Record ID: SWYOR-0BCEFB
Object type: GEOLOGICAL SAMPLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A perforated stone which is probably a geological phenomenon rather than an archaeological one. It is a fine grained grey stone with sparse mica inclusions and occasional pockets of a dark grey soft and powdery material. The stone is oval in plan, with smooth and fairly flat faces and slightly rounded sides. It is water worn. In the centre is a sub-circular irregular hole right through the cobble. The hole has not been drilled - it is not circular, and the inside wall has vertical striations and ridges. These do not give a magnetic response despite some orange staining. The uneven insi…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Sunday 18th February 2024
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Record ID: WILT-E78465
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone object, a probable whetstone or hone stone of unknown date. The object is formed from a finely grained light brown stone with a few micaceous inclusions. It is rectangular, smooth, with rounded edges, as if manufactured, but has breaks at both ends, one at an angle to the whole block, the other a more or less straight break. It has clearly been used to sharpen different blades or other sharp objects. There is a deep, but narrow, longitudinal scar at one end of a long broad surface, suggesting repeated use to sharpen there, and a se…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-1BBEBC
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone spindle whorl of unknown date. Description: The object remains as just under half of the original object which would have been circular in plan and D-shaped in cross-section with an internal circular apparture measuring 16mm in diameter. The outside edge has an incised circumferential ring. The stone is pale grey. Measurements: length: 68.5mm; width: 45.5mm; thickness: 13.3mm; weight: 31.96g
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-9AFE73
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of five perforated stone objects, consisting of three flat, possibly utilised as weights or pendants, one conical, possibly a spindle whorl, and one spherical, a fossilised sponge possibly utilised as a bead, all of unknown date. Flat objects Description: No.1: The object is is irregular, but broadly triangular in plan and broadly flat with rounded edges. It is perforated, likely drilled, near its edge with a circular perforation with an internal diameter of 4.2mm. The perforation has circular central ridge running around its circumference suggesting…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holland-on-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-4B8C79
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone object possibly representing a strap fitting of unknown date. The object is broadly rectangular in shape having a rectangular frame and loop with uneven edges. One long edge extends beyond the narrow edges with slight protrusions. This edge is also wider than the rest of the frame. The object is an off white colour. The object is 22.4mm long, 13.3mm wide, 4.9mm thick and weighs 4.70 grams. This object's purpose is uncertain although it shares forms with strap slides of multiple period such as , SWYOR-73FBA2, SUSS-6749E3 and DOR-8F809C or alternat…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D432F7
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
“Tally stone”, marked on a water worn pebble of mid-grey slightly banded, fine grained siltstone, in good sunlight, very, very fine specks of mica are visible within the stone. The twenty tallies are cut in to the lateral edge on the straighter of the two sides, they are a V cut with either a file (or similar) or cut with a sharp blade, the edges of which have rounded off slightly over the years and they appear to be a non-recent addition to the surface of the stone. The uppermost incision is 2.31 mm apart (measured from the deepest part of the cut to the next dee…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-BE7117
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete whetstone or honestone of unknown date. Description: The object made from dark grey stone. It is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular and in profile. One side is flat and the other side curves down to the thin end from about half way along the length. The butt has a V-shaped slot. Measurements: Length: 107.5mm long, 33.2mm wide, 17.7mm thick (at the butt), weight 112.96g.
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C75227
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a limestone circular object, possible from a rotary quern stone or weight of uncertain date. The object is greyish-lime with buff fleck and contains a fossil. The stone has some incised lines nearby the circular off-centre aperture (diameter 8.83 mm) possibly for turning. Equally, the object may have been used as a weight e.g fishing net weight. The outer edge diameter is 73.01 mm, thickness is 11.44 mm, and the weight 80.74g.  
Created on: Friday 16th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Rolleston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C2C3CC
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lava quern of unknown date, with apparently no original edge present. One face is rough and the other worn smooth with the tooled grooves scarcely visible. Thickness 35 – 40mm, weight 744g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval. Find spot falls with Square B5 of gridded survey of Hill Field conducted in 1990 and 2004-5, see file in HER.
