Record ID: HESH-ABF3E7
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete ground and polished axehead formed of a very fine grained siliceous stone / banded flint of probable Neolithic date (3000-2000 BC). The axe is knapped from a flint which has banded colours which range from a bale cream buff through to a deep chocolate brown. There are areas of mid orange staining across the body and this is possibly as a result in the burial environment - possibly indicating deposition within soils that are iron rich or have a predilection towards iron panning / waterlogging. The matrix of the stone is smooth although areas of highly polished mid grey white…
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weald Moors', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-757570
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint handaxe. The axe is essentially sub-cordate in form, but its shape is distorted by an angular projection to one side of the butt end. It has been struck on a thermal fractured flake from a larger nodule. The edges and ridges on both faces are fairly abraded or 'rolled'. A small amount of cortex remains on the ventral face and slightly more in patches on the dorsal face. There is differential patination on each face with a mottled light brown, orange stained patina covering the dorsal face, but only extending across c.40 % of the ventral face leaving the dark brown col…
Created on: Monday 17th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Happisburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-ADD4AE
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lower Palaeolithic flake dating to 800,000 - 250,000 BC, possibly Clactonian. The flake is sub-rectangular in shape and has a crested cross-section. This is a primary flake where the whole of the dorsal and ventral face are covered by a smooth light brown cortex with a rougher beige patina in some areas. There is short, scaled low angled retouch on both faces at the distal end, and in one corner of proximal end. The sides of the flake have short, stepped low angled retouch. Where there is retouch the cortex has been chipped away and has a light greyish brown patina, apart from on…
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-AD272D
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lower Palaeolithic flint ficron handaxe dating to 800,000 - 250,000 BC. The fragment is trapezoidal in plan, and lozenge-shaped in cross-section. Both faces have invasive, semi-abrupt, scaled retouch. The sides of the fragment have short, scaled, low angled retouch. The distal end has an old break and a width of 28.3mm. The fragment then tapers outwards towards a wider butt which also has an old break with a width of 39.3mm. Both ends are lozenge-shaped in cross-section and are patinated with multi shades of grey and white patches. Both faces have a concave profile …
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th May 2019
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Record ID: BERK-AC1D73
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lower Palaeolithic flint sub-cordate handaxe dating to c.300,000 - 200,000 BC. The handaxe is ovoid in plan and pointed oval in cross-section. Both faces have invasive, semi-abrupt, scaled retouch. Around the sides of the whole handaxe there are short, stepped, low angled retouch. On one face at the wide rounded butt there are angled jagged breaks which are patinated with multi shades of grey and white patches. Due to this break and the fact that it is bifacially worked, it is difficult to determine the dorsal and ventral face. The rest of the flint has a light brown …
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-5C42EA
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic unifacial flint handaxe dating from the Acheulean period (400,000 to 160,000 years BP). The handaxe is pointed in plan and plano-convex in profile and in section (Wymer type F); it is 128.5 mm in length, 77.5 mm in width, 43.5 mm in thickness and 332.15 g in weight. The handaxe was made on a flake removed from a large beach cobble. The point of percussion is visible at the proximal butt end. The ventral face has been trimmed flat by the removal of several shallow flakes from the right margin. There is an oval inclusion, as part of a fault, of coarse cortical mater…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Sunday 24th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-232ED6
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Lower Palaeolithic (500,000 to 40,000 BC) implement: handaxe. The axe is knapped from flint which is heavily patinated, and is a mottled bright brown-orange due to iron staining. The axe is incomplete or fragmentary, and the break is across the section revealing a sub-triangular section. The break is not too recent, but does have a mottled light yellow/beige colour. The implements' overall original shape is difficult to determine, but what remains is triangular. The axe is bifacially flaked with rolled edges. The flakes vary in size but reveal conchoidal ripples. The imp…
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WREX-DAAB27
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Acheulean handaxe c. 500,000 to 180,000 BP. Translucent brown flint with a darker brown sub-circular patch at the centre of the object. the axe is ovate in plan and pointed oval in section. Bifacially flaked using soft hammer. Length: 157mm; width: 77.8mm; thickness: 35.5mm; weight: 409.8g
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horsham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-DA21E3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint bifacial ovate hand axe dating from the Lower Palaeolithic period, originally from the collection of Roy Rainbird Clarke (1914-1963). The hand axe belongs to the Acheulean tradition and is classified by Wymer (1999) as Mode 2, Type K on page 11, fig.4. Made on a large flint flake which has been worked by the removal of flakes around the circumference of the flake to produce a roughout, followed by thinning using a soft hammer to remove shallow flakes from both faces, removing all traces of the original flint cortex. The domed dorsal face has been finished by the removal of a s…
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-20C795
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade, soft hammer struck from an opposed platform core. The blade is patinated dark brown with elongated small white inclusions. There appears to be no recent damage so the original colour of the flint cannot be determined, though the bulb of percussion was broken in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture, and a spall to form a burin was struck from this break. One side near the distal end has been semi-invasively flaked (or "bruised") on the ventral face to form a shallow concavity and the mid-point to the opposite lateral edge has been steeply retou…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-88B913
