Record ID: BH-9B5F56
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint pickaxe, probably dating from the Mesolithic period (c. 10,000 BC to c. 4,001 BC). This would appear to be a double-ended implement, with a pick at one end and an axe-like blade at the other. Most of the surface of the original nodule has been removed, but one side in particular retains a significant portion of its cortex. The narrowest point is at the pick end, where the surfaces have been deliberately sloped to point, which exhibits signs of wear. The sides gradually diverge from this point, the implement reaching a maximum width approximately one third of the way…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 19th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-4C0382
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Mesolithic flint microlith. The piece is sub-triangular, with a horizontal break (possibly deliberate) at the wider end. A longitudinal ridge extends down the centre of the dorsal surface, creating a triangular profile. Blunting appears to be confined to the longer side, where it has occurred along the entire length. The point has been cut off, removing the bulb-of-percussion, the original position of which is indicated by the direction of the ripples on the ventral surface. The flint is patinated and bluish-grey. Length: 25.4mm; width: 12.8mm; thickness: 2.1mm; weight: 0.62g.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flitwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-624D80
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flint tranchet axe/adze, asymmetric section, one face keeled, other convex, fully flaked over all. Light brown opaque flint, some signs of patination. Tranchet sharpening unclear. Length 135mm, Width 44mm, Thickness 33mm. Mass not recorded.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knotty Green', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-CF34F6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint blade. The presence of a very slight bulb of percussion suggests soft hammer production. A conchoidal fracture can be seen on the dorsal face. Two other angles have also been struck from the strike platform forming a sub-triangular cross-section across the blade. The stike platform is unclear suggesting that it may have been chipped or damaged during deposition. Two parallel blades have been removed from this piece of flint, one half seems to have been removed in two sections, one above the other. There is no evidence of retouch. The blade is thin enough to be translu…
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walton on the Nase Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BB87BF
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A recorticated tertiary flint core. This core has a sub-trapezoidal to sub-triangular cross-section and sub oval shape with a single flaking direction. It was used in the production of broad blades suggesting an Early Mesolithic or Early Neolithic date. Possible presence of core dressing. Probably a Clark (1960) Type A2. Weight 11.41g, length 50.3mm, maximum width 17.9mm, maximum thickness 11.6mm. Finder's reference: SP6.
Created on: Friday 16th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-1A2E18
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint tranchet axehead from the early Mesolithic period (c.9000 - 8000 BC). The flint is a dark brownish-grey and fairly opaque with elements of the cortex visible. The axe is crudely worked, with a rounded cutting edge, roughly parallel sides and a pointed butt. It has a broadly triangular cross-section. The flint appears to be in the second stage of being worked due to the patches of cortex on its butt and and its ventral and dorsal faces. Also, a soft hammering technique seems to have been used, identifiable by the weak ripple marks and low bulbs of percussion. The broad shape of…
Created on: Monday 14th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-56098E
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Mesolithic to Neolithic retouched flake, dating 10,000-2,350 BC. The flake is triangular in shape with evidence of retouch on both sides. Faint traces of a bulb of percussion are visible on one side, though few other indicators of knapping are present. One tip of the object also appears to have broken away, probably during knapping. Due to the incompleteness of this object it is difficult to further specify a period of production. Dimensions: length: 35.28 mm; width: 44.46 mm; thickness: 10.74 mm; weight: 20.12g.
