Record ID: CORN-765634
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete weathered and altered gabbro axehead with what appears to be hornblende vein inclusions. The butt end of the axehead is formed and has survived and the blade end has been damaged through use and resharpened. The axe is also slightly waisted along its length showing wear from being bound to a wooden haft. Since deposition the axehead has been struck by the plough which has left several gashes to the surface on the ventral face, while the dorsal face remains unfinished and retains the original surface of the cobble that it was derived from. The face sh…
Created on: Thursday 9th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-888714
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete coarse-grained gabbroic greenstone axehead which is a typical torpedo shape that is formed of the local Group I type rock (Mik Markham pers comm). The surface of the axehead is pitted where the gabbro has weathered and rotted out of the axehead from lying in groundwater since deposition. The axehead has been utilised and then disposed of. A flake (39 x 25 mm) has come off the ventral face of the blade end during use but the butt end is missing a section (26 x 12 mm) from the dorsal face which has been struck and has broken off since deposition. The face shape has taperi…
Created on: Sunday 28th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-B4E0E4
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone macehead or pebble hammer, oval in plan and in profile and section with a central perforation that is circular in plan and an hour-glass shape in profile. The macehead is made of white quartzite and was probably derived from a local beach cobble nearby. The implement was worked from the cobble, pecked and ground into shape, as it still retains evidence, in the form of little indentations on the surface, of the pecking process used in shaping. The central hole was then bored by using sand and a drill and the 'hour-glass' shape in profile suggests that the macehead was drilled fro…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-7E719F
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint knife, sub-rectangular in plan, rhomboidal in profile and triangular in section, dating from the Neolithic to the Beaker period. Made on a tertiary flake of fine-textured flint with no cortex remaining. A small area of the striking platform remains a the proximal end together with a distinct bulb of percussion and bulbar scar on the ventral face. Faint conchoidal ripples are visible along the full length of the ventral face, terminating in a hinge fracture at the distal end. The dorsal face bears the scars of the removal of three earlier longitudinal flakes and the proximal en…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-256904
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished dark green doleritic axehead, sub-triangular in plan with a pointed butt end and a straight cutting edge, and lentoid in profile and ovate in section. The axehead measures 161 mm in length, 62 mm in width at the cutting edge, and 39 mm in thickness, and weighs 527.7 g. The implement has a marked posterior taper and is polished over the entire surface although the surface is pitted. A chip is missing off the butt end and some shallow chips to the body on both faces. Half way down the right margin of the ventral face there is the filled in rectangular section that has been ta…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2DEBE5
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c.2500-1500 BC). An equilateral triangular in plan, lenticular in profile and in section: length 21.2 mm, barb width 21 mm, thickness 4 mm and weight 1.35 g. The flint is fine textured and dark brown in colour. The arrowhead is made on a tertiary flake, with no cortex remaining. The lateral margins have been retouched by the removal of many small pressure flakes on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces, producing the sharp edges of the arrowhead. The proximal end has been altered by the removal …
Created on: Monday 18th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2DE44A
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two conjoining fragments forming a complete Neolithic flint serrated flake. The flake is trapezoid in plan, plano-convex in profile and triangular in section at the break; its overall length is 75 mm, width 24.5 mm at the distal end tapering to 9.5 mm at the proximal end, maximum thickness 5.5 mm and total weight 9.75 g. The flint is light grey in colour, mottled and striated with darker grey inclusions, which suggests the flake was derived from a local beach pebble. There is also a sandy coloured patch of cortex on the dorsal face at the proximal end. The flake has been snapped 25 mm…
Created on: Monday 18th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-DA5E2B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint notched blade dating from the earlier Neolithic period (c.4000-3300 BC). The blade is 83 mm in length, 29 mm in width, 7.6 mm in thickness and weighs 19.35 g. A tertiary flake, with no cortex remaining, a remnant of the striking platform and the point of percussion are clearly visible at the proximal end. The ventral face displays a prominent bulb of percussion with associated bulbar scar and with the shallow conchoidal ripples continuing to the distal end, resulting in a flat face. The dorsal face bears the parallel scars of removal of at least three earlier blades from the o…
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-381806
Object type: DISC
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incised slate disc made from a piece of micaceous silty slate, possibly with volcanic ash content, from the Gramscatho formation, and the brown staining is the result of a ferruginous deposit penetrating along the cleavage of the rock (Roger Taylor in S.Taylor (ed.) Down the Bright Stream: the Prehistory of Woodcock Corner and the Tregurra Valley, forthcoming). The upper face is decorated with incised lines to produce a chequerboard pattern in which alternate squares have been either left blank or filled with a cross-hatched grid of varying number of smaller squares. Several flint …
Created on: Thursday 19th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 26th September 2019
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Record ID: CORN-3FFD97
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete greenstone axehead with the blade half of the axehead surviving and the butt end missing, dating from the Neolithic period. The blade is 63 mm in length, 68 mm in width, 25 mm in thickness and weighs 173 g. The axe has straight, parallel sides (type FS04) and a cutting edge which is gently curved and slightly asymmetrical (type ES03) in plan and the broken end is a narrow oval in cross section (type CS09). Its profile is symmetrical and medium in thickness (type P02). The blade section is also of a symmetrical type (BS10). The butt end of the axe is missing, together with at…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-3189E7
