Record ID: SUSS-889A55
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An end scraper. There is long, parallel, abrupt retouch around the proximal end on the ventral face, removing the striking platform. There may also have been very short, abrupt retouch on the distal end to produce an irregular outline, although this may also be due to natural fracture when the flake was sruck from the core. Unlike with thumbnail or round scrapers the retouch covers only a small part of the circumference. The scraper was made on a secondary flake, c.5% cortex remains, with a prominent bulb of percussion. The flint is pale grey with mottled lighter grey inclusions. The s…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-852F03
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint bladelet with a bulb of percussion visible at one shorter end and a hinge fracture at the other; it is rounded at this latter end. The flint is a light grey colour with some patches of iron staining. There are two removals down the length of the flake on the dorsal face while the ventral face is smooth, as struck. The edges are serrated, but no obvious human retouch can be discerned. The object has the following dimensions: Weight: 3.24g, Length: 40.33mm, Width: 18.86mm, Thickness: 3.51mm. It can be dated broadly from the Mesolithic to Neolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 5th August 2008
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Horsted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-613D31
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen pieces of small debitage all with evidence of slight burning, probably accidental. Mostly tertiary chips with some secondary (up to 20% cortex). Pale grey – dark grey flint. Total weight 24.4 grams.
Created on: Sunday 31st January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-6181D1
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six waste flakes and one snapped blade with possible use chipping in places from informal tool use. Four tertiary pieces including the blade and three secondary flakes with c. 5 to 10% cortex remaining. All show evidence of careful knapping with long parallel arrises on many. Dark to light grey mottled flint, some with orange iron staining; the snapped blade is in high quality translucent dark grey flint. Total weight 45.2 grams.
Created on: Sunday 31st January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-62B4D0
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thirteen large waste flakes. Two tertiary pieces, ten secondary flakes with c. 5 to 20% cortex remaining and one primary flake showing all stages of knapping were being carried out. Three show evidence of burning. Dark to light grey mottled flint, with one orange-brown piece. Largest (primary flake) 63 grams, smallest (one of the burnt pieces) 5 grams, total weight 238 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-62D497
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thirty pieces of small debitage (max 8 grams min less than 1 gram). Mostly tertiary chips with some secondary flakes (up to 75% cortex remaining on one side). Pale grey – dark grey flint, the paler material mostly mottled. Total weight 117 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-62EC10
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nine waste flakes, some of which are probably core rejuvination flakes (max 5 grams, min less than 1 gram). Two tertiary flakes the remainder secondary (up to 50% cortex remaining on one side). Mostly dark grey flint with two paler grey pieces with darker mottling. Total weight 37 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-6973F8
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eight core rejuvination flakes (max 37 grams, min 4 gram). Three tertiary flakes the remainder secondary (up to 20% cortex remaining on one side). Three dark grey flint; one mid-dark orange brown, one pale grey and three mid grey pieces with darker mottling. Some have areas of hackling from post deposition damage including light burning. Total weight 105 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-69A7C3
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eleven bladelets (max 3.1 grams, min 0.3 gram); none appear to be retouched suggesting they are have been discarded with the remainder of the knapping waste. They are finely knapped with long, parallel arises. One secondary flake (10% cortex on one side) the remainder are tertiary. Ranging from dark to light grey flint, the lighter pieces are less translucent and mottled with ligher/darker areas. Total weight 15.7 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-69CE82
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sixteen microliths formed from snapped blades/bladelets (max 2.3 grams, min 0.2 gram); none appear to be retouched suggesting they are have been discarded with the remainder of the knapping waste. They are finely knapped with long, parallel arises. One secondary piece (30% cortex on one side) the remainder are tertiary. Ranging from dark to light grey flint, the lighter pieces are less translucent and mottled with ligher/darker areas. Total weight 15.9 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-69DE56
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The distal end of a snapped blade, multiple parallel arises on the dorsal face, no evidence of retouch. Pale grey-beige with fine lighter and darker mottling. Total weight 4.84 grams.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-69FA86
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
25 flint cores, most with evidence of parallel blade/bladelet removals, some with multi-platform working. All incomplete due to accidental/natural breaks. 1)Irregularly shaped removals from multiple platforms, c.2% cortex remaining at one point. Mid to pale mottled grey flint. Weight: 96g Length: 53.86mm Width: 44.24mm Thickness: 42.16mm 2) Evidence of a prepared platform at one end with cortex remaining at the distal end and partilly covering the prepared platform. The other side has an accidental and perhaps post-deposition break. c.10% cortex remaining. Mid to pale mottled…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-741926
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint tertiary blade struck off a prepared platform with possibly retouch at one end. The blade is long, trapizoid in section rising to triangular at the distal end and slightly curved in profile. The ventral face has a bulb of percussion at one end, percussion waves and several damage scars down the right and left edges. At the right edge of the distla end on the ventral face is a short length of regular short semi abrupt chipping, probably retouch, the distal tip beyond is broken. The dorsal face has two parallel arises from previous removals and damage from mis-strikes a…
Created on: Monday 20th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ewhurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-322A38
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 cores and a core fragment. One shows clear evidence of neat parallel bladelet removals, the other is more ambigious and could have had blade or flake removals. The fragment has more irregular multi-platform work. This reflects the different stages of flint work present here (Mesolithic-Early Neolithic and Bronze Age). The two cores show evidence of working down to the nub extracting small flakes. The pieces vary from baige, to grey to black. The remaining cortex indcate pebble flint. The bladelet core weighs 11.78 grams, the second core weights 13.21 grams and a combined weight for …
Created on: Friday 18th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-33AB31
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic blade fragment. The blade is broken above the distal end so there is no visible striking platform or bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The dorsal face has two paralell arises. The blade has a light grey patina on the surface, at the break the patina is a mid brown. The blade fragment is 19.25 mm in length, 11.75 mm wide and weighs 0.65 grams.
Created on: Friday 18th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Withycombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8AAE74
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Microlith of later Mesolithic date. The piece has a sharp triangular point with an irregular, accidental, break at the wide end. The piece is made from the centre of a tertiary blade with the point towards the proximal end and a broken distal end. The dorsal face is highly arched with evidence for previous removals. There is short, scalar to sub-parallel abrupt to semi-abrupt retouch around the tip of the point and down both sides as far as the break. The flint is dark grey with paler mottling. It is 23.2mm long, 11.3mm wide and 3.6mm thick; it weighs 1.08.
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Cuthbert Out', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-4D2515
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three fragments of flint cores. Total weight: 65.48g. 1. Blade core with long parallel removals from one end, c.20% cortex on one face at distal end, mid to pale grey, 30.41 grams. 2. Blade core with long parallel removals form one end, break at the distal end, c.5% cortex on dorsal face, mid grey flint with pale mottling, 14.20 grams. 3. Remains of a core, the removal scars are mostly for small flakes but there are also many mis-hits at the proximal end on the dorsal face and distal end on the ventral face. This suggests an attempt to use the core down to the smallest fragment,…
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe Florey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-4D31C6
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal piece of a chert core with evidence of long parallel removals from the same direction. Dark brown chert, 9.61 grams.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe Florey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-4D67D6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fifteen small blades and fragments of flint blades. Some of the fragments appear to have been deliberately broken and represent proximal ends and central sections. Mostly pale grey to pale buff with two in dark brown translucent flint and one in dark grey with paler mottling. 29.86 grams, the largest 4.94 grams and the smallest 0.45 grams.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe Florey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-4D96A2
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two distal ends of chert blades, one pale buff, one mid grey, 3.91 grams
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe Florey CP', grid reference and parish protected.