Record ID: SF8848
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete but very small flaked flint axehead, with slight polishing. The sides are convex, the butt is rounded and the cross-section is lenticular. The polishing is restricted to the higher areas of each face (very restricted on one face) and the edge of one side only - none is present on the oppsite side or the curved cutting edge at the wider end. The lack of polish on the cutting edge and one side, together with the small size, suggest that the axe may have been cut down from a larger axe, though as the existing polish is close to the unpolished edges there should only have been …
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUSHBROOKE WITH ROUGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7262
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bifacially worked flint axehead with blade end missing. Gravel flint, mainly black but mottled with a little grey and white, particularly on one face. It is difficult to tell whether this is the nature of the flint, or whether it is due to partial patination. Small gravelly inclusion at butt. Some flakes have been removed from the break, which may be the result of re-use or of more recent damage. The asymmetric cross-section, with one face gently convex and the other more markedly peaked, together with surviving transverse flake removal near the blade end, suggest a tranchet axe o…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOWUPLAND', grid reference and parish protected.