Record ID: NMS-9E85D1
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete handaxe in rolled condition, of Wymer, J. J. (1999) type E now patinated orange, the recent chips and other damage shows the underlying flint to have originally been tones of grey. Very small and single edged, almost unifacial with most of the hard hammer struck flake scars to one face, the opposing face is mostly smooth in appearance, but there are the ridges left from a few, semi-invasive flake scars to one lateral edge and the butt, the flatter part is either from a natural thermal fracture, or the remains of the ventral surface of a large flake, the rolled and bettered con…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: SOM-FB1139
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  Lower Palaeolithic bifacial flint handaxe of Acheulean tradition dating to c. 500,000 to 250,000 BC. This is a 'ficron' type handaxe which belongs to the Middle Acheulean tradition. Acording to Wymer (1999) typology, the handaxe is sub-triangular in plan, with straight sides (edge type e), a slightly rounded tip (point type i) and a flat based butt (butt type d).  There are multiple large flaking scars covering both the dorsal and ventral sides with slightly finer flake removal along the edges. The whole artefact has orange/brown iron staining as well as heavy ab…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-8FEFA7
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and rolled flint handaxe of lower Paleolithic date (500,000-180,000 BC). The tool is bifacially worked and missing its tip but was likely of Ficron type (Wymer (1999) Type M). The tool is triangular in shape, with a tapering profile and plano convex cross section. One side retains around 40% cortex and the surface is patinated / recorticated to an orange brown from prolonged deposition in iron-rich gravels.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-06D935
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small and neatly made complete handaxe in fairly fresh condition: - of Wymer, J. J. (1999) type E/J, of very glossy orange/brown patinated mottled flint, likely to have been of grey flint initially. The dorsal face has a stack of four hinged termination flakes, failed and repeated attempts to thin the apex in the middle of this face, with a further attempt at the bottom left (if viewed with the point uppermost) has also hinged. The ventral face is centripetally flaked to shape but has left the remnants of a large hard hammer struck bulb of percussion at the butt where the flakes didn&r…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-06877E
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, incomplete handaxe of Wymer, J. J. (1999) type E/?J, of light grey/brown misty patination over a dark chocolate brown colour, the point has been broken recently at an angle revealing that the flint was originally dark brown, some of the high points to the flake scars are iron stained from contact with agricultural machinery. All surfaces have been modified by flaking so no original surfaces of the “blank” nodule or thermal fracture this handaxe was made from remain. Lower Palaeolithic, 600,000 to 250,000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-064915
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible small handaxe of Wymer, J. J.(1999) type E, of black flint now patinated dark brown with slight misty light grey colour to small parts of the hard hammer struck flake scars, the majority of the piece is a thin, flat, unmodified nodule with sandy and dark brown cortex (butt type a), only the minimum amount of semi-invasive flakes have been taken to create one cutting edge and a sharpened point by a tranchet flake removal on one face (point type vi), this minimum amount of working and one cutting edge is quite usual with type E handaxes. If intended as a handaxe rather than a Ne…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9CFE61
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, heavily rolled and water-worn flint handaxe of lower Paleolithic date (500,000-180,000 BC). The tool is 61.6mm in length and most likely of Wymer (1999) Type K. The tool is bifacially worked from a brown flint using soft hammer flaking with a lenticular cross section and a dark brown to orange patination typical of a period of prolonged deposition in iron-rich gravel deposits. Barnacles and evidence of prolonged marine exposure are also evident.
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-49B519
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete, small sub-cordate handaxe, of Wymer, J.J. (1999) type E/G, of slightly brown patinated flint of good, semi-translucent quality with few coarse inclusions, all flake scars appear to be semi-soft hammer struck and all surfaces have been modified with flakes overlapping at the centre, no trace of the original surface of the “blank” nodule, part nodule or large flake survive including the cortex. All edges and the high points to the flake scars are abraded and rolled, either from the action of the sea or the ancient river delta system that formed the Cromer Forest Bed…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A16569
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete sub-cordate handaxe of Wymer (1999) type G in lightly rolled condition, hard hammer struck flake scars to the entirety of both faces obscuring any original surfaces of the “blank” chosen to make this, the profile is of plano-convex section (one face convex, one face flatter), this suggests that the blank may have been a large thermal (frost) fracture or a large struck flake (practiced less often) as these typically have this profile naturally. Both faces are partially black/dark grey, but large areas have patinated orange/brown from exposure to iron oxides, the dar…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-787113
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower Paleolithic flint Cordate (heart-shaped) handaxe of Butler mode 2 type J  dating c. 600,000-300,000 years ago. The handaxe has a light reddish brown colour and a pointed oval section.  Both faces are finished by shallow invasive flaking (soft hammer), with the planar face also having almost continuous finer edge retouch, in places giving a step-flaked edge.There is an imperfection in the flint near the base (a hollow filled with crystals) which has been used to create the notch typically seen on Cordate handaxes. 
