Record ID: LEIC-6B7EE2
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic polished stone axehead, dating to c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The axehead is sub-trapezoidal with a rounded narrow butt end and a wider rounded blade end and generally straight sides. It is pointed oval in section. The blade edge is sharply angled and feels sharp along part of its length.  The opposed, butt edge is rounded.   The sides are sharply angled but are not sharp.  . The axehead is made from a very dark almost black stone and has slight pitting throughout. Length: 154.3 mm Width: 83.1 mm Thickness: 41.8 mm Weight: 848 g DUR-C2E93…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: KENT-ECCC79
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete perforated quartzite pebble hammer/mace head of Mesolithic to early Bronze Age date (c. 9000-1800 BC). Description: The object is made from a smooth waterworn quartzite pebble which, when complete, would have been oval in shape. Approximately 50% remains, with a break across the centre of the perforation, which is hourglass in section, indicating that it was worked from both sides. There is some evidence of pecking on the rounded edge of the object, indicating that it has probably been used as a pebble hammer. On the external surfaces, the quartzite is orange-brown in co…
Created on: Friday 30th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2022
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Record ID: LIN-080CD8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a possible vessel or tripod leg. The leg is cylindrical, solid, and has a flat base. The leg has a narrow collar around the base. The upper end is damaged but appears to have been angled to attach to a concave metal vessel.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 29th December 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-9AC294
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic to early Bronze Age polished stone perforated object, dating to c. 2800 - 2100 BC. The object is sub-rectangular with slightly convex sides, it is pointed oval in section. Positioned slightly off-centre is a circular perforation which has an hourglass form. The butt of the object is slightly rounded towards the butt and shows some wear through use. The opposing edge slopes more sharply into the cutting edge, this is mostly worn through use. The surface on all sides is smooth and only slightly pitted. The stone is dark grey in colour.  Length: 123.2 mm Width: 77.2 …
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: CORN-89BBA4
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, undecorated, stone spindle whorl probably dating to the medieval period (c. AD 410-1500). The spindle whorl is circular in plan. The object has a central circular perforation which has been drilled from each side. The object is made of a light rough stone possibly a micaceous sandstone. The object has been split in two, diagonally along one circular face, creating a triangular cross-section when viewed from one edge. As a result of the split one circular face of the spindle whorl is much lighter in colour that the other as it has exposed the inner material, su…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-9BFF0E
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Langdale group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 Length: 53.5mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 15.7mm, Weight: 49.81gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-9BE0CA
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Langdale Group VI axe. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2500 BC Length: 59.6mm, Width: 45.2mm, Thickness: 12.8mm, Weight: 51.07gms
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NLM-CA16D6
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey metamorphic polished stone axe fragment. A chip identified by the finder as from a stone axe of darker metamorphic rock than the familiar Group VI axe-heads, from imported elsewhere in western Britain. Three long thin parallel flakes have been struck from the dorsal side by probably bipolar working [i.e. from both ends] leaving a concave ventral surface. This pattern of working would usually commend a later Mesolithic date, though the use of part of an axe may extend that date range into the early Neolithic. Another small fragment of similar stone has been reported from the v…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-614050
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished Neolithic axehead made from a grey-brown quartzite with a grey band across it. Only a fragment of the surface from one face remains, with a curved edge on one end. The original dimensions of the object are impossible to determine.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
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Record ID: NLM-118667
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lava quern fragment. A wedge-shaped fragment from a quern stone, rounded by abrasion. One flat face is smoother than the other – though not by much – marking the working side of the stone. The rounded form at the broader end of the fragment may suggest a biconical or hourglass feed hole set centrally to the pair of stones whence this fragment derives. Lava from Eifel in Western Germany was exploited to make quern stones from the Roman period, and these were also the subject of trade between Carolingian Europe and England in the early 9th century. Suggested date: Roman, 43-4…
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-116270
