Record ID: YORYM-502EF8
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped lithic implement of Mesolithic date, circa 7000 - 4000 BC. The implement is a piece of debitage, or waste material, produced during the knapping process. It is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-D-shaped in section. The bulb of percussion and striking platform remain on the ventral surface from which ripples of percussion radiate. The dorsal surface is irregular with flakes of varying sizes having been removed. Short, parallel retouch is present along both sides and also the flattened distal end. The flint is a light grey colour. The implement is 20.5mm long, 11.1m…
Created on: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-3EF90D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped lithic implement of Mesolithic date, circa 7000 - 4000 BC. The implement is a piece of debitage, or waste material, produced during the knapping process. It is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-D-shaped in section. The bulb of percussion and striking platform no longer remain and the ventral surface is smooth though displays faint ripples of percussion. The dorsal surface is irregular with numerous flakes of varying sizes having been removed. A small notch is present on the right mesial edge along which abrupt retouch is present. The flint is a light greyish-brown …
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

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: SOM-670FF7
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 53 pieces of flint debitage, the waste material from flint working. Based on their form and other worked flint found with them including tools and cores the debitage pieces probably range from Mesolithic to Bronze Age in date, about 9000 BC to 800 BC. The colour of the flint debitage ranges from mid brown-grey to pale grey some, mostly the blade like pieces, with a thick white patina. Rows 1 to 4 are all blades or snapped blades and tertiary pieces. C3 and D3 are patinated across the snap, all the other snaps are unpatinated, and possibly recent. Rows 5 to 8 are al…
Created on: Tuesday 21st October 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th February 2015
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Record ID: NLM-358F94
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Toffee coloured clouded and opaque flint. Knife. Narrow rod shaped blade. Four very long parallel flake removal scars on the dorsal aspect confer an angular plano-convex profile; very faint rippling on the ventral side shows where the flake was detached from a core. Some slight abrasions along the edge have been smoothed. Though the object has a glossy surface overall, possibly a result of curation in antiquity, the context could equally suggest this appealing finish to be the result of wave action. Kevin Leahy kindly comments as follows: 'An interesting object. Without retouch t…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimsby', grid reference and parish protected.