Record ID: CAM-ECADA8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably an axehead, or possibly an adze, of Mesolithic date. This prehistoric tool has been knapped (struck) out of flint. Most of the artefact survives though there is some damage particularly at the cutting edge which removed some of the diagnostic area that might have helped determine more conclusively between axehead and adze. In its current condition the object weighs 167.98g. It has maximum dimensions of: length of 141.9mm, width 38.4mm and thickness 28.7mm. Mostly a medium to dark deep toffee colour with lesser patches of beige, pale brown/dark cream colour.
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: CAM-355A53
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Thinning flake from a larger bifacial tool, possibly from a hand axe. Mid - late Neolithic, c. 2.900 - 2.500 BC. Length: 45.50 mm, width: 33.16 mm, thickness: 8.16 mm, weight: 14.84 g. In mottled black flint with semi-polished surfaces. There is edge damage along both the distal end and left leading edge, probably a result of plough damage. There are flake scars over dorsal surface that are fairly large and irregular. Possibly re-used as a side scraper.
Created on: Monday 28th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: CAM-1162EC
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of middle Bronze Age date. The flint is pale grey in colour with a streak of mid to dark grey running vaguely diagonally across the artefact. Some impurities present. The artefact has a pointed-oval cross-section. The triangular shaped arrowhead is bifacially worked with covering parallel low angle retouch that has removed any trace of a bulb of percussion. The tip of the point and tips of the two two barbs are incomplete having been slightly damaged. The current weight is 2.2g, the slightly incomplete length is currently a maximum 28.2…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2022
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Record ID: CAM-A76485
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A secondary flint scraper tool. Bulb and point of percussion present. Dark flint, impurities present. Mostly diffuse ripple marks, suggestive of soft hammer production, but some more strongly defined might possibly be result of later damage - also more strongly defined ripple marks on retouch. Retouch present on dorsal edge: short, probably scaled - possibly sub-parallel, abrupt. Finder's research = 'side scraper, Bronze Age'.
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-A7B65D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A secondary flint pebble core for producing small blades c.30.2mm x c.6.3mm. Single striking platform with blades removed only part the way round. Three definite adjacent parallel blades removed, possibly another one or two incomplete or damaged blade removal scars to the side. Diffuse ripple marks, suggestive of soft hammer production. No bulb or point of percussion visibly present. Some larger, scaled, ripple marks at right angles to blade removal, indicating removal of flint to the side - whether intentionally or through accidental damage is uncertain. Core has a…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-A9AB69
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fifteen flint pieces, mostly if not all debitage. 1A - Larger tertiary flint flake. Bulb and point of percussion present. Impurity present. Diffuse ripple marks, suggestive of soft hammer production. No definite intentional retouch present, possible incidental edge abrasion. Hinge fracture present at distal end. Weight 12.65g, length 44.4mm, width 33.2mm, thickness 10.6mm. 2A - Larger secondary probable flint flake. Probable bulb, and point of percussion present. Very subtle diffuse ripple marks, suggestive of soft hammer production. Possibly some unintentional pressur…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-237614
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A primary flint core, Clark (1960) Type B1, having two parallel striking platforms, with flakes removed only part of the way around the core. One of the two striking platforms seems to have suffered later damage rather than having the appearance of an intentionally worked surface, direction of flaking indicates evidence of only c. 3 blades removed from that end. Some impurities present in the flint and this might explain some of the smaller blade shaped removals from the smoother platform used last in the core's function for providing blades. Some of the smallest removals…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-2445F3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint blades. A secondary flint blade, probably utilised as a scraper. Bulb of percussion present on ventral face with diffuse ripple marks indicating soft hammer production. Subtle hinge fracture at distal end. Ventral face has two main facets where blades were previously removed but indication that at least a further two were removed from the first quarter at the proximal end above these which ended in one subtle and one possible hinge fracture. Probable retouch along just over half of the edge opposite that which retains some cortex. Short, probably sub-parallel, semi…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-24E62C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A secondary flint flake utilised as a scraper. Incomplete, due to later damage or reworking of the , bulb of percussion present. Transverse break (possibly hinge fracture) across distal end. Initial flake has very diffuse ripple marks on the ventral and dorsal faces indicating soft hammer production. Subsequent removal of flint on both faces all has more defined ripple marks. The recorder is uncertain whether these are defined enough to indicate hard hammer use or just that the soft hammer has had more impact than that initially used to produce the flake. Working on the vent…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-27B821
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint flake or probably a broken blade with transverse break at 90 degrees between ventral and dorsal faces. Probably utilised. Bulb of percussion present. Fissures more noticeable on dorsal face. Diffuse to more noticeable ripple marks probably indicating just soft hammer production (possibly some hard hammer use too - recorder uncertain). Probable retouch along one edge, extent of retouch short, type of retouch scaled, angle of retouch abrupt veering towards low-angle.
