Record ID: SOM-ADAD28
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Broken polished silica stone, probably carnelian, bead, of uncertain date, possibly Roman. The bead is a flattened hexagonal in cross section and sub-rectangular in plan, tapering slightly to one end which may be complete, although irregular. The other end is clearly broken. There is a circular cross section hole running through the bead, more close to one side than the other, particularly at the broken end. At the broken end it is clear the stone was orange throughout, although banded with deeper redder and paler colours. The surface, and part of the probably complete end, has develo…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdrip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4A3D7A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One fragment of worn, sub-angular translucent crystalline calcite with flat cleavage planes visible on three axis and worn, smoothed, sides. Probably naturally formed: no evidence seen for artificial shaping. 29.1mm by 28.3mm by 20.2mm and 24.39g in weight. Although natural and potentially local as calcite does form in limestone the piece was picted out by the finder as unusual in the field. It was found in an area that has produced worked flint of Mesolithic to Bronze Age dte with a focus in the Neolithic and might be associated with the flint as a deliberately selected and…
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-980549
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic or Neolithic (c.8000-2400 cal BC) core fragment. The core fragment is made of a tertiary fragment of medium grey flint which has lighter grey fleck and patch inclusions and has a semi-glossy patina. One side of the core is a lighter mottled grey colour and cracked probably from having been burnt. The fragment is conical in shape with a sub-oval base from which 5 sides rise up to form a cone. The fragment has been the bottom of a larger core which has subsequently been struck off the core transversely to give the second fragment a flat base from which to knap further flak…
Created on: Friday 18th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: SOM-87BC6B
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic chert microlith in the form of a blade, dating to the period c.8000-4000BC. The microlith has been struck off a tertiary flake as no cortex remains. The chert is a translucent mid-orange in colour .The artefact is sub-rectangular in shape with a sub-rectangular cross section. The dorsal face has three negative flake scars from previous removals. Both of the side edges have short, parallel, sub-angular retouch along their length It is 20.8mm in length, 5.1mm wide, 2.4mm thick and weighs 0.25 grams
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: SOM-E9E04C
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone spindle whorl of unknown date. The spindle whorl is circular in plan and in profile bi-conical with a flattened top and bottom. It has a distinct ridge around the centre. Both faces of the spindle whorl are flat and undecorated. A straight sided, sub-circular perforation 8.9mm in diameter runs through it for attachment to a wooden spindle. The spindle whorl is 23.2mm in diameter and 13.0mm high; it weighs 27.77g. The stone is mid greyish brown in colour with part of the outer surface whiter and more powdery. It is relatively heavy for its size. A geologist would need to …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 27th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-67962B
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A limestone tessera, probably of Roman date. The tessera is a slightly brownish white and has been polished smooth. its reverse is less smooth and still retains some of the mortar used to cement this block. This mortar is a a greyish brown colour. The tessera measures 21.5mm by 20.3mm by 9.9mm and weighs 10.27 grams.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2019
Last updated: Friday 16th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F3A69A
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A limestone tessera, probably of Roman date as found together with other material from this period. The tessera measures 13.4mm by 10.7mm by 10.9mm and weighs 2.96
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F7CEDF
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
On piece of chert debitage of Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date (c. 4000 - 1600 BC). The piece is a tertiary piece of chert that is an orange brown colour with frequent white mottling. The pieced has at least three earlier flake removals on its dorsal surface while the reverse has none. A shallow bulb of percussion is visible as are some shallow conchoidal ripples which terminates in a hinge near the distal end. The flake is 71.1mm long, 47.9mm wide, 15.9mm thick and weighs The assemblage weighs 66.02 grams A single flake of debitage is hard to date in isolation. However, th…
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bratton Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-402E42
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic (c.4000-2400 BC) polished stone axehead. The object is an isosceles triangle in plan, the short edge being the blade and the opposite butt edge being particularly squashed and rounded in plan such that the axe is almost trapezoidal. The blade edge is slightly convex curved and has at least 5 chips on its edge some or all of which may be from its use as an axe. The axe is a pointed oval in cross section at the blade. The cross section thickens steadily and from the blade to a point approximately one quarter down the axe's length where it has a maximum thi…
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willand CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5F0B17
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert scraper of possible Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date, c. 3000-1000 BC. The scraper is worked from a secondary flake of mottled brown-grey chert with paler inclusions. The flake is sub-oval in plan, and sub-trapezoidal in cross section. A striking platform with a diffuse bulb of percussion and a fragment of a bulbar scar survives at the proximal end. Two negative removal scars from the same direction are present on the proximal face. The flake has medium length sub-parallel, semi-abrupt re-touch along the distal end and both left and right mesal edges. The scraper is …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8AC5F7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A whetstone or hone broken at one end. The surviving portion of the whetstone is sub-rectangular in plan. One long edge of this is straight from which the complete end runs tangentially. The remaining long edge is slightly convex. The end has rounded corners. In section the object has rounded edges. The object thickens slightly towards the complete end. The stone is a fine grained, slightly micaceous, and possibly metamorphic rock, with diagonal veins of quartz running through and across the length of the object. It is predominantly dark grey to brown grey in colour. The hone is…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
