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-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-F41A76
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a stone that appears to in the form of a claw. It was found in the River Ribble and is water damaged and may have be natural and sculptured by the water. Having said that it does appear to have been worked and is likely to be either an architectural fragment or a component element of a sculpture. Period unknown but possibly post-medieval. The length is 90mm, the width is 48mm thickness 36mm and the weight 203.25g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-686E06
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete though probably unfinished stone axehead probably a roughout of Neolithic date, c. 3500 - 2100 BC discovered below the foundations of a cottage garden wall. The axehead is possibly of the Graig Lwyd Group VII axe - the patina looks the type and the white speckles on a blue-grey matrix is typical of the rock type or it could be an epidiotised greenstone Group VI Langdale axe. The axe head is trapezoidal in plan with a pointed ovate section. The surfaces are rough with a chip to one side of the butt edge. The unpolished nature of the object suggests it was not properly finish…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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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-471C9D
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a late Neolithic to early Bronze Age axe head roughout made from a tertiary flake of Langdale tuff. Triangular in plan with a rounded butt end and sharp distal end, it is triangular in section. The base is slightly curved and convex while the upper surface shows a large bulb of percussion and secondary removals. The length is 120mm, the width is 80mm thickness 25mm and the weight 103.95g. 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…
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2016
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Record ID: LANCUM-46ACF8
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a late Neolithic to early Bronze Age axe head roughout made from a tertiary flake of Langdale tuff. Triangular in plan, profile and section; the base being slightly convex, but almost flat. The piece is bevelled to a broad edge at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, having numerous flakes removed from the bevelled edge. This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition with infrequent…
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2016
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Record ID: LANCUM-8C7927
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Mesolithic translucent white quartz or quartzite scalene triangle, or micro-triangular, microlith, probably a barb. While it is largely the same in plan as a flint barb, it is twice as thick due the coarser crystaline structure of its raw material. There are removals to the entire surface and a dark silver grey inclusion on the centre of the dorsal side. The proximal end has been finished with a single removal. Retouch confined to the dorsal side and is covering, sub-parallel, and abrupt on one mesal, semi-abrupt on the other. The unusual choice of knapping stone, given the local…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wentnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2C8D53
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Neolithic to early Bronze Age banded pale pink rhyolite blade with an end scraper and probable side scrapers. There has been attempt to reduce one of the ridges. One face is polished by wear, providing clues as to how it was initially used, ie as a side scraper. The mesal edges have occasional retouch, mostly short, parallel, low angled. The end scraper has been produced by short to medium, scaled & crossed abrubt to semi abrupt retouch. The striking platform has been removed with a single flake and the edges of the scar retouched (medium, sub parallel, low angle). The rhyolite …
Created on: Friday 2nd May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lothersdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4F8B52
Object type: LAMP
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly lamp formed on an axe shaped stone. The shape of the stone may be fortuitous but has then had a recess pecked into it, and a shallower channel pecked in a rough curve coming out of it. These features are outlined on the second photo. The purpose of these modifications is unknown but it would have made a functional oil/fat lamp. When placed with the pecked feature uppermost, the object is stable. There are depressions on either side of the objects 'waist' that may be artificial, but these are so worn that it is now impossible to know if they are or not. It is possible that the…
Created on: Monday 21st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4F71B1
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Mid to late Neolithic axehead roughout made from a tertiary flake of Langdale tuff. The roughout is thin-butted, double convex in section, has crudely rounded ends, and expands in plan from both the butt and the blade end to reach its maximum width midway along its length. Dates to between c3500 and c2350 BC. The length is 182mm, width 67mm, and the thickness 45mm. Other records of 'long' rough outs made from Langdale tuff include LANCUM-7BE356, LANCUM-799F15, and possibly LANCUM-79B9A5. This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition …
Created on: Monday 21st April 2014
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4F60E1
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic to mid Bronze Age quartzite perforated implement made by modifying a natural quartzite pebble by drilling an hour glass mounting hole. Often described as mace heads, partly due to similar objects being used as such in parts of Africa, the exact purpose of these perforated stones is unclear. However this one demonstrates wear on its point consistent with being used to strike a hard surface. It can therefore be supposed that this artefact may have fractured during use. Dates to between c10000 and c1000 BC. These objects are hard to date as perforated objects with hour glass h…
Created on: Monday 21st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton-in-Kendal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2C9631
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to early Neolithic tertiary flake of off white translucent quartz. Probably debitage but possibly a poorly made bladelet or microlith as there is retouch (short, sub-parallel, abrupt) along one mesal. It has been snapped off at the proximal end and the distal terminates in flawed stone. Dates to between c8000 and c3500 BC. The length is 10mm, width 5mm, and the weight is 0.11g.
