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Record ID: LANCUM-B11D02
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small waste flint, probably from tool knapping. The flint is quite small and of dark brown colour. The surface and edges are still crisp and seem hardly worn at all. Although there may be signs of retouch, there are no traces of patination or further working. Because of its size and doubtful origin it is classed here as waste flake or debitage.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-B127D5
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small waste flint, probably from tool knapping. The flint is very small and honey brown in colour. The surface is worn and it does not show any sign of patination, retouch or working and as such is classed here as waste flake or debitage.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-825D97
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement, probably a knife or scraper. It was knapped from light grey speckled flint and is hardly patinated. The dorsal face shows several large facets while the ventral face shows numerous waves/ripples. There are retouch marks forming a very ragged edge all around the edges on both the ventral and dorsal faces, although they are slightly more pronounced on the dorsal face.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Catterall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-B5A373
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large rough out for a Neolithic axe of Langdale type. The axe is knapped from a dark green/grey volcanic tuff which has developed a mottled brown/greyish patina. This rock type is formed from compressed volcanic ash that is found in Britain in a band that runs from the Lake District (the Langdale’s source Group VI), through North Wales (Graig Lwyd Group VII), and into Cornwall and Devon (Groups XVI and IV respectively). Volcanic tuff is similar to flint in that it can be flaked, ground and polished. Considering the findspot, the source for this axe is from Langdale. The rough out i…
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Aspatria', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-628C36
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age oblique flint arrowhead or (possibly) tip of flint spearhead, 56mm long and 47mm wide at base. Though broken at tip and base, the object is in good condition with a pale-cloudy patina of light grey colour. The arrowhead has two slightly curving sides which are covered in very fine re-touch. Due to the damage we cannot be certain of its original length. It is possible, however, that the base had a crescent shape - similar to other flint arrowheads and spearheads of that period.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Glassonby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-A850F3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medium-sized artefact (knife/blade?) made from dark brown/grey flint. Generally it is axe-head-shaped and the curved side seems to have been the main cutting edge. This edge (the others less so) shows retouch where the blade was knapped and sharpened.
Recorded at Penrith Museum Finds Day 2007
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Murton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-14F8F0
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scraper is a unifacially retouched tool with a steep wide angled edge. It is designed to scrape material such as wood, bone and hide.One important variety is the thumbnail scraper, which characteristically tends to be small and discoid in outline. This small, circular worked flint is from the Mesolithic period. It is dark brown in colour with transluscent edges. The cortex covers the dorsal surface, with the exception of the worked edges. The striking platform and bulb of percussion are both evident. The flint measures 18.12mm x 17.58mm and weighs 1.50g.
These flints form part of…
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-153661
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scraper is a unifacially retouched tool with a steep wide angled edge. It is designed to scrape material such as wood, bone and hide. One important variety is the thumbnail scraper, which characteristically tends to be small and discoid in outline. This very small, circular flint is from the Mesolithic period. It is dark bown in colour. On the ventral surface, the striking platform and bulb of percussion are evident, with some rippling. The flaking scars almost completely cover the dorsal surface and it has been finely worked. The flint measures 14.67mm x 13.30mm and weighs 1.80g.Th…
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-1562F2
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scraper is a unifacially retouched tool with a steep wide-angled edge. It is designed to scrape material such as wood, bone and hide. One important variety is the thumbnail scraper, which characteristically tends to be a small discoid in outline. This sub-circular flint tool dating from the Mesolithic period, has a dark brown glassy hue on the ventral side, with a central area of cortex remaining above the working on the dorsal side. A small flake has broken off just below the striking platform. It measures 17.88mm x 16.95mm and weighs 2.33g.
These flints form part of a large ant…
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-A807D5
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scraper is a unifacially retouched tool, with a steep wide-angled edge. It is designed to scrape material such as wood, bone and hide. One important variety is the thumbnail scraper, which characteristically tends to be a small discoid in outline. This sub-circular chert dating to the Mesolithic period is light grey in colour with some white mottling and a dull, matt hue. It has a dark grey stripe , which runs obliquely across both sides. A flake has been removed across the stripe, creating a ridge on the dorsal side. It is well worked around the edges. It measures 26.86mm x 23.70mm…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-A91895
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blade is an elongated flake that was detached from a core-the rule of thumb being more than twice as long as it is wide. Blades were often modified and mounted in handles or hafts.
