Record ID: LANCUM-357837
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Debitage flake of white flint. The piece measures 28mm in length, 11mm in width and 3mm in thickness. The flake is undated.
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shap', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3581E1
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a bladelet on mid-brown chert. The distal end is missing to a lateral break. The fragment measures 15.5mm in length, 10mm in width and 2mm in thickness. The date is unknown.
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shap', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-35C337
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A well rounded flint piece. It is difficult to discern whether it is worked or natural. It is possible that the piece is river or glacial till. The flint is mottled brown with a white patination. Traces of a bulb of percussion and hinged termination survive but are very worn. This piece is undated.
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shellingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4DDC16
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One piece of debitage, a flake on white flint with some brown cortex visible on the distal end. It measures 20mm in length, 11.1mm in width and 1.5mm in thickness. It is undated.
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oddendale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AFA600
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Debitage flake on mottled dark grey flint. It measures 26.5mm in length, 20mm in width and 2mm in thickness. The date is unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crosby Ravensworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AFD632
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small fragment of flint debitage. The flint is a mottled light grey with a white patination on the dorsal face. The fragment measures 19.1mm in length, 13.5mm in width and 2mm in thickness. The date is unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Asby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5A2753
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped sandstone disc, of unknown use and unknown date. Unlike many of the other stone discs in the locale, a great deal of care has gone into the creation of this object and it differs from them in that respect. It is a more accurate circle and has been knapped in a very precise fashion that produces a consistently angled chamfer around its edge. It is also a lot thinner than the other discs. A number of uses have been posited for these objects. One is pot lids, but they show few signs of burning or sooting or any effects of heat, and pot sherds would make better lids. However th…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Widdop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F6A0F1
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Crudely knapped sandstone disc, of unknown use mid nineteenth century or earlier. Possibly associated with hand loom use. A number of uses have been posited for these objects. One is pot lids, but this example shows no signs of burning or sooting or any effects of heat, and pot sherds would make better lids. However it does show a degree of wear as none of the knapped angles are sharp. See notes attached to LANCUM-D53456 for a discussion of the possible uses of this. Diameter 67mm, Thickness 16mm, Weight 123g.
Created on: Saturday 15th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burley in Wharfdedale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-D53456
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Crudely knapped sandstone disc, of unknown use and date, probably mid 19th century or earlier. A number of uses have been posited for these objects. One is pot lids, but they show few signs of burning or sooting or any effects of heat, and pot sherds would make better lids. However they all show a degree of wear. This particular artifact is the only one that lends support to the pot lid theory. On one face there is what appears to be a circular mark resulting from exposure to the effects of fire. It may be that this is the exception that proves the rule. Without analysis, the cause of …
Created on: Sunday 27th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Burnley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DCBBF5
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Crudely knapped stone disc, of unknown use mid nineteenth century or earlier. Possibly associated with hand loom use. A number of uses have been posited for these objects. One is pot lids, but they show few signs of burning or sooting or any effects of heat, and pot sherds would make better lids. However they all show a degree of wear. Anthony Pilling has posited a possible use, related to hand looms, as a weighted core for winding balls of yarn around them as part of a crude creel for making a warp. See notes below. Diameter 52 to 60mm, thickness 15mm. There are images of other ston…
Created on: Monday 9th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Widdop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EC7533
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worked granite rotary quern stone. Only the top half remains. The central perforation is still in good condition although does show signs of wear. The underside of this half has a chipped edge and there is a ridge to indicate the location of the quern handle.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-8100C7
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman architectural fragment from the Roman bath house adjacent to Ribchester Roman fort dating 1st to 4th century AD. The fragment is probably from a structural wall and appears to have a hole purposely drilled in it probably to mount an object or part of the interior furnishing. The length is 38mm, width 26mm and thickness 15mm. The diameter of the hole is 4mm.
Created on: Monday 9th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RIBCHESTER ROMAN BATH HOUSE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E4114D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nearly complete upper half of a Roman beehive quern, probably dating from the 2nd century AD. The stone is very heavy and dome-shaped with a very worn, but probably formerly fluted upper surface. The bottom is flat. Only a small part is missing, but the central perforation as well as the side hole for the wooden handle are still present. Unmalted grain would have been poured into the vertical perforation at the top whilst there would have been a wooden handle in the horizontal hole for turning the quern stone on top of the lower stone. The rotary quern used circular motions to grind t…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2017
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bootle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-04ADB8
Object type: CORE
Broad period: PREHISTORIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint core, light brown in colour. Evidence of areas were flakes were struck off, bulbous percusions viable.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garstang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-941C91
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small stone fragment, possibly the remains of a whetstone. Date uncertain. The surfaces are too worn and damaged to be abolutely certain that this was, indeed, an artefact. It may be natural. It is was a whetstone, the date range would be 2000BC-AD1900, as single stray finds of simple whetstones are notoriously difficult to date.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-944C16
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of flint debitage, very difficult to date. The fragment is very worn and probably some kind of waste flake that was chipped off the core and discarded. Since flint was in use until the early modern period in this area, it is very difficult to date it without context. However, flint does natually appear on the west coast of Britain and thus, the fragment probably came off a core that was brought here from the east.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-602305
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small platform gun-flint, probably from a pocket pistol dating between 1600-1800AD. The flint is rectangular in plan, with sub-parallel lateral margins, and trapezoidal in section and triangular in profile. A flint core would have been quartered and knapped with metal punches to produce suitably broad rectangular flakes which would then have been dressed and segmented into square chunks. The flint has bimarginal worked edges, and worked distal and proximal ends. Apart from the edges, the ventral face is smooth and flat. The dorsal face is chamfered on both sides and at both ends, havi…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 14th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-422273
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval strike a light flint. The knapping technique is similar to that of contemporary gun flints (for example YORYM-831015 and SF7325). For examples of the iron striker element see LON-6357F6 and LON-71B542. They are both probably dating to the 17th century and quite likely to be contemporary with this flint. This strike a light flint is most likely to date between c1600 and c1850 AD. The length is 41mm, the width is 15mm, the depth is 8mm, and the weight is 7.94g.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-1C8DF3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval/modern gun-flint from a flintlock musket. The flint is rectangular in plan and cross-section with sloping edges to give it a trapezoidal side view. The flint is greyish brown in colour. It appears to have been abandoned during the fabrication process as the bevelled edge is fractured away at one edge. The length is 22mm, the width is 19mm thickness 5mm and the weigh 1.77g. The flintlock was introduced in the middle of the 16th century but it was not until the reign of William III that the flintlock became the main regulation firearm for the British Army. The knapped…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-104311
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval tertiary mid grey square gunflint with metal residue on the lower striking edge. From a flintlock firearm, probably a musket, possibly a rifle. Stuart to Victorian in date (c1650 to c1850 AD). Length 21mm, width 20mm, thickness 6.5mm, and mass 3.9g
Created on: Sunday 17th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 1st September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laneshaw Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.