Record ID: SF4142
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ovate handaxe, broken at one end in antiquity. Glossy red/brown stained flint with a large number of coarse-grained inclusions. An old but thinly patinated chip indicates that the flint is probably pale grey in colour. One face is flaked all over; the opposed face is more than 50% cortex, which is thick but weathered, of a buff colour with black speckled staining. Dimensions: 124 mm surviving length, 85 mm wide and 30 mm thick. Condition: lightly rolled. Wymer does not list any Palaeolithic material from the immediate area, but gives examples of handaxes from Belton Common and Hopton-…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERLEYTON ASHBY AND HERRINGFLEET', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF5209
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One pale brown stained flake, possibly Palaeolithic. (Note that some finds from this findspot may be from imported droveway gravel.)
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE LIVERMERE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7943
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary flint flake, deeply stained mid to dark brown. Snapped in antiquity so that the bulb is missing. The staining suggests a Palaeolithic date, probably Upper Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8932
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three largish secondary flakes with edge damage, perhaps recent. Stained deep brown, overlain with slight surface patination. Two have some cortex. Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8376
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large flint hand-axe, squat ovate form. Rolled and abraded condition. Stained deep mid and dark brown, with a recent chip from one edge revealing pale grey flint beneath. Lower (early) Palaeolithic, c. 500,000 BC to 40,000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HIGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7129
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large patinated flint flake, perhaps stained on the bulbar face. Snapped, with unpatinated break and some unpatinated possible retouch, although this may be damage due to agricultural equipment. Black flint with cortex. Length (incomplete) 40 mm; width 76 mm; thickness 20 mm.
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8258
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary flint flake, stained or patinated a deep medium/dark brown and cream over black flint. The patination suggests that it is very early, possibly Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.