Record ID: CORN-A7CCE4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A black polished stone tool or implement, of probable Neolithic to Post medieval date (c. 2500 BC - 1900AD). It is oval in plan and sub oval in cross section. The stone is thickest in the centre, tapering down towards each end. It is black in colour with a smooth, polished surface. There are three grooves present which are brown in colour, probably due to the presence of dried mud. Evident on both ends are striations possibly caused by the object being repeatedly rubbed against a hard surface, suggesting that it was possibly used as a burnishing or smoothing tool. It could possibl…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 28th October 2022
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Record ID: DOR-A3B4E2
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of banded quartzitie pebble which has a smoothed surface and a well defined angled facet where it has probably been used in a polishing or abrading process. One end of a rounded, water-worn pebble of banded grey and pink quartzite. Date: Neolithic to Post Medieval (probably) - 4000 BC to AD 1700 Dimensions: 56.5 mm x 35.5 mm x 36.5 mm Weight: 10.3 g
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2021
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Record ID: SF-6BA671
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of burnt flint, unworked. It weighs 10.24g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6D75C3
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thick, broad cortical flake from an orangey grey translucent chert nodule. The ventral surface has parallel feathered flakes invading from the margins but this may not be intentional as it is accompanied by bruising and crushing damage. This sort of appearance can be found on hammer stones but this is an awkward shape and may have been used as a striker against a lump of iron pyrites. This produces a weak spark which with skill can make fire.D.L.Clarke(1970) illustrates 2 examples in a Beaker context where the striker is found with a corroded lump of 'iron ore' on page 374, fig 780 …
Created on: Saturday 1st October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
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Record ID: DEV-1F5424
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of ten worked flint tools found in the same field. Nine of the tools appear to be prehistoric pieces, including some scrapers, but one (top right in photo) is probably a post-medieval gunflint.
Created on: Monday 3rd January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Record ID: DEV-1F2102
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twelve prehistoric retouched flint flake tools found in the same field, and one probable post-medieval gun flint.
Created on: Monday 3rd January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Record ID: NCL-1CDAC1
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cylindrical sandstone pestle with rounded ends of unknown date
Created on: Monday 6th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-C5E755
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete flint axehead of Neolithic date (3500 BC – 2100 BC). One end of the axe survives the remainder is lost to an old break. This is probably the butt end and represents about one third of unusually large axe. The butt is rounded and the sides taper outward from the butt. It is pointed oval in section, thickening from the flat butt to the break. The axe was shaped with large, invasive shallow flakes then smaller shallow scaler retouch covering the entire surface of both sides. It is 83.4mm long, 75.9mm wide and 40.8mm thick; it weighs 229.4 grams. Flaked axes were used as tools…
Created on: Monday 20th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Oxney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E3E865
Object type: BURNT FLINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lump of calcinated flint. 62.7mm long, 36.7mm wide, 32.6mm thick and 86 grams in weight. The piece appears to be a fragment from an unshaped nodule and in thus hard to date. The piece was found with SUSS-F6E000 and therefore may date to a similar period. Calcinated flint (produced by heating flint to a high temprature and then cooling it either naturally or quickly by quenching in water), was used as temper in Bronze Age and Neolithic pottery in this region and more recently as pottery temper and as an ingrediecnt for glass and glazes. It is also a common by-product of heating chalk t…
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-B4D8A6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Prehistoric (probably but might be later, Roman or Medieval) flint scraper. This is a primary flake with the majority of the dorsal surface covered in cortex. There is retouch along the length of the distal end. The scraper is an atypical size and shape. There is some modern edge damage. Dimensions: length: 109.96mm; width: 81.91mm; thickness: 24.45mm; weight: 236.90g. Identification by Jon Cotton, Senior Prehistoric Curator Museum of London.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of London', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-89E695
