Record ID: NMGW-5B6156
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Core rejuvenation blade, most likely to be of Neolithic date (c. 4000-2500BC). Made of flint. Length = 79.0mm; width = 28.0mm; thickness – 15.0mm; weight = 25.3g. The blade is struck from a blade core with the intention to refresh the striking platform of the core to enable further blades to be removed from it. Blades from such a core could have been retouched and made into scrapers, knives, or other tools.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-D7745D
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric flint knife, possibly dating from the Neolithic period c. 4000 – 2351 BC. The knife is incomplete, with a surviving length of 46.67mm, a maximum surviving width of 18.16, a maximum thickness of 4.86 mm. It has been worked with scalar retouch along the left dorsal margin, it has a stepped fracture resulting in the loss of most of the right margin. There is retouch on the remaining left ventral margin towards the knife tip. The flint is brown-grey in colour, unpatinated, and non-cortical.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-466775
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint implement, probably a knife/scraper but may also be a flake with miscellaneous retouch. The object has a white speckled patination and invasive retouch on the lateral side with post depositional damage. Max length 72.1mm, width 22.3mm, 8.5mm thick, 9.3mm max depth and weighs 14.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-DDA8DB
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake, likely debitage, of unknown date. No sign of retouch is visible on the edges. The flake is 21.8mm long, max width of 13.4mm, 4mm thick and weighs 1.01g.
Created on: Friday 26th March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 19th May 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3DA94B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint ‘Thumbnail’ scraper The scraper is complete (with a length of 23.1mm, a width of 22.8mm, a thickness of 9.2mm and a weight of 5.2g). The dorsal face has extensive invasive retouch and only the proximal edge area is not retouched. The retouch is characteristically steep, more pronounced at the distal end. There is a small patch of surviving cortex along the proximal edge. The flint is largely unpatinated. Thumbnail scrapers are often associated with Beaker material culture.
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-C2CD99
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Later Neolithic flint arrowhead The arrowhead is incomplete (with a surviving length of 34.9mm, a basal width of 25.5mm, a maximum thickness of 4.2mm and a weight of 2.6g), missing a barb and appears to have been of oblique type The arrowhead is made on a partially patinated and non-cortical flint with the patination confined to the upper (tip) half. The arrowhead has been carefully and skilfully pressure-flaked on both faces but with more peripheral working on the ventral surface. The basal edge is retouched and gently concave.
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-AC8D19
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint bifacial tool of composite type and probably of Neolithic date The tool is incomplete, missing the proximal end (with a surviving length of 62.0mm, a maximum width of 35.5mm, a maximum thickness of 13.4mm and a weight of 31.1g). Although no obvious grinding striations are evident on the surface, two facets on the dorsal surface appear to have been polished, suggesting that the tool has been made from a broken Neolithic flint axe. It is also possible to suggest that the steep facet on the distal end is the blade edge or approaching the edge. There is steep retouch on the sid…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-AA6F65
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and Tanged arrowhead The arrowhead is incomplete, missing the tang (with a length of 21.7mm, a surviving width of 16.4mm, a thickness of 4.2mm and a weight of 1.2g). The arrowhead is bifacially worked, with extensive pressure flaking on the convex dorsal surface and with edge retouch (scaled and stepped) on the flat ventral surface. The dark-grey flint is non-cortical and largely unpatinated.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EDF0CB
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint blade core, probably of Mesolithic date The blade core (weight 30.2g) is a double-platform core made on a beach-pebble, with platforms at each end. The blades have all been removed from one side, with the other side being cortical. There is evidence of core preparation grinding on both platforms. The flint has patinated pale-grey to white.
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-ECFB7C
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint Hollow-Based arrowhead The arrowhead incomplete, missing the tip (with a surviving length of 31.6mm and a weight of 3.0g). The arrowhead is made on a flake with the bifacial retouch confined to one side and the concave base (where the arrowhead has a width of 21.3mm). The arrowhead has a maximum thickness (of 4.9mm) midway along the retouched edge. The flint is non-cortical has differential patination. The missing tip may indicate that the arrowhead has impacted while being used.
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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