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-740353
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Paleolithic mode 2 ovate handaxe (500,000-300,000 years ago) that is sub-oval in plan and has a sub-oval section.  The tool is bifacially worked from a light reddish brown flint using soft hammer flaking. The surface is pitted and heavily abraded from a prolonged exposure to flowing water. 
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-903B11
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small ovate handaxe in fresh condition, of Wymer, J.J. (1999) type E/K, of partially patinated, mottled grey flint; the dorsal face is the most extensively worked with one side of the of the point left unworked, a natural fracture, this is a shade darker than the flake scars next to it and appears quite blank, the ventral face is worked around the periphery, again leaving a large natural orange patinated fracture surface unmodified in the centre; the flake scars have fallen short and hinge terminated forming an “island”, the hinges are concentrated on the poorer quality, co…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-AA5824
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. It is cordate shaped and bifacially worked, but with a small section of cortex remaining in the centre of one face. There is heavy iron staining on all surfaces and the edges are rolled.  Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 73.96mm, width: 56.27mm, thickness: 24.28mm, weight: 150g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA5159
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. Small sub-cordate shape and bifacially worked with just a small amount of cortex remaining towards the butt end of one face. The flint is dark grey-brown in colour with light speckled patination that is heavier on the face with the cortex. Rolled edges.  Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 81.46mm, width: 71.16mm, thickness: 23.00mm, weight: 141.89g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA327C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. Pointed in shape and bifacially worked with a small patch of cortex remaining in the centre of one face. The face without the cortex is more heavily patinated and all surfaces are iron stained. The edges are rolled and the pointed tip is particularly abraded. Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 112.87mm, width: 73.86mm, thickness: 37.81mm, weight: 302g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7CDF6F
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint handaxe probably of lower to middle paleolithic date (Dr Hannah Cutler pers. com.). It is large in size and ovoid in shape with a section missing from the more pointed end. There is covering flaked retouch on both faces and a small patch of cortex remaining in the centre of the dorsal face. Mottled patination on the ventral face only Length: 149.28mm, width: 106.83mm, thickness: 31.67mm, weight: 546g
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-830EA1
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe dating to circa 500,000 to 250,000 BC. It is pointed oval in plan and bificially flaked multi-directionally. The colour is grey brown significant iron staining on each face. 
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0A8E6F
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 Preform biface of  small Lower Palaeolithic Mode 2 flint  ovate handaxe of Butler (2005) Type K dating c. 500,000-250,000 years ago. The handaxe is made of dark blue-grey  flint pebble with with a white patina. The base of the handaxe has not been worked and the original surface of the pebble is present. This may be deliberate, or the axe is not finished. The handaxe is sub-oval in shape and sub-oval in section. that has had medium sized hard and soft hammer flakes removed across its entire surface.
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-0A7E9C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete small Lower Palaeolithic Mode 2 flint  ovate handaxe of Butler (2005) Type K dating c. 500,000-250,000 years ago. The handaxe is made of dark blue-grey  flint with with a white patina. The handaxe is sub-oval in shape and sub-oval in section. Bifacial handaxe that has had medium sized soft hammer flakes removed across its entire surface.
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-0A6111
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Lower Palaeolithic  handaxe  preform dating c. 500,000-250,000 years ago. The handaxe is made of  pale brownish orange flint with with an orange patina. The handaxe is sub-rectangular in shape and sub-oval in section. Bifacial handaxe that has had hard-hammer flakes removed across most of its surface, with some patina remaining near the base and on one side. .
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
Spatial data recorded.