centre is a circular perforation which has a slight hourglass form. The butt of the object is slightly rounded towards the butt and shows some wear through use. The opposing edge slopes more sharply into the cutting edge, this is mostly worn through use. The surface on all sides is smooth and only slightly pitted. The stone is dark grey in colour.
Length: 102 mm…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-4EF065
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone tool, possibly used as a scraper or whetstone. It is sub rectangular in shape but one of the long sides extends to form a point with the short side, the other short end is rounded. All four sides narrow to a point, which thus runs around the circumference of the object. It is not knapped but ground, the stone is possibly granite. It has an even brown patina with a granular appearance all over the surface. Dating this type of implement is difficult as whetstones were in use over a long period. An object with a similar 'bladed' side is PUBLIC-BD3717 and NLM-47EC…
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-08DFB5
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age or Romano-British broken quern stone. The length is 300mm and width is 160mm.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'BECKFOOT', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-1286D5
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unfinished roughout of a Neolithic axehead dating to c.4000-2350 BC. Made of Langdale tuff, fitting into Group VI.
The axehead is sub-triangular in shape with a rounded butt that gradually tapers to a rounded edge. It has a broadly pointed oval cross section. The edges are unfinished and are knapped. One face is smooth and polished with a noticable bulb of percussion. The other face is rough and a large flake has been struck from near the butt end. The stone has a dark grey patina.
Dimensions: Length 153.4mm; width (butt) 61.71mm; width (narrow end) 46mm; thickness 27.23m…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th February 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-BB5F75
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small piece of Lakeland green slate that has had a hole drilled near the centre of the top edge. The hole is now incomplete and probably broke during manufacture as the slate is only crudely dressed. The marks from the boring show that the hole was an 'hourglass' hole. It may have been intended as one of a series of drilled objects to be used on a necklace, bracelet or similar. Date is uncertain (c2500BC-c800BC) but Castlerigg circle is in the vicinity so a Bronze Age date seems likely. Measures 18.5x12.5x4mm. Weighs 1.2 grms.
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
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This findspot is known as 'near Castlerigg', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-DC7DC7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Five weights, stone and ceramic? Thesecould been net weights for fishing nets or have been perforated by marine moluscs.
1. Large red weight: WE: ca. 500g; LE: 110mm; WI: 88mm; HE: 63mm; Description: Large weight of round/trapezoidal shape. The surface is smooth and it is of dark red colour. It has one large central perforation which is very worn on one side.
2. Small dark red weight: WE: 100.75g; LE: 46mm; Diameter: 40mm; Description: Oval loomweight with central perforation. It is of dark red colour and has a smooth surface.
3. Small orange weight: WE: 167.76g; LE: 52…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2005
Last updated: Friday 25th June 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-ED8B0D
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman to Medieval stone weight, probably a spindle-whorl or loom weight. It is rather heavy for a spindle whorl unless it was used to produce a very strong thread or cord. The stone it is made from is a fine grained micaeous sandstone. The artefact is of sub-rectangular section with flat faces, with incised decoration on both faces and around side wall. The side wall is decorated with a continuous incised line around its centre. Both main faces are decorated with a series of nine incised lines radiating out from the central perforation and terminating at an incised border parallel wit…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-35CCF6
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age perforated object, probably an axe hammer dating from c. 2500-1500BC. The axe hammer was fabricated from an unidentified igneous rock. In plan, the axe hammer is broadly drop shaped, with a circular perforation towards the butt. The perforation has curved sides and the circumference reduces towards its centrepoint - it is hour glass shaped. The pierced sides of the axe hammer are largely flattened although there is a marked incline around the area of the socket and the butt. The edge which runs around the axe hammer is concave at the butt,…
Created on: Friday 18th March 2011
Last updated: Sunday 2nd February 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Greysouthen', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-D53DD8
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age axe head roughout made from a tertiary flake of a Lakeland tuff. The tuff is similar to, but coarser grained than Langdale tuff. The roughout is thick-butted, double convex in section, sub-rectangular in plan, has crudely sub-rounded ends, and expands in plan from both the butt and the blade end to reach its maximum width 68mm from the blade end. Dates to between c2700 and c1600 BC.
The length is 177mm, width 83mm, thickness 52mm, and the weight 711.4g.
The rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition with…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2019
Last updated: Sunday 6th October 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Keswick Ward', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-4EBF20
Object type: BOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Stone object that has been engraved to use as a Roman merels board also called 'Nine Men's Morris'. The merels board has three squares, inside each other, and connected with four lines. The length is 160mm, the width is 100mm and the weight too heavy for scales.
The Rules of Merels, or Nine Men's Morris:
1. At the start, one of the players has 9 white counters and the other has 9 black counters.
2. Take it in turns to place one of your counters on a dot on the board.
3. Try to get three counters in a row, all along one line (the diagonal doesn't count). If you get three in…
Created on: Monday 17th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-D855C3
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete polished stone Langdale Tuff axehead of Neolithic date (3500-2400 BC). The handaxe is broken at the cutting edge and at the butt end. The surface of the axe is granular but smooth with a distinct blue green hue. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and tapers inward toward the butt and is sub-ovate is section with slightly flattened sides. The blade end tapers out to the sided and in along the blade edge. The axe is broken at the blade and along one side. It is possible that it has been ritually broken.
The object is a Langdale polished Axehead, called as such due to…
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-B0BEB7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete stone flat or discoidal spindle whorl, of Neolithic to Medieval dating (BC 3500 - AD 1900). Around 75% of the spindle whorl is present. Both faces of the spindle whorl are flat and undecorated; a circular perforation runs through the the centre, presumably for attachment to a wooden spindle (now missing). The spindle whorl is made from a fine-grained sandstone. The whorl is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile, with parallel faces. The central hole is sub circular in shape and has been drilled slightly off central, from both sides. The internal diameter of the…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-53EA48
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished Langdale axe fragment of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). Probably of Group VI (Langdales, Cumbria): The axe was knapped and polished/finished, but then broke. Only about a quarter or slightly less of the original axe survives. The breaks are all old.
The axe was knapped from a greenish/grey buff volcanic tuff. This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition with infrequent crystalline inclusions. Tuff is found in Britain and Ireland in a band that runs down the Irish Sea from the Lake District (the Langdale's source Group …
Created on: Friday 27th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Burgh', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-0C7D7D
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large middle to late Neolithic axehead roughout made from a Cumbrian Group VI Langdale tuff dating from ca. 3500-2500BC. The roughout is in very good condition, with only little modern damage. All surfaces are worked. The roughout is thin-butted, double convex in section and has one crudely rounded and one almost rectangular end: the latter one would have been shaped into the blade. It expands in plan from both the butt and the blade end to reach its maximum width about midway along its length.
Other records of 'long' rough outs made from Langdale tuff include LANCUM-7BE356, LA…
Created on: Wednesday 29th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Isel', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-D86BA5
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone perforated axe-hammer of probably the very late Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, dating from c. BC 2500 - c. BC 1800.
Axe-hammers are also known as Battle Axes and some of the smaller examples have been recorded as perforated maces (mace-heads). The differences between these types / classifications are uncertain and the artefact type as a whole is in need of reassessment in line with modern discoveries and approaches to artefact studies. This is further complicated by signs of water wear on the artefact making it difficult to definitively identify as an axe hammer or mac…
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-9379A7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a whetstone of early medieval date, c. 9th-11th century. Rectangular in shape and cross-section; very smooth sides.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Alston Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-43462A
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic Langdale axe dating from c. 2500-2100BC. The axe is somewhat worn and abraded with some older damage and a few recent chips taken off. The axe was ground and polished and has a very smooth, shiny surface. It is now of dirty-white/beige colour but was probably dark blueish green to start with. The axe is knapped from a light blueish/grey buff volcanic tuff. This axe is, like many of the larger and finished (polished) Langdale axes, sub-rectangular plan with distinctive humped faces. The axe fragment has been damaged in several areas (old and fresh damage). The recent damage c…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Maryport', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-F6E1E6
Object type: ALTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head fragment of Roman altar, possibly displaying the god Mercury. It is a large sandstone fragment which is very worn.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Maryport', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-E4114D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly complete upper half of a Roman beehive quern, probably dating from the 2nd century AD. The stone is very heavy and dome-shaped with a very worn, but probably formerly fluted upper surface. The bottom is flat. Only a small part is missing, but the central perforation as well as the side hole for the wooden handle are still present. Unmalted grain would have been poured into the vertical perforation at the top whilst there would have been a wooden handle in the horizontal hole for turning the quern stone on top of the lower stone. The rotary quern used circular motions to grind t…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2017
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Bootle', grid reference and parish protected.
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