Record ID: HAMP-12700F
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A perhaps Lower Palaeolithic (500, 000 - 150,000 BC) stone probable core tool, perhaps an axehead roughout or possibly a flake. It is made perhaps of Devon limestone with possible calcite bands running through (Mike Trevarthen pers. comm. Dec. 2019). The material is dark grey in colour and 'soft' to the touch. The object is ovate in shape and plano-convex in cross-section with several transverse ridges to the flatter (ventral if struck) face. The bulb of percussion isn't obvious and if struck, it could be at either end, both of which are slightly raised and one of which is additionall…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-E4CAF7
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped, ground and polished axehead of Neolithic date, c. 4000 - 2100 BC, made from an igneous greenstone. There is significant damage to one face, along an edge and reaching to the butt end; some damage extends from this to the opposite face. The implement is an isosceles triangle in shape with (one surviving complete) concave long edges and a shallowly-convex cutting edge. The butt end is incomplete but appears to originally have been a rounded point in shape. The axehead has an oval cross-section, the sides of the axehead flattened/ faceted at either end (on the com…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 31st May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-85A46B
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probable whetstone or hone of uncertain dating (from the Roman period onwards, c.AD 43 to 1800). It is cylindrical in shape with (broken) projections on two adjacent 'faces'; approximately one third of the cylinder shape is also missing. It measures 33.0mm in length, 34.6mm in diameter, 39.5mm in width, 34.5mm in thickness and weighs 48.86g. The stone is a fine grained sandstone with micaceous inclusions and a metallic black sheen to the outside edge.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C08387
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of sandstone rotary quern, dating to the Iron Age - Roman period (c.400 BC - AD 410). The fragment is from the top half of the quern and is triangular in both shape and cross-section. The underside is a little concave with an area in one corner that is worn smooth. At the edge, the object measures 65.2mm in thickiness/ height; this narrows to 22.9mm at the opposite end. The fragment measures 125.7mm in length and 113.0mm in width. It weighs 860g (to the nearest 2g).
Created on: Monday 27th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton and Shawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-E2B784
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete fine-grained micaceous stone whetstone or hone. It is sub-rectangular in shape with (worn) breaks at both short ends, revealing a D-shaped cross-section. It narrows from 20.1x14.8mm at one break to 14.6x11.6mm at the other, over a length of 76.3mm. The stone is grey to the flat underside but otherwise brown in colour with lines of silvery inclusions running through it. These appear as dark grey longitudinal striations on the brown surface. The stone is soapy to the touch. The object weighs 41.20g. Whetstones or hones of this type were often perforated in order to susp…
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A61754
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete knapped, ground and polished stone axehead of Neolithic date, c. 4000 - 2100 BC. There is significant recent-ish damage to the butt end, with lighter damage (also recent-ish) to the cutting edge. It is triangular in shape with an asymmetrical, shallowly-curved cutting edge and a rounded butt-end. The axehead has a pointed-oval cross-section, measuring 28.2x19.6mm at the damaged butt-end (just before the damage, it measures 43.3x36.4mm). It widens to the cutting edge (78.9mm) and thins significantly over the last quarter of length to c.2mm thick at the very edge. The sid…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-35FFA8
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and undatable whetstone, square in cross-section at one end (c.44x45mm with one damaged corner), sloping on one face and narrowing on those to either side to become rectangular in cross-section and extending c.35mm to the break (43x24mm). The fabric is grey in colour and sandy, with numerous micaceous inclusions and orange-brown fissures to the outside surface (probably iron staining). It weighs 272g (to the nearest 2g) and measures 92.7mm in length. Whetstones are known to have been used from the Bronze Age onwards and continued to be used for scythes and other tools…
Created on: Friday 28th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2017
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Record ID: HAMP-6748C7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete possible whetstone or hone of uncertain dating (from the Roman period onwards, c.AD 43 to 1800). It is rectangular in shape and lentoid in cross-section, with the edges of the object being blunted to give straight sides, increasing in height from the intact short edge to max.11mm tall. One end is broken diagonally while the other (intact edge) is a little damaged. The intact edge is slightly curving and has damage on both faces from wear. Iron staining is visible on both faces. It measures 67.57mm in length, 48.09mm in max.width and 17.55mm in max.thickness, weighing 5…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-672531
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of possible whetstone or hone of uncertain dating (from the Roman period onwards, c.AD 43 to 1800). It is rectangular in shape and square in cross-section, being broken at both ends (narrowing from 29.29x28.70 to 27.21x27.81). It measures 65.09mm in length and weighs 86g. The stone is porous with micaceous inclusions, probably a coarse-grained sandstone and of the same material as HAMP-6748C7, which was found with it. The object itself is barely worn. Helen Rees, Winchester Museums, comments the stone type would be unusual for a whetsonte or hone (pers.comm. October 2014).
