Record ID: LANCUM-A32091
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age grey brown flint thumbnail scraper fabricated from a tertiary flake. The scraping edge has been formed with semi-invasive, sub-parallel, semi-abrubt removals along the curved edge. A small gouge or burin has also been fashioned on one of the 'corners' of the flake. Dates to between c2700 to c1600 BC. Length 30mm, width 22mm, thickness 3.5mm, weight 4.80g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Haslingden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B9981
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to Bronze Age chert scraper and two possible burins on a tertiary flake. Semi-abrupt sub-parallel retouch to the longest edge to form the scraping edge. At the ends of the working edges there are small angled removals that appear intentional. These result in what appear to be burins or gouges on the respective corners. There are removals to the ventral and dorsal faces that allow the tool to be held more comfortably. Suggested date range c4000 to c1000 AD. Length 29mm, width 20mm, weight 4.16g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Bolton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31F4B2
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Mesolithic to mid Bronze Age debitage, tertiary patinated white flint, heat effected post working, no retouch. Dates from c7000 to c1000 BC. The length is 15mm, width 11mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.48g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Sunday 18th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31F0E6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Mesolithic to early Neolithic tertiary grey flint debitage. Possible retouch to one mesal. Dates from c7000 to c3500 BC. The length is 16mm, width 10mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.43g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31EF00
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to mid Bronze Age tertiary pale grey flint debitage. Small areas of parallel short semi-acute retouch on mesals, possibly for use as side scrapers and/or cutting edges. Dates from c4000 to c1000 BC. The length is 19mm, width 12mm, thickness 4mm, and the weight is 0.68g
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31EC56
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to late Neolithic red brown flint secondary debitage or blade butt. There is very fine sub-parallel short acute retouch to both mesals. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 13mm, width 11mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 0.39g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31EAF4
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic to Neolithic tertiary grey chert blade. Parallel short acute retouch to the longer mesal, probably to form a cutting edge. Dates from c10,000 to c2350 BC. The length is 32mm, width 15mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 2.00g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E1DB
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to late Neolithic grey flint tertiary blade fragment with sub-parallel short acute retouch to both mesals forming edges that could be used for cutting or scraping. Second phase of retouch to the distal mesal to form a burin on the corner. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 17mm, width 12mm, thickness 3.5mm, and the weight is 0.77g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31DDB7
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Neolithic to early Bronze Age tertiary patinated white flint debitage. Probably a fragment from the proximal end of a discarded blade. There is occasional random short acute retouch to both mesal edges, but nothing that suggests the fragment was reused as a tool. Dates from c4000 to c1600 BC. The length is 15mm, width 11mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 0.81g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31DBA0
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic tertiary pale grey flint blade. The distal end has snapped off. Sub-parallel acute to semi-actue short retouch to both mesals. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 26mm, width 18mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 2.05g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31D9EC
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic patinated tertiary grey flint end scraper. The scraper is on the distal end and there are two stages of sub-parallel abrupt retouch, short on semi-invasive, and some damage from crushing. Dates from c4000 to c2350 BC. The length is 21mm, width 13mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.42g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-945099
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint barb and tang arrowhead, similar to a Ballyclare B, formed on a tertiary flake now patinated white. Multiple flaking scars cover both the ventral and dorsal sides. The fully invasive primary working has been retouched to all edges. It is triangular in plan with slightly projecting barbs on the base either side of a 5mm wide rectangular tang that projects 4mm beyond the bottom of the tangs. The barbs are more or less pointed and the tang only slightly rounded. Probably dates to between c2500 and c1500 BC. Length 25mm, width 17mm.
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2020
Last updated: Saturday 2nd January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Milnthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CB833E
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint 'horseshoe' scraper. The scraper is circular with one straight edge in plan, and fabricated on a white patinated tertiary flake. The ccraper has been formed on the rounded distal end while the proximal end is the straight edge. There are three principle phases of working. In the first it has been roughed out with a series of invasive removals to the dorsal. The second phase consisted of shaping the distal edge with a series of long scaled semi abrupt removals. The final phase consists or short, sub-parallel, abrupt retouch on the working edge. …
Created on: Monday 13th July 2020
Last updated: Saturday 17th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Settle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C72415
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to mid Neolithic side scraper on a secondary flake of dark grey chert. Short, parallel to sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch to both mesals. The distal end has been shaped with an invasive intial removal terminating in a hinged fracture. It has then had very short sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch. There has been a reduction to the dorsal ridge. Cortex retained at proximal end, probably to aid grip. Dates to between c4000 and c2700 BC. Length 24mm, width 15mm, thickness 7mm, mass 2.86g
Created on: Sunday 19th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Colne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B8B345
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to mid Neolithic side scraper on a tertiary flake of grey chert. On one mesal two notches have been removed from near the distal end then the whole ventral edge has received short, parallel to sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch The resultant edge probably served three purposes, as a serrated blade, a notched scraper, and as a side scraper if the proximal end was favoured. The other mesal is 7.5mm thick. On its dorsal edge it has short, abrupt, sub-parallel retouch to the whole edge. The ventral edge has a series of scaled semi-invasive removals overlaid with short, abrupt, sub-pa…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-D53DD8
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age axe head roughout made from a tertiary flake of a Lakeland tuff. The tuff is similar to, but coarser grained than Langdale tuff. The roughout is thick-butted, double convex in section, sub-rectangular in plan, has crudely sub-rounded ends, and expands in plan from both the butt and the blade end to reach its maximum width 68mm from the blade end. Dates to between c2700 and c1600 BC. The length is 177mm, width 83mm, thickness 52mm, and the weight 711.4g. The rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash and has a fine grained composition with…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2019
Last updated: Sunday 6th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick Ward', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DE0051
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint debitage retouched to a scraper. The flint is pale brown in colour. It is a tertiary piece of debitage that has had short, stepped, abrupt to semi-abrupt retouch to one corner. This has produced an artefact that could have been utilised as a crude but effective scraper. Probably dates to between c2700 and c1600 BC. The length is 24mm, width 16mm, and the thickness 10mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-C6CB8B
Object type: BURNT FLINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of heat affected stone and iron pan found near LANCUM-177CC5, possibly a Riley Type 5 late Neolithic scraper, and probably of a similar period. Both pieces have been heat effected and exhibit signs of thermal fracture. One of the stones has orange ochre within the iron pan & this has been rubbed into concavity, possibly for use as a pigment. The stones may have been heated to make use of the ochre, or as the result of some other activity such pot boiling or cooking. The burning probably dates from the late Neolithic, c2500 to c2100 BC. The smaller piece's length is 21m…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 12th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYCOLLER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8C5492
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lithic implement from a translucent pale brown tertiary flake. (While it was recorded as an arrowhead Dr Kevin Leahy is cautious about this interpretation). The majority of working is on the dorsal face, suggesting this arrowhead was for use and not a status symbol. The artefact has been constructed in a rather odd way. The point is actually at the proximal end, while the arrows butt is at the distal end. This has created a problem with how to deal with the comparitevely large bulb of percussion. The rather crude solution has been to snap part of it off, followed by a short abrupt …
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leighton and Eaton Constantine', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3C3AE7
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to mid Neolithic serrated implement made from a tertiary flake of pale milky grey translucent flint with small white inclusions. One side and the distal end have been worked into a fine saw. The serration was created by micro flaking (short, parallel, cross abrupt) from the dorsal and ventral sides. The side opposite the serrated edge has a single long, and three much smaller, deliberate removals for 12mm (similar to YORYM-697977). The area between this removal and the proximal has been blunted with invasive, scaled, low angle retouch 4mm inward from the edge. The tip has a high…
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.