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-2806F8
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint core, Clark (1960) probably a Type C or E, having at least three striking platforms (deduced from the direction of the ripple marks), with flakes removed all of the way around the core from multiple directions. The removal of blades seems to be most likely, at least for that last utilage of this core. Diffuse ripple marks indicative of soft hammer production. While the direction of ripple marks indicates the direction of strike, as the core has been worked from a number of directions no flat platform remains. Scars from the removal of three blade proportione…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-2890D3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twenty pieces of flint, and possibly some chert, debitage. 1A - A re-patinated flint river pebble tertiary blade, the texture of which is less glass-like veering to a texture reminiscent of chert. Bulb of percussion present. Diffuse ripple marks almost not visible indicative of soft hammer production. Probable retouch along proximal end of one edge on dorsal face. Extent short, probably parallel, c.abrupt to semi-abrupt, c. width of each retouch flake c.1.1mm. Probable retouch, creating a shallow notch of 8.7mm on the blade's length axis, on the lower middle edge on the ventral fa…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-3945D0
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five flint pieces of debitage. 1A - A secondary flint flake. Point and bulb of percussion present. Bulb is low but ripple marks on ventral face partially pronounced with more diffuse at middle, probably soft hammer production. Diffuse ripple marks on all facets of dorsal face. Fissures present on dorsal face on two of the facets. Short scaled retouch semi-abrupt at proximal end of straighter edge changing to abrupt at  distal end of edge where it becomes more concave. Weight 8.00g, length 41.7mm, width 30.2mm, thickness 7.5mm. 2A - A secondary flint flake, but probably the …
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-259847
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint pebble flake within which is a large impurity at the proximal end and seen in both ventral and dorsal faces. This is present in the bulb of percussion where it has a chert like texture. Consideration has been given to the suggestion that this might be a reworked adze. If not, and it seems more probable that, this is a core rejuvenation flake tool indicating two attempts to remove the larger impurity. Almost all surfaces over this piece of flint are re-patinated with the exception of a very small percentage of surface area where this has been removed by later …
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-A2FC37
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A tertiary flint blade, struck with a soft hammer, recorticated overall. Blades of the form were made during the Late Upper Palaeolithic, Early Mesolithic and Early Neolithic making dating difficult. Weight is 0.97g, length is 29.4mm, width is 10.1mm and thickness is 3.2mm.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
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Record ID: CAM-A2809B
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A retouched secondary flint flake, struck with a hard hammer giving a pronounced bulb of percussion and ripple marks. Retouch, invasive, scaled, low angle, along just more than half of the dorsal face's edge. Small area of cortex on one edge. Unpatinated. Early Bronze Age, 2,400- 1000BC. Weight is 10.65g, length is 55.6mm, width is 30.1mm, thickness is 8.0mm.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Friday 30th July 2021
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Record ID: CAM-B69B3C
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age bifacially worked flint barbed and tanged arrowhead. The arrowhead weighs 3.69g, is triangular in shape with a pointed oval cross-section. The extreme tip of the arrowhead has broken off, the diagonal almost transverse break having a width of 5.2mm and thickness of 2.4mm. The artefact has an incomplete maximum length of 34.3mm. The straight edges flare out to a maximum width of 27.0mm. The centre of the arrowhead has the maximum thickness of 5.4mm. The barbs stop at c.26.6mm below the tip-break. The barbs have width of 6.3mm & 7.0mm. The notches extend up from these ap…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2019
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Record ID: CAM-3DD764
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake of the Bronze Age, with traces of fine retouch. The flake has a brown recorticated surface and there is an area of cortex surviving. Length 23mm, width 29.6mm, thickness 6.6mm, weight 3.2g.
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2019
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Record ID: CAM-696DB2
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake of probable Mesolithic date. The flint is pale grey/brown in colour. Part of the single core platform is visible at the proximal end and no retouch has occurred. Length 20.2mm, width 14.5mm. thickness 2.25mm.
Created on: Friday 20th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2019
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Record ID: CAM-AA9A52
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible flint core of Mesolithic or Neolithic date. This is a double-platform core, the two platforms being at 90 degrees to one another. The flint is dark grey and retains a small area of light brown cortex.
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
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