Record ID: SF-90078F
Object type: AXE MOULD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed axe mould. Two separate valves were found, one almost complete and one fragmentary, while the inner section of what originally would have been a three-piece mould is now missing. Complete valves are rare finds. See PAS record: SF-839555 for a very similar example, also from Suffolk and BERK-56BD17 from Oxfordshire. This is a mould for a Southeastern Type socketed axe (Ewart Park Phase c.1000-800BC), which are the most common socketed axes found in the UK. 1. Length: 113.17mm, width: 52.64mm, thickness at sock…
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-145F64
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Neolithic flaked an polished flint axe. It is roughly triangular in shape, with largely straight sides and a slightly outwards curving blade end. Both faces are covered with scaled, covering retouch and have been partially polished on the ridges between the flaking scars. The blade end has also been polished to create a sharp cutting edge. There is an abrupt break across the butt end and its tip is missing. The flint is an opaque light grey in colour with some surface patination. Length: 94.87mm, width: 48.86mm, thickness: 11.93mm, weight: 16.37g
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6937BB
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished flint axe dating to the Neolithic period, c. 4000-2500 BC. The axe corresponds to Clough's (Clough et al 1979) type A, 'thick butted' pieces with thick oval/lenticular sections and broad butts. The axe is broadly sub-rectangular in plan view and lenticular in section, with a rounded butt and convex cutting edge. The original colour of the raw material utilised is unclear, though the axe now demonstrates a creamy white patina that in places mottles to a reddish brown. Originally, the object would have been knapped into a roughout form and then ground to form a smoot…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-69077F
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped and polished axe dating to the Neolithic period, c. 4000-2500 BC. The axe corresponds to Clough's (Clough et al 1979) type A, 'thick butted' pieces with oval/lenticular sections and broad butts. The axe was initially knapped in roughout form a piece of light greyish flint (now patinated to a deep mottled brown), and then ground to form a smooth, polished surface which covers almost the entire object. In plan view it is teardrop-shaped with a rounded and thinned butt which expands outwards to a convex cutting edge, while being broadly lenticular in section. Numero…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5BEB1D
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and re-worked flint implement, possibly an axe of Mesolithic to Neolithic date. It is struck from a grey flint and has patinated/stained blue grey surfaces that have evidence of later, unpatinated, retouch. One edge is crescentic in form and has bifacial low angled and scaled retouch producing a sub-oval cross section. The remaining sides and end of the implement have later crude semi-abrupt to abrupt retouch and some post-depositioal damage, with the natural unpatinated flint visible. The entire object measures 58.63mm in length, 60.35mm in width, 15.34mm in thickness, …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A4D226
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron axe of uncertain date. It is missing the socket due to old breaks. At the socket end it is rectangular in form and section, with possible traces of the curving socket just visible in the old breaks. It flares to a flattened, curving blade that gives the entire object a triangular plan when viewed from above. The cutting edge flares slightly at the top, and extends much further down below the socket where it has a rounded (incomplete?) lower tip. All surfaces have iron corrosion and some encrustation. It measures 109.44mm in length, 24.19mm in width and 30.13mm in th…
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 11th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D10CE4
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age of uncertain date. Half of the socket and the butt end are missing due to old breaks, the remainder of the object complete but with extensive corrosive iron products and encrustation. It is triangular in form and section with flat front face and down-curving rear face. The cutting edge is almost vertical, curving slightly towards its base. The remains of a circular or oval eye are visible at the butt end, which is rectangular in section, but the precise form of this end of the axe is uncertain due to its preservation. This axe measures 115.27mm in surviving leng…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Cornard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F59824
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy axe of Bronze Age date. Only the corner of the blade end survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It is rectangular in form, triangular section with one side and part of the sharpened blade surviving. The fragment has a dark green patina and measures 15.90mm in width, 9.86mm in length, 5.09mm in thickness and 2.33g in weight. This is a fragment from the blade of a Bronze Age axe, however due to the preservation of the object it is uncertain whether it belongs to a flat axe, a palstave or socketed axe. It may therefore date to any po…
Created on: Friday 24th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-581FD5
Object type: AXE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small body fragment of a cast, copper-alloy Sompting socketed axe of early Iron Age date. Only a small sub-rectangular section of the main body of the axe survives with the breaks indicating its fragmentation in antiquity. The reverse is plain but the obverse displays remains of two parallel ribs terminating one pellet-in-circlet each. There are parallels in Pendleton (1999), no. 125 and 130. The axe is likely to date from the eighth century BC. The length is 20.14mm, the width is 16.79mm, the thickness is 2.67mm and it weighs 4.00g. Dot Boughton notes: 'Complete Early Iron Age s…
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Wilbraham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-904B71
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and reworked polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is rectangular in form, pointed oval in section and struck from a pale, mottled grey to white flint. Areas of polishing remain visible on both faces and along one edge, but the original object has been subject to extensive bifacial retouch and flake removal, particularly at the crescentic cutting edge, resulting in an object that is probably less than half the length of the original axe. It has perhaps been re-used as a relatively crude axe or alternatively reworked as a core. The entire object measures 82.69mm in len…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2012