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A flint barb and tanged arrowhead of Early Bronze Age date. The arrowhead is triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in cross-section. Two notches chipped into the base of the flint separates the barbs and the tang. The arrowhead is bificially worked with covering, scaled, low angle retouch. The arrowhead has been made on a mid-grey piece of flint and there is no cortex remaining. The object dates to the Early Bronze Age or Beaker period, 2400-1600BC. Dimensions: 31mm in length, 25mm in width, 3.5mm thick, 1.8g
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sproston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F7E419
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bolton
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flaked flint dagger of early Bronze Age date, 2,500-1,500BC. The object is a pointed oval in plan and lozenge shaped in cross-section. The flint is flaked on each face with covering retouch. Along each long edge and around the point is short, parallel low-angle retouch. The implement has been made on a grey-brown to dark grey flint. Dimensions: 141mm in lenght, 47mm in width (at centre), 6mm thick (at centre), 10mm in width (at the point), 14mm in width (at the butt end). A similar dagger which has been recorded on the PAS database is SF-AFF8C5, https://finds.org.uk/database/a…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-83DBD7
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete axehead roughout/preform of Neolithic date (c. 4000-2500 BC). The axehead has been manufactured on medium grey coloured flint with large white inclusions, which has now patinated to an olive green colour which in places is extremely dark. On one face of the roughout, two concavities are visible where cortex has been preserved, as well as a smaller patch on the other face. The piece has been intensively worked and thus the original nature of the support type is unclear. Most of both faces are covered with negative flake scars from initial hard hammer percussion which has ser…
Created on: Monday 21st December 2015
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-837791
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete axe roughout/preform dating to the Neolithic (c. 4000-2500 BC). The roughtout has been initiated on material which was originally grey in colour and containing large grey inclusions, but has now been stained an olive green with darker patches. Approximately 3/4 of the roughout remains, with the bottom quarter probably having been lost during manufacture. A single flake resulting from modern edge damage has been detached from the tip-end of the axe, which shows the original grey colour of the raw material. The broken end of the axe demonstrates a negative hinge fracture, …
Created on: Monday 21st December 2015
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-8B9CEA
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete unpolished flaked axe of Neolithic date and of Scandinavian type. The object has a convex cutting edge and straight parallel sides which taper to a squared off butt end. The cutting edge measures 64mm in width and is 3mm thick. A large oval flake has been removed from one face just above the cutting edge in recent times and is likely due to plough damage. Each face of the object has been worked with flaking. The flaked sides taper evenly towards the butt end which is rectangular in cross-section. The butt end measures 25.5mm in width and is 22mm thick. The butt e…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dinedor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAJN-66BBE9
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A large Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean flint handaxe dating to c.340,000-190,000 bc (either 340,000-300,000 bc or 245,000-190,000 bc depending upon which Thames valley gravel terrace it was derived from). in slightly abraded condition. It is ovate in plan with a pointed oval cross section.
Created on: Thursday 8th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abingdon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HESH-B1BD49
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An exceptionally large flint blade of possible late (upper) Palaeolithic or more probable early Mesolithic date (12000 -6500 BC) or early Neolithic date (3500-2300 BC). The blade is broadly sub-rectangular in shape and triangular(crested) in cross section. The prepared striking platform is present as is the keeled bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The dorsal face shows a number of vertical flake scars (ridges / crests) formed by the removal of other flakes from a large prepared core prior to the creation of this blade - all these removals have been caused by blades being taken i…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 31st October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-543148
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic of Early Bronze age flint sickle fragment, 48mm long, 20mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 8.21grams. The object is rectangular in form with a slightly curved edge and is made from dark brown flint. It has been worked on both faces, to provide a triangular cross section. Its edges have been worked with fine, steep re-touch, one side steeper than the other. The object is probably a sickle fragment and is similar to ESS-DEB397 NMS-A13788
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-C54AEF
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Neolithic polished flint axehead, made from light grey mottled flint. The axe appears to have been reworked at a later date resulting in a profound asymmetric curve. The surface of one side of the polished blade is slightly concave.
Created on: Friday 20th March 2015
Last updated: Saturday 25th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-82B833
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Grey and white banded flint plano-convex knife. Long narrow flake with a single long flake removed from its dorsal side and a bulb at one end on the ventral. Covering angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows all around the edge of the flake, and is only lacking at the site of initial trimming. The natural banding of the material is exploited for its decorative effect in a highly accomplished piece, and the initial and secondary working appears intended to permit the comfortable use of the tool, which is gently curved in profile. Suggested date: Early Bronze Age, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Saturday 25th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fonaby', grid reference and parish protected.