Record ID: SOM-1382F5
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single blade-like flake of flint debitage of uncertain date, probably Neolithic to Bronze Age. A secondary flake of mid-brown to grey flint, with c. 33% of the dorsal face retaining cortex at the distal end. It is sub-triangular in cross-section and broadly sub-rectangular in plan, with roughly parallel sides but which converge at the proximal and distal ends. It has a small bulb of percussion surviving a the distal end, lacking a scar, from which radiate relatively shallow conchoidal ripples. The striking platform has survived at the proximal end, with some potential evidence for p…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5A816E
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single flake of knapped flint of uncertain date. A secondary flake of mottled grey flint, with two small areas of surviving sandy, beige cortex at the proximal and distal ends, covering c. 15-20%. The striking platform is no longer present, although there is the suggestion of a large bulb of percussion. Sub-parallel removal scars are present on the dorsal face, struck from the same direction as the overall removal. In addition, struck from around 45 degrees to the others and cutting through the cortex, are three, small, parallel low angle removal scars, with this edge shows signs of…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5A0C41
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three flakes of Chert debitage, of probable Later Neolithic or Bronze Age date. All three flakes are of a gritty, brown chert, with two being secondary, and the third tertiary. This latter flake has a single much more heavily patinated removal scar, suggesting the reuse of earlier material. All of the flakes exhibit relatively irregular flake-like removals, on one flake (tertiary) clearly struck from multiple directions. Although the nature of the chert ensures that the bulbs of percussion are relatively diffuse, where they survive there is no small 'lip' below the striking platform t…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-597B96
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint flakes exhibiting limited retouch and probably dating to the later Neolithic or Bronze Age. Both flakes are incomplete, and tertiary. The first is of a mottled grey-brown flint, missing its distal end. A striking platform survives at the proximal end, with a diffuse bulb of percussion of the ventral face. A number of removal scars survive on the dorsal face, with removals from platforms both parallel and perpendicular to the overall flake removal. The right mesal edge has been blunted with abrupt, short, stepped retouch, with neater, abrupt, short, scalar, retouch to the lef…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-591F7D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude flint end scraper, of probable Later Neolithic or Bronze Age date. A secondary flake of mottled grey-brown flint, with a thin layer of sandy, beige cortex surviving at the proximal end of the dorsal face, covering c. 20%. A striking platform and relatively pronounced bulb of percussion survive at the proximal end, with a bulbar scar. A single flake-like removal scar is evident on the dorsal face. The left mesal edge has been blunted by a series of crude scalar removals struck perpendicularly to the flake from the dorsal face. The distal end, curving around onto the right edge,…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-4517EB
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of three chert cores of probable Mesolithic date (c. 10,000-4000 BC). 1) The first piece retainins a thin layer of nodular cortex covering about 20 per cent of the surface. The area of cortex is irregular in shape but the rest of the core is conical. Flake and bladelet removal scars cover approximately 80 per cent of the non-cortex walls. They appear to have been removed in the same direction, from the slightly concave striking platform at the top, which shows obvious signs of dressing. The chert is dark red in colour. It measures 60.0mm long, 39.2mm wide, and 24.8…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-40D525
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a bladelet, probably Mesolithic (10,000 - 4000 BC). Dark grey, mostly opaque flint. Tertiary blade. Bulb of percussion missing. Almost flat, smooth ventral face with faint conchoidal ripples. Dorsal face shows scars of parallel flake removal. At the proximal end a later flake removal has left a negative hinge fracture. A further removal scar at the distal end has a hackly texture which may suggest heat damage. Retouched (short, scaled, semi-abrupt) all along the right-hand edge of the dorsal face (proximal end at top) and less extensively on the left-hand edge. Length: …
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashill CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2C663E
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Retouched flint flake of probably Mesolithic date. Dark grey opaque secondary flake, broadly bi-facial but irregular in shape. Cortex remains on the thickest edge, covering about 20-30 per cent of the surface area. The retouch is scaled, low-angled and (mostly?) covers both faces of the flake. The extent of the retouch obscures the identification of the ventral and dorsal faces and the bulb of percussion. The flake is also retouched all the way around the edge which is not cortex. However, the irregular shape of this edge suggests that this object was not a finished tool and that t…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2C39E4
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a lithic implement. Probably Mesolithic (10,000 - 4000 BC). Black and dark grey opaque flint. Tertiary flake. U-shaped in plan. Sub-triangular in cross-section. Invasive, scaled and low-angled retouch on the left half of one face and a little more on the right edge (when viewed with the pointed end at the bottom). This face is concave and may be the ventral face. Long, scaled and semi-abrupt retouch on the underside of the pointed end. All other faces appear to be accidental or post-depositional breaks. Length: 19.2mm, Width: 23.4mm Thickness: 11.5mm, Weight: 5.03g
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2C22EC
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of three flint cores of probable Mesolithic date (c. 10,000-4000 BC) produced during the process of bladelet manufacture. The first core (left in the photographs) is irregular in shape, but appears to have been conical prior to accidental fracture. Thick, nodular cortex remains on about 15 to 20 per cent of the surface. Part of a flat striking platform survives, from which some of the bladelets have been removed . Other bladelets have been removed from another platform, to the right, at a 45-degree angle to the first one. The surface of this second platform is concave…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2C17AB
