Record ID: LVPL-300152
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint lithic implement dating from the Neolithic to Bronze Age period (c.4000-2000 BC). The object is made from a secondary flake and presents cortex on approximately one third of the dorsal face. The ventral face presents invasive removal of parallel flakes. No rtouch is evident. Dimensions: Length 49.2mm; width 43.3mm; weight 41.14g
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-930C0C
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic debitage possiby indicating blade production dating to, c. 4000-2400 BC. The object is worked from a tertiary flake of very chalky white flint with a developed matte patina containing occasional patches of orange iron staining. notably there are a few areas where a dark and light grey flint are visible possibly indicating damage to the object while in the ground. The flake is sub-rectangular in plan and trapazoidal in cross section. The striking platform survives as does a shallow sized bulb of percussion including eraillure scar from which sparse but …
Created on: Friday 14th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bisham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-6B7B59
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete worked flint pick of Neolithic date. The pick has been formed on a nodule of mottled grey/white flint with iron staining evident of the crests of the removals. The flint has been bifacially worked. The tip of the is worked and rounded. The butt is flat. The edges are generally straight and parallel, however, one edge is curved toward the butt end. The dorsal face is convextly curved. The ventral face is flat.
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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Record ID: BERK-D2630D
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete flint axe of Neolithic date (4500 BC – 2000 BC). The implement is a mottled buff/grey colour. It is a pointed oval shape in section. It is symmetrical in plan and is almost symmetrical when viewed from the bladed end. The cutting edge is fairly evenly curved. Both faces have been knapped but cortext survives on one side and around the edge. About half way along this edge is a raised section which has not been finished. Length: 147.6mm, Width: 62.1mm, Thickness: 33.7mm, Weight: 368.2g Length 161mm, width 61mm and 32mm thick. Weight 318g.
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-A5E42B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Light grey flint blade of probably Mesolithic - Neolithic date. Blade has a flat striking platfrom, small bulb of purcussion and clear ripple marks on the ventral and dorsal faces. Short abrupt retouch around c75% of the edge, semi-abrupt in one small area. Length: 40.7mm, Width: 20.1, Thickness: 7mm, Weight: 7.2g
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2022
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Record ID: SUR-C5E84D
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Neolithic flaked and polished flint axe, 96.1mm in length and dating to c.4000-2350 BC. The axehead is made from a light grey to light brown flint and has hard-hammer working across its surfaces. The side profile is lenticular and the axehead flares slightly to a rounded cutting edge. This edge has evidence of polishing. There appears to be damage to one face of the blade, which has lost a large flake with a hinge fracture; this may represent damage from use.
Created on: Thursday 24th September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: BERK-12C38A
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible flint scraper of uncertain date, possibly Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age (c.3300BC - 1000BC). The scraper is plano-convex in shape with cortex present on the majority of the dorsal face. The ventral face is unworked with short stepped semi-abrupt retouch on the edges. The scraper has a white opaque patina. The scraper is 41.5mm in length, 34.4mm in width, 11.1mm in thickness, and weighs 14.72g
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-12C1B5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible flint scraper of uncertain date, possibly Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age (c.3300BC - 1000BC). The scraper is irregularly shaped but with a long rounded edge. The scraper is plano-convex in shape. The ventral face is unworked with a large bulb of percussion. The dorsal face is worked with invasive scaled semi-abrupt retouch. The majority of the edge has short, scaled semi-abrupt retouch The flint is an opaque light white-grey with patches of cream white throughout. The scraper is 29.1mm in length, 37mm in width, 7.7mm in thickness, and weighs 9.03g.
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-F2594F
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Neolithic flint plano-convex knife dating to c.3300-2200 BC. The knife is opaque and grey-coloured, and sub-oval in shape. The distal end is the narrowest point and is slightly rounded. The dorsal face is flaked with short stepped semi-abrupt retouch on the surface. The edges have short stepped low angle retouch. The ventral face is smooth with the bulb of percussion at the proximal end. The knife is 36mm in length, 17.5mm in width, 7.4mm in thickness, and weighs 4.22g.