Object type: GRINDSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Prehistoric - Post Medieval rounded stone (Highland granite) object possibly a grinder or a smoother. The stone has been worked to form a globular shape with one surface slightly flattened, possibly through use. Jon Cotton and Geoff Egan suggest that it may be a grinder or have a use in the laundry process but it is a little small to be a linen smoother. It is impossible to assign a date with any degree of certainty. The stone could have been deliberately brought to London for manufacturing or it may have arrived in London as ballast and then be modified. Dimensions: diame…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of London', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-FCC827
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Neolithic polished stone axe. The fragment is a small part from the side of the axe, which is polished on the outer surface and rough on the inner. Both sides have a buff-cream coloured patination, as does one of the ends. The other end is a clean break exposing a greenish-blue core containing sporadic whitish grains <0.4mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-E1BA11
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked flint axe of Neolithic date (c. 3500 - c. 2100 BC). The implement has been extensively knapped into a sub-oval shape. One terminal is slightly pointed (W.: 26mm), the other is rounded (W.: 41.25mm). One surface is flatter than the other and this surface bears a central trace of the external cortex. The rounded butt end of the implement bears the finest working. The is damage to both of the edges which have possibly been used for hammering. The axe slightly tapers from the butt end; the axe is therefore wedge-shaped and oval in section. The other terminal is slightly pointed, …
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CPAT-DACCC4
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Published
Perforated object,fairly rounded stone with an off-centre, hourglass-shaped perforation. The hole has a diameter of approximately 13mm. It appears to be of sedimentary rock. Alternatively it could be a fishing net weight, thatch weight or a crude hammer. It could date from any time from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period. Artefact not seen by recorder.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Record ID: BH-D7ACF7
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of fired daub from a building of uncertain date. The piece is irregular in shape and is light greyish brown in colour. The inner surface has a vertical wattle impression, whilst the other side is uneven. The edges are abraded. The object measures 38.9mm high, 27.6mm wide and 25.7mm thick. The weight is 23.39g.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-CEF0C2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 prehistoric flint tempered body sherd, 7.55g 2 Roman greyware rims, 13.15g 4 Roman greyware bases, 42.2g 88 Roman or medieval very small abraded body sherds, 269.52g 7 Medieval coarseware rims, 75.45g 23 Mixed abraded medieval and post medieval red oxidised ware body sherds, 132.9g 4 rims of unglazed post medieval red earthernware, 68.2g 13 body sherds and 2 bases of glazed red earthernware, postmedieval, 108.76g and 28.81g respectively 3 body sherds of postmedieval stone ware, 11.5g, 1 Nottingham decorated stoneware sherd, postmedieval 12.05g 1 westerwad body sherd, 2.3…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cavendish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-CEA058
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 prehistoric flint tempered body sherd, 5g 6 Roman coarseware rims, 37.55g 17 medieval coarseware rims, 106.05g 9 medieval coarseware bases, 77.84 162 very small very abraded Roman to medieval body sherds, 640.3g. 9 medieval body sherds very gritty fabric, 20g. 1 medieval circa 13th-14th century handle fragment, 15g 4 body sherds medieval sandy coarseware, 45.95g 3 body sherds of medieval oxidised gritty ware, 33.5g glazed red earthernware 2 rims, 5 body sherds, 59.25g 1 bung hole from a post medieval cistern, 57.6g 1 post medieval body sherd, stone ware, 7.15g 1 glazed co…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cavendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-56BDB6
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken trapezoidal shaped flint that may be a damaged scraper or, possibly, a gun flint.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbrough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-AB0994
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Group of 24 flints. 1-3: Three very large flakes, one of levellois type with the beginnings of limey type patination, especially on the dorsal face. The second is a squat flake core made utilising the flake and the third is a large irregular flake which also has a limey buidup. The first could be late neolithic and the latter two post-medieval in date. 4: A squat flake, heavily patinated pale blue-grey, probably prehistoric in date. 5: Crude irregular and thick flake with squat flake scars. 6-13: Eight long flakes. Hard hammer struck and quite chuncky. One at lea…
Created on: Tuesday 6th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lynford', grid reference and parish protected.