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three secondary hard hammer struck flakes of unpatinated glossy dark grey/brown flint of good quality. Broad, sub-circular flake, terminating in a slight hinge at the distal end, both lateral edges are finely and irregularly damaged. 37 x 38 x 11.5 mm. 16 g. Possible end scraper, steeply retouched at the distal end on an elongated blade-like flake, struck from a single platform core. Lateral edges are slightly damaged. Bulb missing, broken transversely. 45.5 x 25 x 8.5 mm. 10 g. Struck flake, Hinged termination to one side, one edge appears to be finely retouched/damaged. 36 x 28 …
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FDCE25
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three pieces of black flint, unpatinated. Tertiary end scraper of conventional form, hard hammer struck with steep retouch to the distal end, now slightly damaged, the retouch is less invasive to the lateral edges. 54 x 37.5 x 10 mm. 23 g. Side scraper on a semi-hard hammer struck secondary flake, one side of the dorsal face has off-white cortex extant with a section of fossilised Belemnite shell. The bulb is crushed, and one side of the distal end (opposing the cortex) is steeply retouched to form the main scraping edge. 57 x 35 x 10 mm. 22 g. Tertiary hard hammer struck flake wi…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-835E4B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone annular object, probably a domed spindle whorl of Walton Rogers type A1 dating c 600-1200.  The object is domed and almost bi-conical with one flat side and one domed. A circular aperture has been drilled through the centre measuring 5.07mm on the domed side and widening to 6.04mm on the flat side. The walls of the aperture are cylindrical and the edges of the aperture on the lower edges appear worn and rounded. The surface is buff/pale brown. Measurements: diameter: 14.55mm; thickness: 6.99mm and weight: 6.73g.  It is possible th…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-53BE3A
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished late Neolithic axehead, 112.7mm in length, made from a grey flint. The axehead has a lenticular cross section which expands in width from 30.6mm at the butt to 52.7mm at the front. The cutting edge is lost to heavy battering damage which looks to be the result of use and also has removal scars consistent with attempts at re-sharpening.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: SUR-008C94
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic (c.4000-2000 BC) polished axehead. The fragment comprises most of the cutting edge, which is curved and a portion of one side which has a slightly flattened and facetted edge. There appears to be no evidence of use-related wear or damage. The axehead is made from a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff or greenstone, with fine orange-brown streaks / banding. The lithological source is probably from the vicinity of Langdale, Cumbria. This material is exotic for the location of the find (south Oxfordshire), suggesting that the axehead would have…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: DUR-C2E938
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete  stone axehead, probably dolerite, of the polished type, dating from the Neolithic period (c.4000 - 2200 BC). This is a neolithic polished stone axehead made by grinding and polishing the stone to shape. Its dimensions are 115.65 mm long x 61.8 mm wide (or high in its use position) x 39.1mm thick and it weighs 422.8g. The butt is oval in section, 35.2 mm high and 27mm thick, and the surface is faceted on each side of a central vertical arris.  The transition from each butt facet to its adjacent side of the axehead is sharply defined. The sides of the axehead…
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2F3DB
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Impressively banded igneous stone “slipper” mace head, the stone is fine-grained with grey/green layers between whiteish layers, the perforations were never completed; pecked and/or bored from both faces but now left as opposing “cups” to each face c. 23 mm dia. and each 11 mm deep, there was only c. 7 mm of unperforated stone  before the two would meet up. The surface has a small amount of fine, granular loss but essentially it is in good condition. Possibly locally made from a glacial erratic water worn pebble chosen for the aesthetics of the stone…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F27DB7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated, thin butted flaked axe: - of mottled dark grey and light grey flint with a slight orange patination to the surfaces, this orange is more pronounced to the sinuous coarse inclusion to the flatter of the two faces. All flake scars are soft hammer struck with feathered flake terminations, all confidently struck. The cutting edge is very slightly rounded, one side of which is recently damaged, another small loss to the mid-point to one edge above the missing cutting edge as well, and another loss to the opposing edge, just below the butt, these show the original colour of the …
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2572B
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large part-polished axe in excellent condition, of orange patinated flint with the coarse inclusions now a pale off-white colour, the very tip of the butt retains the original grey colour of the flint, one face has a couple of light iron scrapes from agricultural machinery. One lateral edge is lightly damaged recently, this interrupts the ground and minimally rounded edges of the axe, the cutting edge is almost a perfect semi-circle in plan and is ground and polished, not quite removing the flake scars from the surface, similar work to smooth off the high points to both faces has been…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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