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Record ID: SF-3198D9
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade of probable Neolthic to early Bronze Age date. There are multiple parallel flaking scars on the dorsal face. The butt is narrow and the bulb of percussion prominant suggesting that it was struck using a hard hammer. There is a small amount of crude, short, abrupt retouch along the left edge of the dorsal face with a slight notch in the centre.  Length: 51.2mm, width: 24.1mm, thickness: 7.0mm, weight: 9.62g
Created on: Thursday 15th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 15th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chillesford parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-2FDDCE
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint scraper, dating to 4000 - 2350 BC. The scraper has been made possibly from a secondary waste flake and an area of creamy white speckled with blue cortex is visible on a third of the dorsal surface. The flint has a is dark brown patination on some of the surface. Small areas of micro-retouch can be seen along the long curved distal edge of the dorsal face. The ventral face has one small area of retouch at the distal edge.  Length: 30.5 mm Width: 25.4 mm Thickness: 9 mm Weight: 9.1 g
Created on: Thursday 15th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2F3DB
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Impressively banded igneous stone “slipper” mace head, the stone is fine-grained with grey/green layers between whiteish layers, the perforations were never completed; pecked and/or bored from both faces but now left as opposing “cups” to each face c. 23 mm dia. and each 11 mm deep, there was only c. 7 mm of unperforated stone  before the two would meet up. The surface has a small amount of fine, granular loss but essentially it is in good condition. Possibly locally made from a glacial erratic water worn pebble chosen for the aesthetics of the stone…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F27DB7
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated, thin butted flaked axe: - of mottled dark grey and light grey flint with a slight orange patination to the surfaces, this orange is more pronounced to the sinuous coarse inclusion to the flatter of the two faces. All flake scars are soft hammer struck with feathered flake terminations, all confidently struck. The cutting edge is very slightly rounded, one side of which is recently damaged, another small loss to the mid-point to one edge above the missing cutting edge as well, and another loss to the opposing edge, just below the butt, these show the original colour of the …
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2572B
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large part-polished axe in excellent condition, of orange patinated flint with the coarse inclusions now a pale off-white colour, the very tip of the butt retains the original grey colour of the flint, one face has a couple of light iron scrapes from agricultural machinery. One lateral edge is lightly damaged recently, this interrupts the ground and minimally rounded edges of the axe, the cutting edge is almost a perfect semi-circle in plan and is ground and polished, not quite removing the flake scars from the surface, similar work to smooth off the high points to both faces has been…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2223C
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cornish greenstone axe with a degraded and weathered surface, this is usual for this type of stone, otherwise it is complete: -of petrological Group 1 or 1 a, (Group 1, Uralitized gabbro, epidiorite, or greenstone. Source in Mount’s Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall. Widely distributed and abundant. Keiller, Piggott, and Wallis, PPS, 7 (1941), 51. Group 1 a, Close to Group 1. Stone and Wallis, PPS, 17 (1951), 105). Specific for this axe: Stone Imp. Pet. N308. Late Neolithic, 3,000 to 2,350 BC. See records: NMS-F2F3DB NMS-F27DB7 NMS-F2572B NMS-C0A67B fo…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: IOW-9F7C54
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flake dating to c.4000-2400 BC. The scraper is made from a secondary flake of dark grey flint without any cortex remaining. It has a glossy patina. The flake is an irregular lozenge shape in cross section and sub-triangular in plan. The ventral surface has short, sub-parallel, low-angled retouch running along the left edge just below the striking platform. There is also further sub-parallel, low-angled retouch along the length of the left edge of the dorsal face.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-5BAB71
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint blade of Mesolithic date, 47mm in length and struck from a grey-brown flint. The blade has a thin triangular cross section. There is no retouch.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: SUR-5B5BEB
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thin flint blade of Mesolithic or Neolithic date, 56.8mm in length and struck from a grey-brown flint. The blade has a thin trapezoidal cross section. There is no retouch.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: SUR-5B3119
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A curved and heavily water worn flint blade, 53.5mm in length and of Mesolithic date, struck from a dark brown coloured flint. The blade has a triangular cross section and has broken at the distal end. There is no retouch or other working.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: SUR-5A9E51
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint blade, 55.7mm in length and of Mesolithic date, struck from a dark brown coloured flint. The blade has a triangular cross section and has broken at both ends. There is possibly low angle short scaled retouch along one side, but the heavily abraded condition makes this questionable.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: SUR-5A7141
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper made from a curved tertiary flake of dark brown flint. The convex distal end appears to have short, abrupt scaled(?) retouch but is heavily damaged.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: NLM-065AC8
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint, appearing honey-coloured under transmitted light, arrowhead, as kindly identified by the finder. A thin sub-triangular flake [formerly triangular, tip lost leaving a positive hinge fracture at its end] with covering angled scalar retouch across both its sides. Very fine serrations along one long side are more easily felt than observed; a more limited zone of very short abrupt retouch appears on the opposite long edge. Misty patina on part of both sides suggests the object has subsequently endured a period of exposure to a calcareous environment. This object bears compa…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-F37372
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic retouched flake, dating to c. 8000 - 4000 BC. Made from a secondary flake, the majority of the dorsal face retains an off white cortex. The flint is of brown/orange colour. Areas of retouch can be seen on some of the sides of the flint.  Length: 56.3 mm Width: 46.5 mm Weight: 48.41 g
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-76BEDA
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete sub-cordate handaxe of Wymer (1999) type G dating to the Lower/Early Middle Paleolithic period c 500,000-180,000 BC. The tool is sub-cordate in form and has a trimmed butt (butt type b) in Butler, (2005:59), figure. 20, and rounded point (point type i). It is lenticular in cross-section and broadly symmetrical but one face has a raised, domed area on one side near the base. The handaxe has one straight long edge (edge type e) and one twisted in a reverse 'S' (edge type f).  It has been bifacially worked with covering flak…
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2022
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Record ID: NLM-735ACA
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint scraper. Suggested date: Neolithic, 4000-2350 BC Length: 31.6mm, Width: 41.1mm, Thickness: 7mm, Weight: 10.20gms
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2022
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Record ID: OXON-60BFBB
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Mesolithic or Neolithic flint blade or flake: In section the blade is trapezoidal and in plan is sub-triangular. The dorsal surface has three main vertical scars. The ventral surface has ripples, bulb of percussion and bulbar scars. The proximal end is broken and missing, but this is not contemporary to the knapping as the mottled blue and white patina does not cover the break. The break reveals an opaque brown coloured flint. It measures 15.16mm long, 16.43mm wide, and weighs 1.6g. The flint is mottled pale blue/grey which is the patina. The blade dates to the l…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-4C99D6
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gritstone perforated stone implement fragment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 6000-4000 BC Length: 92.4mm, Width: 31.1mm, Thickness: 41.4mm
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-49E5BE
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Mesolithic flint blade core of dark grey flint, 37.8mm in length with a semi-circular cross section. There is a single remaining striking platform and removal scars around most of the circumference. A small patch of light brown cortex remains down one edge.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-49B4AC
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint blade struck from a secondary flake of dark brown to black flint, 79.5mm in length. A patch of brown cortex is retained on one side and there does not appear to be any secondary retouch.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.