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-661272
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone or hone of probable Scandinavian (Norwegian) origin and made of schist. The whetstone is sub-rectangular in plan and cross-section, with one finished edge and face, both slightly concave in profile, the other edges being smooth but bumpy and unfinished. Both short edges appear broken. Towards one end a 'corner' is cut off. This end has a piercing, central between the cut-off corner and the finished edge, in a wide U-shaped groove. It is countersunk from both faces, measuring c.5.8mm diameter on the outside and c.4mm at the centre. Presumably this was for suspe…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-6565FE
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of glauconitic or greensand quern, triangular in cross-section with breaks along all edges except that of the curved outer edge. One face is concave while the other, though flatter, has a rougher surface finish and several grooves perhaps from blade-sharpening. The curved outside edge also features a similar mark. Measures 185x133x(max)52mm (narrowing to min.21mm thick) and weighs 1316g. The stone probably originates in Midhurst, West Sussex, and the quern is of Iron Age - Roman date (c.600 BC to AD 410).
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-008C86
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic (3500-2100 BC) probable granite axehead, probably sourced from Cornwall or Wales. The cutting edge is badly damaged and mostly missing. In shape the axehead is triangular, measuring 15.99x11.14mm at the butt end and widening to 66.18x32.92mm just before the cutting edge, which curves a little inwards. The axehead is max.38.57mm thick at the centre. The stone is grey/ green/blue in colour with medium-sized whiteish inclusions. There is iron staining on both faces of the axehead. Measures 138.99mm in length (probably almost its original length) and weighs 494g …
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Mary Bourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-0E9AA1
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably complete, but with worn edges, sub-hexagonal stone roof tile found in association with Roman material. The edges are longer than the ends, both of which are V shaped. There is a perforation for a nail (5.75mm diameter) towards one edge of the V at one end. Measures c.360mm in length, max.c.220mm in width and c.28mm thick. It weighs in excess of 1kg (maximum allowance of scales available). Roof tiles such as these are common on Roman sites, but continue in use into the 19th century.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D801D3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible fragment of Neolithic polished axehead, the fabric of which is possibly a greenstone with micaceous or quartz inclusions. It measures 55.69x57.40x23.84mm and weighs 72.4g. The object is broken on all edges with one polished face, showing a fault line and a line of iron staining/ residue. The curvature of the object seems possibly a little too round for an axehead, and Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen comments (from images only) that in this case it could possibly be part of a broken macehead. Dr Kevin Leahy also suspects that this is not a axehead as its section lacks sym…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Malmesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D754E4
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Neolithic (3500-2100 BC) fine-grain probable greenstone Polished Axehead with damage at the butt end, measuring 118.12mm in length, 53.18mm max.width (cutting end), 30.68mm min.width (damaged butt end), 31.95 max.thickness (centre) and weighing 263.06g. The axehead is rather rectangular in shape with gently flaring sides towards the cutting edge, which has a very shallow curve. The sides of the axe have been polished flat, max.7mm high at the middle of the axe and narrowing to either end on one side while having a more-or-less constant 7mm height on the other. The …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Luckington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F9AC88
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval/ Medieval (500-1500) Spindle whorl of Coppergate type A1 (Walton Rogers, 2007), with one flat and one domed face. It measures 34.95mm in diameter, stands 18.09mm tall and weighs 30.4g. The circular central perforation measures 8.71mm diameter at the domed face and 10.07mm diameter on the flat face. The material is probably stone, but also looks very like earthenware. It has hairline cracks (possibly decorative?) on the domed face, consisting of a concentric ring and five roughly-equidistant radiating lines on the sides.
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
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Record ID: WILT-9990B7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of undatable (200 BC-1800 AD) but probably Roman to medieval, hone or whetstone, measuring 42.21x41.00x20.59mm and weighing 48.45g. The stone has micaceous inclusions and is greyish in colour. The whetstone or hone is formed from a very fine grained sedimentary, mica rich sandstone or siltstone. It is rectangular in cross section and has a deep groove on both of the larger faces.
Created on: Friday 21st January 2011
Last updated: Friday 21st January 2011
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Record ID: WILT-728576
Object type: SMOOTHING EQUIPMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic smoothing stone (probably), measuring 73.99x54.70x43.04mm and weighing in excess of 300g (scale limit). The object is rectangular in shape with rounded corners, and smooth with a dark orange/ brown patina on both faces. The two shorter edges are somewhat rougher, whicle the longer edges are smoother but without the browny orange patina. The stone is light grey in colour.
Created on: Thursday 14th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingbourne Ducis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-7253F5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of nine stone chips, found with WILT-71C204. They collectively weigh 83.53g.
Created on: Thursday 14th October 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingbourne Ducis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-71C204
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Neolithic (3500-2100 BC) greenstone axehead, measuring 87.82x65.78x32.81mm and weighing 295.46g. There is some (worn) damage at the butt end and on one face (the flatter face). The surface is now rough and pitted due to weathering, but would have originally been polished smooth. The axehead is sub-triangular in shape and lenticular in cross section. It is widest and flattest at the cutting edge (65.78x3.10mm) and narrowest at the butt end (49.10mm). It is thickest just below the butt end (32.81mm). The sides of the axehead are flattened. The cutting edge is shar…
Created on: Thursday 14th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingbourne Ducis', grid reference and parish protected.