This blade, dating to the Mesolithic period, is grey in colour, with almost half the cortex remaining on the dorsal face.It is blunt at one end and rounded at the other. There are several flaking scars and the edges are well worked. It measures 51.28mm x 14.67mm and weighs 3.16g.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-477CF6
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scraper is a unifacially retouched tool, with a steep wide-angled edge.It is designed to scrape material such as wood, bone and hide. One important variety is the Thumbnail scraper which tends to be a small discoid in outline. This Mesolithic flint is dark grey in coliur and was circular until breakage across the striking platform created two flaking scars at right angles to each other. A piece of cortex on the dorsal face has not been removed and creates a central ridge across the face. It is well worked at the edges. It measures 30.61mm x 25.58mm and weighs 6.77g.These flints form…
Created on: Monday 19th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Anglezarke Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-177CC5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete 'D' shaped scraper knapped from grey black flint and dating from the late Neolithic period 2500-2100BC, possibly a Riley Type 5 (Bond, C. Plate 5.112 and 5.113). The scraper is complete, made from a short, round flake with retouch along the total distal and halfway up the two mesial edges. Both the ventral and dorsal faces are very smooth with even ripple marks. Scrapers could have many uses from scraping the fat off animal skins, to scraping the bark off arrow shafts. The length is 42mm, width 34mm, thickness 6mm and the weight is 14.21g.
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Sunday 4th December 2016
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This findspot is known as 'WYCOLLER', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-17B375
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Mesolithic grey/green rhyolite borer and possibly also used as a chisel. Dates to between c10000 to c7000 BC.
Measuring 3lmm long, 16mm wide, 11mm and weighing 4.76g.
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Saturday 15th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Trawden', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-E5ADE8
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small complete microlith made from yellowish/honey-coloured flint dating from the later Mesolithic-early Neolithic period. The microlith is very small and may have been formed from a snapped bladelet using the microburin technique. It is likely that this flint would have been one part of a composite tool or weapon which utilised many other small flints, quite possibly an arrow or a spear or harpoon.
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 25th November 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-799F15
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is very long and heavy and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if, after the stone had been chosen, the knapper started to make the axe, which never went further than the rough-out state. There is no sign of finished or polished edges or surface and the sides taper to a point rather than the vertically knapped edge that finished Langdale axes have. Clearly, the rough-out was discarded before it was finished for unknown reason. The chips missing from the sides…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Lakes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-79B9A5
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly an almost complete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is very long and heavy and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if, after the stone had been chosen, the knapper started to make the axe, but never exceeded the rough-out stage. There is no sign of finished or polished edges or surface and the sides taper to a point rather than the vertically knapped edge that finished Langdale axes have. One of the ends was either not worked at all, or broke off at some point shortly before or after the rough-out was…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Lakes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-7BE356
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete axehead rough-out of later Neolithic date (c. 2500-2100 BC). This rough-out is broadly tear-shaped and has a biconvex cross-section throughout its length. It looks as if the axe was completed - the outer surface is smooth and looks polished and one side shows the characteristic vertically knapped edge. However, it looks as if the axe was discarded before it was finished. The chips missing from the sides and the surface show old wear and it is unlikely that it was ever completed and/or used.
The rough-out is knapped from a greenish/grey buff volcanic tuff. This…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-F05027
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified stone object, possibly a small axe or whetstone dating from the Neolithic period, i.e. c. 3500-1500BC. the artefact is very small and the surfaces as well as the edges soft to the touch. Even though this artefact is light-weight and no longer sharp, Dr Robert Collins (North East FLO) suggests that it may have been a Neolithic tool made from a local groundstone. He suggests that these groundstone axes can very much vary in size and they do not necessarily have holes drilled in. They were simply bound into a forked or prepared haft, and glued and tied into place. Some of th…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th March 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Stocksfield', 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.
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