Created on: Sunday 16th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th April 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-35519E
Object type: GEOLOGICAL SAMPLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of white and grey banded sedimentary stone of unknown date, recorded because it is exotic to the area. It is soft and fine grained, chalky in feel, with a laminated structure. The edges are weathered, revealing the strata. It has formed a triangular shape, but does not appear to have been intentionally worked. It is 99.7mm long, 23.4mm wide and 16.2mm thick. 40.3g.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-343979
Object type: GEOLOGICAL SAMPLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A waterworn stone pebble of quartzite with distinctive natural markings in the form of dark bands across the stone at right angles. The pebble is natural, but exotic to the location where it was found. It was probably brought to the site by human activity. The rounded stone is a yellow grey colour. Stephen Poole (geologist) describes the dark lines as caused by fluid getting into the bedding plane lines. The stone is eyecatching and was probably intentionally selected and placed, though at what date is unknown. It was found about 30m from a bowl barrow. It is 68.6mm long, 52.5mm wide a…
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DE8E86
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Near spherical bead of unknown date, probably made of stone. It has a circular perforation passing through it with straight tapering sides and a larger opening at one end than the other. The stone is pale yellowish-brown with patches of darker yellowish-brown. Undecorated beads are difficult to date. It is probably not prehistoric as those tend to have a perforation that is hourglass-shaped in profile. Length (measured along perforation): 14.9mm. Diameter (perpendicular to perforation): 14.7mm. Diameter of perforation (large end): 5.2mm, (small end): 4.1mm. Weight. 3.8g  
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: KENT-43416C
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fossilised sponge possibly utilised as a bead during an unknown date period. Description: The bead is irregularly spherical with flattened top and bottom through which an even perforation has occurred. It has an mottled beige to light brown colour Measurements: diameter: 15.7mm; height: 13mm; weight: 3.5g Discussion: These fossilised sponge are mostly the Late Cretaceous species Porosphaera globularis, with the perforation forming naturally. Their use as beads outside of archaeological contexts is almost impossible to posit (Riguad et al 2008). Though examples clearl…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2022
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-9334B0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wirral
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete whetstone of uncertain date. The object is oval and made of a dark brown / red stone, rich in mica, posibly a local sandstone. The surface is marked with distinctive lines, indicative of its use as a whetstone. One face is roughly flat and is inscribed with a triangle the covers the whole width of the stone. The dating of whetstones is difficult as they were used from the Bronze Age to modern times. Dimensions: Length 91.95mm; width 40.91mm; thickess 29.4mm; weight 150.3g
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clatterbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-B55FFC
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete whetstone or hone of rectangular cross-section in highly micaceous, pinkish grey, fine grained stone, date uncertain, probably medeival or post-medieval. Along one narrow side two V-sectioned sharpening grooves run from near the end to be truncated by the break. The end measures 65 x 40mm, the probably old break 42 x 18 - 23mm. Extant length 80mm. Weight 251g.
Created on: Sunday 12th July 2020
Last updated: Sunday 12th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4337F6
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Rhineland lava quern of unknown date, all edges broken, one face tooled, thickness 25mm, weight 133g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5BE741
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Rhineland lava quern of unknown date, with one non-tooled surface extant, all edges broken, extant thickness 42mm, weight 163g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-5B94A2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone bead of uncertain date. The bead is spherical and formed of a fine grained sandstone with a high proportion of quartzite. An approximately central drilled hole is present displaying concentric rings within. The outer surface of the bead has a slightly flattened surface with a shallowly incised design featuring repeating X’s within a linear border. The object is 5.7mm tall, 14.6mm in diameter and weighs 1.4g. The perforation is 7.2mm in diameter. The object does not display any clearly diagnostic features and was recovered removed from any context. As such…
Created on: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-0B732C
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
2 undated flakes and 1 Neolithic arrowhead found in the same area. Left to right: A1 Undated sandstone flake. A2 Neolithic tanged arrowhead. Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, -3300 to -1000. Pumice stone worked into a tanged arrowhead. A3 Undated retouched burnt flake. Semi-abrupt, sub-parallel retouch on the ventral face of a plunging, broken, secondary flint flake. Burnt, craze-cracked all over.
Created on: Saturday 4th January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 4th January 2020
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