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint leaf-shaped arrowhead dating from the earlier Neolithic period. Made on a tertiary flake of pale grey flint, flecked with one large and many very small cream-coloured inclusions, probably derived from a local beach pebble. The remnant of the striking platform is visible at the proximal end, where it would have been hafted to the arrow shaft, with a very slight bulb of percussion barely visible on the ventral face. The margins of the ventral face have been retouched, abruptly at the lateral edges but more invasively at both ends. The retouch on the dorsal face is generally inva…
Created on: Thursday 31st January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: CORN-095EBE
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a Neolithic greenstone axe. The face of the axe has straight parallel sides (TIP classification FS04) and a symmetrical, gently curving, convex cutting edge (ES02) with a symmetrical blade section BS10). It is symmetrical in profile (P02) and oval in cross section (CS05). The butt of the axe is missing and it is difficult to accurately assess the original length of the axe which must, however, have been at lest twice its present length. The surfaces are worn and slightly pitted through weathering but it is clear that the axe was carefully ground to its present shape. T…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-08FD17
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two greenstone spheroidal hammerstones of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. One is more spheroidal, varying between 53.5 mm and 60 mm in diameter; the surface is fairly smooth and naturally weathered, and its overall shape not been modified. There are several patches of damage on the surface, possibly the result of having been used as a hammerstone, as well several more recent areas of damage, probably caused by the plough. The second ball is more ovate, varying between 55 mm and 65 mm in diameter, but has been ground flat on one side, reducing its height on that axis to 53 mm. Its convex…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-08ED3E
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic axehead polisher or polissoir. A utilised quartzite beach cobble probably originating from the Plymouth area and possibly moved to St Buryan by the sea (Roger Taylor pers comm). The polissoir is made on an asymmetrical beach cobble which is ovate in plan, sub-rectangular in section and ovate in profile: 212 mm in length, 414.6 mm in width, 80 mm in thickness or height and 3000 g in weight. One end of the cobble has been flattened by the removal of flake from one end; the opposite, slightly pointed end, has been damaged by use as a percussive tool. The oval areas at the cen…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C707C
Object type: POINT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint flake, likely an unfinished projectile point. The flake is lenticular in plan, profile and section; it is 39.5 mm in length, 26.5 mm in width, 9 mm in thickness and 8.65 g in weight. The flake is a secondary flake of grey flint with pale grey inclusions, derived from a local beach pebble. There is a patch of grey cortex at the right margin of dorsal face and 13 mm along one edge from this patch is the point of percussion, at the proximal end, with the adjacent bulb of percussion visible on the ventral face. The poor quality of the flint has resulted in irregular fracturing to …
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C6A9D
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint end scraper of the Bronze Age. The scraper is oval in plan, crescentic in profile, and plano-convex in cross-section; it is 37 mm in length, 33 mm in width, 14 mm in thickness and 16.36 g in weight. Made on a tertiary flake of fine-textured dark grey flint with pale grey inclusions, derived from a local beach pebble. The smooth ventral face is concave with slight traces of conchoidal rippling; the striking platform and bulb of percussion are missing. The dorsal face is scarred by the removal of several earlier flakes; the proximal end has been crushed and damaged by multiple p…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0C6342
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint end-scraper dating from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The scraper is U-shaped in plan, S-shaped in profile and plano-convex in cross-section; it is 76 mm in length, 52 mm in width, 18 mm thick and 73.25 g in weight. Made on a secondary flake of local beach grey-brown flint, mottled with small light grey inclusions, with two small patches of creamy-grey cortex remaining at the distal end. On the dorsal face are two large scars, from the removal of earlier flakes, which end abruptly 20 mm from the distal end where the angle of the surface of the original core cur…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 27th January 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0A497D
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Neolithic petit tranchet arrowhead. The arrowhead is trapezoidal in plan and section and lenticular in profile and 24.5 mm in length, 21.5 mm in width, 5 mm in thickness and 2.9 g in weight. The arrowhead is made on the middle section of a blade from which both the proximal and distal ends have been snapped off. The conchoidal ripples on the ventral face of the original flake are visible, running at right angles to the main axis of the finished arrowhead. The broken distal and proximal ends of the dorsal face have been blunted with abrupt retouch. The pronounced medial ridge o…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-0A2B65
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three semi-circular scrapers dating from the later Neolithic period or Early Bronze Age. All are sub-oval in plan and plano-convex in profile with diameters varying between 26 mm and 22 mm, and thickness between 6.5 mm and 8 mm; their individual weights are 6.3 g, 6 g and 4 g. The flint is a mottled grey-brown colour derived from local beach pebbles: one is a primary flake, with one face almost completely covered by cortex, one is a secondary flake with a very small patch pf cortex remaining at the distal end and the third is a tertiary flake with no cortex remaining. The bulb of perc…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-095656
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Neolithic or Early Bronze Age flint end and side scraper. The scraper is sub-oval on plan and plano-convex in both profile and section it is 41.5 mm in length, 24 mm in width, 11.5 mm thick and 12.15 g in weight. The scraper is made on a secondary flake of partly translucent grey-brown flint which contains a large pale brown chert-like inclusion and probably derives from a local beach pebble; a patch pf sand-coloured cortex remains on its dorsal face. The bulb of percussion and large bulbar scar are clearly visible at the proximal end of the ventral face. On the dorsal side th…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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