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Record ID: SUSS-4DD356
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five flint cores and core fragments, some with evidence of retouch. First core weighs 33.8 grams. Flat piece with cortex to top and bottom. Working around three sides includes evidence for flake removal and working off several edges including the edge of the natural break on the fourth side. Medium brown flint with a paler and darker mottling. Second core weighs 35.8 grams. Large flake removed off a core, probably a core refreshment flake. The piece has a large bulb of percussion and ripples on the ventral side where the piece was removed from the core. There is evidence (short …
Created on: Friday 13th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DEV-D88B09
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two retouched flakes of a dark grey flint, both of which retain their original white-buff cortex over the distal end. They are both sub-rectangular in shape with numerous flake scars across the two dorsal faces. The larger of the two shows a natural break on the right dorsal margin, where the flint has sheered off forming an almost straight edge, there is an area of long scalar semi-abrupt retouch adjacent to the break, possibly an attaempt to create a notch that was abandoned. The smaller of the two has a distinctive grey spot of patina in the centre of its ventral face and short, sc…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-A3A6BF
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably incomplete leaf shaped arrow head of Neolithic date (4000-2350 BC). The flake is bifacially worked with slightly convex faces. It is transversally broken at the top (distal end) with an old patnated break. It is also broken at the bottom, slightly on one side, with a large inwards break on the other, these breaks are only partially patinated, sugesting they are more recent damage. The flake has an invasive parallel shallow retouch on both sides along both edges apart from the right edge near the proximal end on the ventral face. The flint has a white/pale grey patina. It me…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-CABC4C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint scrapers, probably dating to c. 4000-1,500BC. A flint scraper worked from a secondary or tertiary flake with a small area of white patina on the right distal edge of the dorsal face. The dorsal face has two parallel blade or long flakes scars with short, semi-abrupt scalar retouch along the left edge, becoming long, parallel abrupt at the distal end and short, scalar again at the right proximal edge. The ventral face has a relatively pronounced bulb of percussion at the proximal end with several bulb scars. The scraper is a translucent grey…
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-CB843C
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete leaf shaped arrow head of Neolithic date (4000-2350 BC). The ventral surface is smooth with a low diffuse bulb of percussion and widely spaced conchoidal ripple marks. Both of the long sides have short, semi-parallel low angle retouch running along their entire length, lightly more invasive on one edge than the other, while the base shows signs longer, more invasive semi-parallel shallow retouch, possibly to thin the bulb of percussion and striking platform for hafting. The dorsal face has invasive semi-parallel scaled retouch down one edge, and short, shallow, semi-parall…
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-1796A5
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late Neolithic flint polished axe head dating to the period (2900-2100BC). The axe is knapped from a light grey coloured flint; with substantial light brown inclusions toward the butt. The axe head is broadly triangular and tapers evenly in width along its length from the widest point at the blade to a rounded butt. In plan the sides of the axe taper evenly in a convex curve to both ends from the thickest point which is 25% of the way along from the cutting edge to the butt. The axe is broadly pointed oval in cross section with convex faces and slightly flattened edges g…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 30th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-862E2A
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chip from a Mesolithic to Neolithic flint core dating to the period c. 8000 -2350 BC. The remaining piece retains no cortex, and is irregular in shape with a convex ventral surface formed of a very large percussion bulb. The core had two striking platforms roughly at right angles to each other, and at least three negative flake scars from previous flake removals, the size and shape of which suggests that this core was used for the production of blades or bladelets. The flint itself is dark grey with light grey and off-white inclusions. It is 25.00mm in length, with a maximum wid…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
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Record ID: SOM-86725D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of eight pieces of flint and chert debitage of Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age date (c. 6000 - 1500 BC). Two of the pieces, have been struck off a secondary flake, retaining between 5 and 50% of their cortex, while the rest have been struck off a tertiary flakes retaining no cortex. Two of the pieces, both flint, are in the form of a blade with three negative flake scars, on the dorsal face, and low diffuse bulbs of percussion with weakly defined conchoidal ripple marks on the ventral face. The remaining pieces conist of three 'blade like flakes', which lack the paral…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
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Record ID: SOM-89CA3D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probably Neolithic flint core dating to the period c.4000-2350BC, probably a core refreshment flake. The core, has a C-shaped profile, and retains >25% of its thick, cortex, covering one side. A clear bulb of percussion on the ventral faceshows where it has been struck of the core, there is also a large chip from this face. The dorsal face shows the end of removals that have come down towards a point from several different places around a platform suggesting this was the point of a conical core. Some of the removals appear blade like but only small sections remain maki…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-86D476
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A retouched flake in the form of a side scraper of probable Neolithic date (c. 4000 - 2350 BC). The piece, is broadly retangular in shape, with a slightly convex ventral face, and has been struck off a tertriary flake as no cortex remains. The ventral surface, exhibits a prominent bulbar scar, with a prominent bulb of percussion and closely spaced well defined conchoidal ripple marks but the bulb and striking platform have been removed by retouch. The dorsal surface, has five negative flake scars from previous removals, in two groups, 90 degrees from each other. One of the mesal edges…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.