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Record ID: SOM-F873CA
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman hand-turned rotary quern. About one eighth of the upper stone survives, including part of the outer edge: the inner point of the wedge may be at the central hole but is too incomplete and abraded to be certain. Assuming this is the central hole, and given the curve of the outer edge, the complete diameter is estimated to be at least c. 500mm but this is tentative given the small section of outer edge surviving and the wear on the broken corners. Convex upper face with roughly dressed surface and worn rounded corners, vertical or slightly convex outer side , flat lo…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-949982
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of quern-stone of probably Roman date. The fragment is sub triangular in shape and it is a segment of a circular millstone, from the central perforation to the outer edge. The upper face is rough and slightly convex. Traces of a central circular hole on the millstone remains on one side of the fragment. This hole measures 14.7 mm in deep before sinking further for 29 mm to the central perforation of millstone.The lower face is flat and has had minimal working. The whole piece measures 136.1 mm in length, 159.7 mm in width, in thickness 44.5 mm at the centre and 57.2 mm a…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DA2851
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One end of a rectangular sectioned whetstone and a non-joining end fragment which may or may not be from the same stone. The larger piece narrows and thins to a sharp point at the complete end. The smaller piece is triangular in section, probably due to the amount of wear on one face and worn to a flat edge with a rounded corner at the complete end. Fine grained non-micaceous rock. The larger fragment is 107.2 mm long, 38.9mm wide and 27.4mm thick it weighs 128.9 grams. The smaller is 42.6mm long, 31.8mm wide, 11.9mm thick and weighs 19.2g. While not diagnositic on their own these …
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2017
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Record ID: SOM-D9EF94
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One end of a rectangular and rectangular secetioned whet stone with a drilled circular hole through the remaining complete end. Fine grained non-micaceous rock formed and broken along distinct layers with flat sides, slightly rounded corners and edges and a slightly concave face, probably from use. The fragment is 49.0mm long, 33.7mm wide and 9.8mm thick it weighs 32 grams. While not diagnositic on its own it was found in a group of Roman material and is likely to be of that date although there is some late 18th century material also on the field.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2017
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Record ID: SOM-CC2754
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A water worn, sub oval pebble, probably a beach pebble of a hard, fine grained rock. One side is completely worn flat, probably from use as a smoother, polisher or possibly whetstone. It is 54.6mm long, 43.6mm wide, 30.4mm thick and weighs 106 grams. The rock is a Devonian sandstone deliberately brought in to the area, possibly form the Quantocks (D. Parsons pers com). It is not closely datable as an object and may be Prehistoric to Post Medieval in date
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-54B90D
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete roof tile of probable Roman date. The Upper Triassic white lias tile has been perforated by a hole for a roof nail. It has broken across the perforation with half the hole visible on one edge. All the other edges are also old breaks with the possible exception of the right edge. The dimensions are thus minimums. Dimensions: 178mm by 110mm by 21mm Weight: 405g
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F369C6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone spindle whorl of unknown date. The spindle whorl is 32.1mm in diameter, circular in plan. In profile it is bi-conical with a flattened top and bottom and distinct ridge around the centre. 18.6mm high. Both faces of the spindle whorl are flat and undecorated. A straight sided, circular perforation 5.9mm in diameter runs through, slightly off centre, for attachment to a wooden spindle. It weighs 22.77 grams. The stone is dark grey in colour with a distinct laminar structure, the softer layers of which have preferrentialy weathered. It has been identified by Dennis Parsons as …
Created on: Monday 31st July 2017
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2017
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Record ID: SOM-248F41
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a worked stone rotary quern of unclear form. The fragment is part of the upper stone, probably from a pot quern. The upper face and inner side are irregular with old breaks. It is not clear that any of the central hole or handle hole oe lug survives although some smoother areas at the centre of the break could be part of a hole. The base is broadly flat with an irregular surface for grinding. This surface has probably become more irregular with later damage. The lower part of the side is vertical where it would have sat into the raised lip of the lower stone and al…
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wincanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-23470E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a worked stone of uncertain date and function, possibly a whetstone as it appears too thin for a quern. The stone is a well cemented and sorted medium to fine grain sandstone. The fragment is roughly triangular with breaks on all sides and flat top and bottom faces. Across one face is a deep, straight, semi-circular sectioned groove running from one side to the other. On the other face is a shallow, curved, similarly sectioned groove which deepens from one edge to the other and may indicate the piece was used with a rotation action. The fragment is 78.7mm long, and…
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wincanton', grid reference and parish protected.