Record ID: LEIC-6489A7
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Neolithic laurel leaf flint, 58mm long, 40mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 22.5grams. The object is oval in form and has an angled lower edge. It has a rounded upper surface which has a nick out of it just to one side of centre. It has been finely worked all over its surface. in the centre of one side some cortex is still visible.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-69E657
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age flint scraper, 26mm long, 25mm wide and 8mm thick. The flint has a deep brown patina and weighs 6grams. Its upper surface is primary cortex and it is steeply worked around all of its edges, with fine re-touch on one side. It has a clear striking platform on its reverse.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-34D501
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic flint re touched blade, 43mm long, 15mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a dark brown patina and weighs 3.84grams. the blade has an area of re touch along its upper edge opposite the area of cortex.
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-B4D542
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic? flint scraper, 69mm long, 47mm wide and 18mm thick. The object is in good condition with a greyish patina and weighs 46.17 grams. The scraper is 'leaf shaped' with a wide rounded lower edge containing a bulb of percussion and a smaller rounded worked end. It is finely worked just on the rounded tip, with deep removals. the object is heavily recorticated however, which indicates an early date.
Created on: Monday 16th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-9B3548
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze age flint scraper, 27mm long, 24mm wide and 11mm thick. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 8.07grams. The tool has a rounded egde which is steeply re-worked and has a patch of cortex. The underside has a clear bulb of percussion and a rippled surface.
Created on: Friday 27th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-6D81C4
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic or Neolithic? flint blade, 38mm long, 16mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is made of an orange brown flint and weighs 5.23grams. It has a slightly curved form and its upper surface has several linear removals. It has retouch on both its long edges, one of which appears stepped?
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-6DA182
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic or Neolithic? flint blade or blade like flake, 27mm long, 10mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is made form greyish flint and weighs 1.34 grams. The object appears to have pressure flaking along one edge, but it may just be a flake or an unfinished blade?
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-48DD27
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic flint hand axe, 61mm long, 48mm wide and 18mm thick. The axe is in good condition and made from brown flint, with some re-cortication, and weighs 51.26 grams. The axe is bi-facially worked and has a plano-convex cross section. It has a scraper edge, a damaged cutting edge and a curved chopping edge. Dr Kevin Leahy writes: this object appears to be a Middle Palaeolithic 'bout coupe'' handaxe and is therefore of some interest.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 28th May 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-70E554
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, 28mm long, 18mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 1.77grams. The arrowhead is intact and is re-corticating in places. It is bi-facially worked with one surface having more of a curve to it.
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-741527
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic? flint re-touched blade or bladelet, 38mm long, 12mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a whitish patina and weighs 2.54 grams. The blade has several ridges on its dorsal side and has a faint bulb of percussion on its ventral side. The object has been slightly re-touched along one edge.
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-841788
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint blade, 50mm long, 19mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 5.35grams. The blade has a triangular section and is bifacially worked, with one edge providing along smotth blade surface. It has a notch out of one edge which may or may not be deliberate?
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-FE8568
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic flint blade, 52mm long, 21mm wide and 6mm thick. the blade is in good condition with a grey patina and weighs 7.22grams. The blade is cleanly struck and has an unusual diagonal edge.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-226682
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic? flint blade, 28mm long, 11mm wide and 4 mm thick and weighs 0.91grams. The blade has fine re-touch down one edge.
Created on: Friday 12th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 25th October 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-865CE7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Neolithic or Bronze age flint thumbnail scraper, 23mm long, 21mm wide and 9mm thick. The object is in good condition with an orange patina and weighs 3.30 grams. The flint has a well struck bulb of percussion and has a neat line of re-touch around its curved edge.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-7B3EC7
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze age thumbnail scraper, 34mm long, 21mm wide and 10mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 7.10grams. The object has been damaged by heat which has led to the loss of some surface and has created areas of crazing. The remaining surface has clear removals and a roughly re-touched edge.
Created on: Friday 27th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th August 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-8D4775
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Neolithic/early Bronze age side and end scraper, 55mm long, 40mm wide and 11mm thick. The flint is in good condition with a dark brown patina. The ventral surface has a prominant bulb of percussion with a small platform. The distal end has been damaged but appears to have steep removals on the dorsal surface. running from the platform are two sections of re-touch, the longer one also has fine secondary re-touch. There is a small patch of cortex on the dorsal surface.
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-8DA520
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Mesolithic bladelet, 33mm long, 11mm wide and 3mm thick. The flint is in good condition with a dark brown patina. The flake has a small patch of re-cortication near the bulb. It has a clean sub-rectangular form and a clear median ridge.
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 1st September 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-723491
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Published
Prehistoric flint flake, 24mm long, 16mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in good condition with a cream patina and weighs 1.54grams. It is triangular in form and section and has no sign of working.
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-7E0B08
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint hand axe, 95mm long, 47mm wide and 26mm thick. The flint is in fair condition with a beige/white patina and weighs 138grams. The axe has unusual parallel sides and appears to be damaged and unfinished.
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-644DC3
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint knife fragment, 40mm long, 27mm wide and 7mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 9.80grams. The object is sub triangular in form and sub-rectangular in section and a lower edge formed by a clean break. The object has been worked on both edges, on one side it has been worked bi-facially with shallow removals on a straight edge and on the other edge has shallow removals on one side which run up to the rounded tip.
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.