Created on: Monday 7th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-E3EA72
Object type: MICROBURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Highly patinated probable microlith of late Mesolithic date 6500-3500 BC. The microlith is sub-triangular in plan and formed from the very base of a snapped flint blade. There is no evidence for retouch or secondary working Microliths have multiple uses from being set to form harpoons and arrows too small saws and other utilitarian tool types. It is possible gived the pointed nature of the tip of the flint that this may possibly have been a Microburin like tool - the flint is too heavily eroded to be sure - there is no evidence for detailed retouch around the tip which may substant…
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-83889C
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Mesolithic to Early Neolithic flint adze or axehead (c. 10000 BC-c. 3500 BC). This implement is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. One face has been entirely knapped and the other face has about 70% cortex. The flaking at the cutting edge end is long and short, scaled and semi-abrupt. The cortex is grey and buff and the flaked areas have a grey patina with creamy mottling and some iron staining. A modern chip near the butt end on the cortex reveals that the flint is dark grey. Length: 157.0mm; width: 60.9mm; thickness: 37.5mm. Weig…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0FB014
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Perforated stone object dating from the Early Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic. It is complete and in good shape except for a few abrasions around the outer edge. The implement is a simple one with a generally very uneven donut-shape and a circular central perforation which was probably drilled using a bow-like device and a stick with a rounded point, water and sand. The material which the axe hammer was made from looks like the quartz dolerite from the whin sill which was used to make axe-hammers during the Early Bronze Age (pers. comm. Dr Kevin Leahy). Whin sill deposits can be foun…
Created on: Friday 18th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greystoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-ADDB23
Object type: BURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint burin, dating to c. 10000 - 4000 BC. The burin is made of a tertiary flake of brown flint with a low gloss patina, the majority of the object has patinated to an off white pale blue. The tool is broadly sub-triangular in plan and trapezoidal in cross section. The front face of the blade (dorsal face) has a number of areas of small retouch along both edges. The distal face has not been worked, ripple marks are visible. Length: 88.79 mm Width: 32.44 mm Thickness: 8.37 mm Weight: 31.76 g
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-EE4C75
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint core of early Mesolithic or early Neolithic date. The core is cylindrical with one platform and parallel striking of narrow blades. One face of the object has narrower scars from blade removal while on the opposite face wider blades have been removed down the length of the core with shorter narrower blades removed from above (towards the striking platform) at a diagonal angle to the lower removals. The removed flints appear to have been blades. There is no visible sign of platform dressing. A strip of light cream cortex remains along the length of one side of the core…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnby Moor', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM-F840B7
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint microlith of an opaque creamy coloured flint. The left upper edge has a retouched obliquely blunted point and the central face is plain with some concoidal marking. The length is 35.2mm, the width is 7.7mm, the thickness is 3.4mm and the weight is 0.72g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F84793
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic side and end scraper. The opaque dark brown flint has a large patch on cortex and a flake scar on the dorsal face. The distal end and right edge has steep parallel retouch. The ventral face is plain, with some concoidal marks. The length is 22.5mm, the width is 29.3mm, the thickness is 8.9mm and the weight is 7.79g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F85194
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic circular scraper of an opaque off white flint. The entire circumference has long parallel retouch on the dorsal face. The ventral face is plain with a small bulb of percussion. The length is 28.2mm, the width is 24.7mm, the thickness is 10.7mm and the weight is 9.14g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F858B4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic end scraper. The opaque grey flint has cream patches and a large patch of cortex on the dorsal face. The distal end of the dorsal face has invasive scaled retouch and the ventral face is plain with a small bulb of percussion. The length is 32.6mm, the width is 30.9mm, the thickness is 7.9mm and the weight is 9.37g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F867E6
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic flint scraper/knife. The fine translucent grey flint has invasive scaled retouch on one side and the back is plain with a concoidal flake scar. The length is 34.8mm, the width is 22.7mm, the thickness is 7.5mm and the weight is 5.11g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F88521
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic scraper of a pale grey opaque flint. The dorsal face has retouch on the distal end and on both edges and the ventral face is plain with a small bulb of percussion. The length is 38.0mm, the width is 31.6mm, the thickness is 10.1mm and the weight is 14.81g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F88C87
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic end scraper. The pale cream opaque flint has lighter inclusions. The dorsal face has retouch on the distal end and the ventral face is plain with a small bulb of percussion and a concoidal flake scar. The length is 36.7mm, the width is 26.8mm, the thickness is 8.8mm and the weight is 9.01g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-F89215
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to Neolithic retouched flake of a translucent pale brown flint. The dorsal face has a small area of short retouch on the proximal end and the ventral face is plain with a concoidal bulb of percussion. The length is 35.3mm, the width is 21.0mm, the thickness is 4.6mm and the weight is 2.78g.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.