Last updated: Saturday 8th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Margaret Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-084950
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete polished flint axe of Neolithic date. Only one end of the axe survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It is oval sectioned, triangular in form and tapers towards a cutting edge that has relatively neat edge retouch. Both faces have bifacial flake removal with traces of polishing are visible on both sides in very small patches. The entire object has a mottled dark red/brown to white patination that is visible at the old break as well as on all other exterior surfaces, indicating that it was damaged in antiquity and has been subject to subsequent stai…
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frostenden', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-759240
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small dark grey lithic implement. It is oval in shape and slightly d-shaped in section suggesting that it was made on a flake. It has been bifacially worked and is most likely a small axe which would have been hafted. It measures 60.12mm in length, 27.85mm in width, 14.49mm in thickness and weighs 28.01g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Croxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-941624
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished stone axe of Neolithic date. It is oval shaped in form and section, and formed from a dense volcanic stone possibly from a source in the Lake District, although this is uncertain without further scientific analysis. The crescentic, convex cutting edge is partially incomplete due to old breaks but the object is otherwise intact. Both faces of the axe show signs of post-depositional wear, with one face being particularly pitted and rough possibly due the nature of its deposition in the ground or given its findspot through exposure to water. Any original highly polish…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F97721
Object type: AXE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast lead object in the form of a small or miniature axe or axehead of uncertain date. It has a worn triangular blade that is triangular in section and with a blunt, vertical cutting edge that has suffered from post-depositional damage. At the haft end the blade extends to a rectangular sectioned head that curves downwards and has a vertical circular aperture for attachment to a now missing handle. The entire object shows signs of post-depositional damage and cracking, and is relatively crudely cast with transverse ridges visile around the aperture on top and bottom surfaces. I…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1D7E43
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, but encrusted and corroded, iron axe head of possible Roman date. It has a curved and flaring blade that has a triangular longitudinal section. The axe expands to the poll end, which curves downwards, is flat and rectangular in form. The eye through which the axe would have originally have been hafted is oval with an integral projecting lug at the blade end on the upper surface. All surfaces of the axe show signs of extensive corrosive iron products and encrustation, but the axe appears complete. It measures 171mm in length, 40.09mm in width at poll end, 46.23mm in height …
Created on: Monday 4th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BD63E7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and re-worked polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is formed from a mottled grey flint that has staining in places on the surfaces probably resultant from modern agricultural activity. The axe is plano-convex in section and has broken at both the butt and blade end. At the butt end there are the remains of all over polishing with residual flake scars and polished edges that are slightly flattened. The blade end appears to have been broken, perhaps as a result of usage, and subsequently re-worked with crude bifacial flaking and retouch visible on all surfaces producin…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Peter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-432A13
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is formed from a grey flint that has mottled grey/brown patination, with evidence of plough damage evident from parallel plough scars. The axe is plano-copnvex in section with a crescentic blade that has a vertical cutting edge. It has all-over polish with residual flake scars in places and flattened, polished sides. This axe measures 149.55mm in length, 77.11mm in width, 33.65mm in thickness, and weighs 469g. This axe dates to the Neolithic period, c.3500-2100 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 4th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DC8F01
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished flint axe of Neolithic date. It is formed from a grey flint that has surfaces which have been stained to a mottled light orange/brown colour and with slight plough damage in places. It is plano-convex in section with a crescentic blade that is slightly dished in profile, probably as a result of polishing, and has abrasion marks on both faces. The entire object has all over polish with residual flake scars and polished edges that are semi-flattened. This axe measures 155mm in length, 64.04mm in width, 28.92mm in thickness, and weighs 340g. This axe dates to the Neolithic per…
Created on: Thursday 8th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 9th April 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-83CF57
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished flint axehead made from light grey flint with one large white patch. It is of regular shape with a rounded tip and slightly flattened edges. All over polish with a few flake scars and some slight staining. Crescent shaped damage to blade end. It measures 154mm in length, 63.60mm in width, 34.92mm in thickness, and weighs 375g. This axehead is of Neolithic date, c.3500-2100 BC.
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arwarton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-469341
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modified polished flint axehead of Neolithic to Iron Age date. The original polished axe has been broken at each end where it has been re-worked and utilised as a hammer stone, a tool for abrasion or for similar purposes. In its current state the tool is oval shaped in section and sub-rectangular in form, expanding at one end and contracting at the other towards rounded ends. Evidence of the original polished axehead can be seen through the presence of flat sides that are heavily polished and with an off-white patina. Similarly, the carefully flaked convex faces of the object demonst…
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buxhall', grid reference and parish protected.