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 34 pieces of possible Mesolithic (c. 10,000 - 4000 BC) chert debitage in the form of flakes, but including one blade. Three of the flakes are secondary, retaining cortex on about 10 per cent of their surface. The remaining pieces are tertiary. They are a range of colours: black, dark red, bright reddish-orange, grey-brown, dark grey, light grey and pale yellowish-white. Many of the pieces have bulbs of percussion on their ventral faces and an obvious striking platform. Eight of the pieces (including the blade) exhibit parallel flake or blade removal scars on their dorsal…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2BFACF
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of five retouched flint flakes of posible Mesolithic date (c. 10,000 - 4000 BC). Two of the pieces are sub-triangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross section. Another is sub-triangular in plan and long, narrow and sub-trapezoidal in cross-section. One is sub-rectangular in plan and and sub-trapezoidal in cross-section. Another is sub-oval in plan and sub-lozenge or lens shaped in cross-section. Two of the pieces are secondary flakes, retaining about 5 to 20 per cent of their cortex, the other three are tertiary flakes. Two of the pieces exhibit a bulb of percussion…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2BED44
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of seven tertiary waste flakes and blades of probable Mesolithic to Early Neolithc date (c. 10,000 - 3500 BC). Most pieces are dark-grey, some with mid-grey (patches?) and mottles. Most are irregularly shaped in plan and thin in profile. Two are sub-triangular in plan, and one of these is the most blade-like, having two ridges running parallel to its long edges on the dorsal face (top row, second from the left in the photographs). Another piece (second row, far left), mid-grey in colour, may also be fragment (possibly the tip) of a blade, having two parallel arrises on it…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2BCB76
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of three chert tertiary bladelet fragments of Mesolithic date (c. 10,000 - 4000 BC). They are grey in colour and semi-translucent at the edges. 1) The first bladelet is long and sub-rectangular in plan, with long sides that are almost parallel. It is rounded at the proximal end and square at the distal end where there is a break. It is sub-triangular and sub-trapezoidal in cross-section. The ventral face is generally flat and smooth, with a shallow bulb of percussion. The conchoidal ripples are barely perceptible. The dorsal face shows two arisses, which converge ne…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-2BA9D4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint end scraper or possibly a thumb-nail scraper of probable Late Neoltihic or Early Bronze Age date. The implement has been made from a secondary flake; cortex remains on one face, covering about 15 per cent of the object's overall surface area. The piece is roughly square in plan. It has a clear striking platform, which is flat, while the opposite (distal) end is rounded. The left and right edges are roughly parallel. On the ventral face the bulb of percussion, fissures and a bulbar scar are clear to see. However, the conchoidal ripples are flat and very faint. The retouch…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: SOM-8C3D42
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flakes of flint debitage, probably of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date, c. 3000-1000 BC. 1. Secondary flake, opaque grey/brown flint. Incomplete, missing its proximal end, lost to a natural break. Two sub-parallel negative removal scars present on dorsal face, one of which hinged. Short, semi-abrupt, sub-parallel retouch on dorsal face at distal end, with potential use related wear along right edge. Further retouch to ventral face, with short, semi-abrupt, scalar retouch in two places along right edge. Length 28.6mm; width 24.6mm; thickness 6.6mm; weight 4.77g. 2. Sec…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-8C02DD
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint debitage blade of probable later Mesolithic or Neolithic date, c. 6500-2400 BC. The surviving fragment is a tertiary blade of a heavily patinated pale grey flint, missing both the proximal and distal ends and with one of these breaks unpatinated. Three parallel negative removal scars run longitudinally down the dorsal face, there is no evidence of retouch. Dimensions: length 20.4mm; width 11.6mm; thickness 2.2mm; weight 0.72g. It is difficult to date lone flakes with confidence, however the neat blade technology visible on this fragment would be characteristi…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
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Record ID: SOM-8BC177
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper of probable Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date, c. AD 3000-1000. The scraper is worked from a secondary flake of opaque grey-brown flint mottled with paler inclusions. The flake is sub-oval in plan, and sub-trapezoidal in cross section, and from its size and thickness may be a fragment of a core. A striking platform with a diffuse, unscarred bulb of percussion survives at the proximal end. Negative removal scars from multiple directions are present on the proximal face. The flake is worked unifacially, struck from the ventral face, with relatively long, abrupt, sub-para…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-9863A4
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two chert blades both with clear bulbs of percussion on the ventral face and scars from previous parallel removals from the same platform on the dorsal face. Both have very chipped edges obscuring any retouch. One is a orange chert, heavily repatinated, the other a mid brown. They weigh 12.48g in total. The blade like shape and repeat parallel removals may suggest a Mesolithic- Neolithic date.
Created on: Monday 13th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
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Record ID: SOM-8DEE48
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal end of a retouched flint flake or blade or probably Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. The piece has snapped off a larger, but thin, flake or blade with the proximal end lost. The remaining scars on the dorsal face, and the percussion ripples on the ventral face suggets the piece was removed from a core worked in at least two directions at right angles to each other. The entire original edge has been retouched with short, parallel, semi-abrupt retouch becoming longer towards the ends of the remaining edge. It was possibly originaly part of a scraper but too little remains to b…
Created on: Sunday 12th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
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