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Asby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DD46E5
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hand axe roughout made from stone - possibly chert. The object appears to have been knapped from a large flake, showing a bulb of percussion on one face and has secondary flaking around all edges to create a cutting edge. It is unclear whether this represents a finished tool or an unfinished roughout. The colour of the roughout is also similar to volcanic tuff which makes for the possibility that it came originally from Langdale which is typically similar to a number of axes in the collection of Kendal Museum and Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, which have been petrog…
Created on: Monday 9th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scafell Pike', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2E67E5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to early Bronze Age worked white quartz or quartzite scraper. Its overall plan is D shaped, with the straight edge being the working edge. Due to the nature of it crystal structure, this material is hard to date from its working. As it bears a similarity to a D shaped scraper, it would be reasonable to assume that its most likely date of manufacture was late Neolithic to early Bronze Age. Dating to between c7000 to c1601 BC, probably to between c2700 and c1601 BC. The length is 10mm, width 10mm, and the thickness 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wycoller', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B86AC5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete shaped stone disc made from coarse sandstone / fine grit-stone. The stone appears dark brown on the outside, partly through weathering and has a large quantity if yellow/brown inclusions which appear to be flecks of ironstone or iron ore. The upper surface has been worked into a fairly smooth dome shape, giving the appearance of a quern stone, however, the lower surface is rough, appearing to have been fractured from what may have originally been an almost spherical shape and therefore it is unlikely to have been a quern. The piece has been bored through in a cross shape…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodmansey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6FB9F5
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman tessera. Almost certainly from a bath. It still has bedding opus signinum attached and there is a remnant finish on the face that would have been exposed. Dating to between c43 AD and c410 AD. Length 26mm, width 17mm, depth 16mm, weight 14.1g.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: LANCUM-13D1D8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly opaque, pale grey grading to white, worked quartz or quartzite. It has probably been made by working a pebble removed or eroded out of the native millstone grit. The shape of the tool has been formed with 5 major flakes and a number of smaller ones. Two of the edges have been retouched by microflaking. The edges remains sharp. It was possibly mounted at the end of a stick, bone or similar. The photograph has been taken so that the two retouched edges are pointing up. The unusual choice of knapping material, given the local abundance of good quality chert, may have accorded this…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ratten Clough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3B23F5
Object type: FLAGSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of shaped hard grey micaceous siltstone, probably a third of a roofing flag. Probably Roman (c150 AD to c410 AD) as this type of stone was used extensively for reroofing older buildings in nearby Viroconium. It measures 135 in length, 89mm in width and 12mm in thickness.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
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Record ID: LANCUM-2EC598
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a piece of petrified wood, but more probably petrified conifer bark. One face shows signs of wear rather than weathering and it is possible that the object may have been used architecturally or culturally during the Roman occupation. Petrified conifer bark does rather suggest other fossilised conifer products, for instance amber. On the other hand its presence near a Roman settlement might well be a complete coincidence. Measures 37mm in length, 20mm in width, 18mm in thickness and weighs 20.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton', grid reference and parish protected.