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: BERK-3ED711
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic scraper, probably Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age c. BC 3300 - 2000. The bulbar end exhibits a clear bulb of percussion with light radiating ripple marks extending partway down the partly incurvate ventral surface. The dorsal surface has a small section of the cortex in situ and the surface is heavily faceted with random flaking. The edge has bifacial fine and coarse retouch and probable further damage/fritting from its time in the ground. The material is a mottled grey/cream flint with small white inclusions with further iron oxide elements. The small black surface markin…
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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Record ID: BERK-EFF863
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic to early Bronze Age backed blade or knife c. 2500 - 2000 BC. Formed on a broadly triangular cross section tertiary flake, the material is a pale brown/grey chert with large inclusions of a pale cream material. The ventral face has a modest bulb of percussion, much remove by a large bulbar scar. The remainder of the ventral surface has the characteristic ripples running down the full length of the blade. The dorsal face has a pair of converging ridges that combine into a single ridge running to the distal end. The concave upper edge of the blade has abrupt retouch, …
Created on: Friday 5th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: OXON-536F7E
Object type: PICK
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete worked flint pick of Neolithic date. The pick has been formed on a nodule of mottled grey/white flint with iron staining evident of the crests of the removals. The flint has been bifacially worked and a removal across the butt does look tranchet-like but on closer inspection this has been ruled out. The tip of the pick is has a large ridge behind it with multi-directional removals on the side of the tip. Suggested date Neolithic 4000-2000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: BUC-C95145
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Neolithic serrated implement, dating to c. 4500-1500 BC. Flint, mottled white and grey surface with occasional orangy spots, near the platform edge is a darker grey. Sub triangular shaped. Pronounced bulb of percussion on the ventral face suggesting a hard hammer, defined ripple marks across the surface. Retouch creating a serrated edge on both sides, 5 teeth per cm. Length: 62.9mm, width: 30.9mm, thickness: 8.2mm, weight: 12.21g.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: BERK-BABC71
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint laurel leaf knife dating to the Neolithic period, c. 4000 - 2200 BC. The knife is leaf shaped and oval in cross-section. It is bifacially worked with covering, scaled and low angle retouch. One edge has prominent scaled retouch. The other edge is highly worn. The flint has a grained greyish colour with patinated white surface. There are also sporadic dark brown specs on both sides. The knife is 93.1mm in length, 34.5mm in width, 8.1mm in thickness, and weighs 30.52g.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-1994EC
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Neolithic flint Plano-convex oblique arrowhead, probably dating to c. 2700 - 2400 BC. Worked from a tertiary flake of opaque white/cream flint. The arrowhead is broadly triangular in plan with straight edges and a concave basal edge that has been thinned to accommodate hafting of the item. There is clear edge retouch to the dorsal side with some evidence of further modest retouch to the ventral surface, although damage due to erosion in situ is also a likely cause. The arrowhead has a pale cream/grey appearance with numerous natural inclusions.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-AFF4A3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of six later prehistoric flakes, probably dating from c. 7000 - 1400 BC (Mesolithic to Middle Bronze Age). The flakes have all been made on a mottled grey flint with some showing calcification of the stone. Most of the flints have under 5% cortex remaining. None are retouched. These flakes form part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: BERK-AFD88C
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two possible core rejuvenation flakes of later prehistoric date, probably dating from c. 4000 - 1400 BC (Neolithic / Bronze Age). The flakes have suffered much modern damage (possibly from agricultural activity or gravel extraction). The larger flake is made from a orangey-brown flint (suggesting a valley source?) while the other is a mottled, mostly white flint (probably grey internally, some recalcification may have taken place), possibly from an upland source. Both flakes retain their platforms and the bulb of percussion. There si no retouch. These flakes forms part of an a…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BERK-AFC08D
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later prehistoric flake, probably dating from c. 4000 - 2200 BC (Neolithic period). The form of the flake is similar to later Neolithic fabricators however the retouch is quite fresh and cuts through the surface patina on both dorsal and ventral surfaces (Alison Roberts Ashmolean Museum, pers. comm). This suggests a more modern date for the retouch. The flake has been made on a mottled mid grey flint with approximately 25% cortext remaining on the dorsal surface. This flake forms part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: BERK-AFA92C
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of six later prehistoric flakes, probably dating from c. 7000 - 1400 BC (Mesolithic to Middle Bronze Age). The flakes are all water worn and all but two have areas of cortex remaining (between 10-50%). The flakes have all been made on a mottled mid grey flint. There is no retouch and most of the flakes display modern (water-rolled?) damage. These flakes form part of an assemblage of flint artefacts of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: BERK-AF97F2
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later prehistoric retouched flake, dating from c. 7000 - 1400 BC (Mesolithic to Middle Bronze Age). The flake has been made on a mottled mid grey flint with only a small area (
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th January 2021
No spatial data available.