Record ID: CORN-682321
Object type: AWL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint awl, lentoid in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and triangular in section, with a pointed distal end and a snapped proximal end at the bulb of percussion. The bulb that remains has had a flake taken off of it on the ventral face, presumably to improve hafting. The awl has been unifacially retouched on the left margin of the dorsal face and bifacially retouched on the right margin, where there is some working on the ventral face, about a third of the way up from the proximal end, to create a slight notch. So it may have been used as a blade as well as an awl for perforation. T…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Record ID: CORN-17FB73
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint axehead, oval in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axehead is straight-sided and tapers towards the butt end which has a rounded terminal, where the axehead would have been hafted. Flakes have been taken off on both the dorsal and the ventral faces at the distal end to create the blade, which has then also been polished, but the rest of the axe has been left with its flake scars. There are darkened areas on both faces, where the axehead is polished, which probably represent use-wear, but the recorder was not able to look at the specimen under a microscope to co…
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
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Record ID: CORN-C2A644
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery sherd with fine incised pairs of parallel oblique lines within vertical linear borders, also consisting of two parallel lines. The pairs of oblique lines, which are at about a 45 degree angle, are divided by a central pair of vertical lines, so that they appear as a chevron or herringbone pattern when looked at as a whole. The sherd is made of gabbroic clay that weathers over the gabbro outcrop on the Lizard in Cornwall. The fabric has inclusions of pale felspars, dark augite and mica, and is orangey-brown on the exterior and dark brown on the interior of the sherd, with some …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: CORN-C1AA06
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Stone ball or hammerstone, sub-circular in plan, ovate in profile and rhomboidal in section. The upper and lower or base surfaces have both been ground and the upper face has also been pecked, suggesting use as a hammerstone and possibly a pestle. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all fresh and unweathered, appropriate for selection from a beach during the Neolithic. The beach selection would ensure hard enduring pieces. It is quite possible that the wear on these objects…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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Record ID: CORN-C0EC45
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stone adze, tear-drop shaped in plan and section and triangular in profile, with angled sides that taper towards the butt end and widen towards the blade end. About half of the original tool survives, the sightly flanged blade end, while the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about three times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle. In profile the blade is plano-convex suggesting that the tool was used as an adze for carving and smoothing …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
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Record ID: CORN-6BD4D6
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint thumbnail scraper, oval in plan, and plano-convex in profile and section. The scraper has been unifacially retouched at the distal end and the lateral margins of the dorsal face. The proximal end has been snapped off above the bulb of percussion, and there are two flakes that have been removed more recently at right angles to each other on the ventral face, probably as a result of plough damage. A layer of cortex remains from the proximal end to the worked edge on the dorsal face, which suggests that this was a secondary flake. The flint is a translucent dark grey to brown and…
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2013
Last updated: Saturday 30th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-E1A492
Object type: ADZE HAMMER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stone shafthole adze or cushion macehead (hammer), ovate in plan, tapering slightly towards each end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. One edge is angled more towards the upper, darker face, which suggests that this edge could have been used as an adze for woodworking. The opposite face is lighter having been stained with lichen from its findspot since deposition. The shafthole implement was probably originally derived from a beach cobble with little resh…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-DCF786
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axehead butt end, triangular in plan and profile and ovate in section, tapering to a rounded point at one end and broken in the middle so that it is missing the blade end of the axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape from a cobble, rather than weathered, and there are traces of pecking, but no deliberate polishing. The colour of the axe is a green-grey with dark green areas on both faces where the axe has been polished, perhaps through use from the haft or wooden handle where it was held, but also from wear since it has been in the ground. The rock type has…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Record ID: CORN-003B24
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, kite-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The dorsal and ventral faces are both invasively retouched throughout, symmetrically from the margins to the midline, though the scars are larger on the ventral face. There is a slight nick in the proximal end of the arrowhead, and this point is slightly off-set, suggesting that this would have been the end that was hafted to the arrow shaft. This damage may have been caused during use, when the arrowhead was forced off the shaft in the past. The flint is a mottled grey-brown in colour, which…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-D3E943
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint polished axehead, ovate in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The axehead has a rounded butt end, which would have been hafted on to the axe handle, and straight sides which expand slightly towards a semi-circular, fine, sharp blade at the distal end. The axehead has been flaked and then polished and there are still remnant flake scars which have not been polished away at the butt end and on both margins of both faces of the axehead. There are a few flakes and nicks that look more fresh on both faces and some edges, which may be due to more recent damage, and some i…
Created on: Wednesday 9th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-BFA387
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, leaf-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The arrow has a rounded proximal end, which would have been hafted on to the arrow shaft, ogival sides and tapers to a fine point at the distal end. There is invasive retouch across the entire surface of the dorsal and ventral faces, and on all margins and at the distal and proximal ends. The colour of the flint is a pale cream, but this may have altered from its original darker colour, due to exposure to heat, sun and frost, which suggests that it was probably derived from a local beach pebble…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-B18A61
Object type: SAW
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint saw, P-shaped in plan, rectangular in profile and triangular in section. There is retouch on the left margin of the dorsal face, creating the serrated edge used for sawing, and the right margin is backed for handling. The proximal end is smooth and there is a layer of cortex remaining on the distal end, suggesting that this is a primary flake. The colour of the flint is a mottled grey-brown colour which suggests that it has probably been derived from a local beach pebble. The orangey discolouration around the proximal end and on the cortex is organic staining from peat. Bond (…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2013
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Record ID: CORN-B0D1C3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint oblique arrowhead, triangular in plan with a hollow base, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The base with its slight barbs on either side would have been hafted on to the arrow shaft. There is invasive retouch on both the dorsal and ventral faces, and on all margins and at the distal and proximal ends. The colour of the flint is a slightly translucent mottled orange-brown colour which suggests that it was probably derived from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:2 which is common for this type of oblique arrowhead. Bond (2004) illustrates a s…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Record ID: CORN-AFB9F2
Object type: TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Chert chisel or transverse arrowhead, T-shaped in plan and triangular in profile and section. There is invasive retouch on both margins of the dorsal face, on either side of the tang, and retouch on the left margin of the ventral face around the barb. The colour of the chert is a dark matt grey which suggests that it might be derived from Portland chert from Dorset. The orange discolouration on the distal end is the result of organic staining from peat. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1 which is common for this type of arrowhead as it was made from a square blank. Bond (2004)…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-A4BBA4
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gabbroic greenstone cushion macehead or shafthole adze, ovate in plan, tapering slightly towards the butt end, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. Both ends would have been worked to form an edge which could have been used for chopping as well as hammering. The macehead probably originally from a beach cobble with little reshaping with a coarse surface texture mainly from weathering (Roger Taylor pers comm). It would have then been pecked and ground into shape and the central hole bored by using sand and a drill. The shaft hole is circular in plan and an 'hour-glass'…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-197CE6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isles of Scilly
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group of fifty flint implements, thirteen of which are photographed here as the best worked pieces, including a leaf-shaped arrowhead, two gravers, three blades, three notched flakes and four scrapers, all dating from the Neolithic period c.4500-2100 BC. The majority of the group, eighteen, are waterworn waste pieces, or debitage, and there are thirteen worked waterworn flakes and six worked pieces apart from those illustrated here. The flint is mottled light to dark grey in colour with cortex remaining on some pieces, which is typical of the local beach flint found in the area.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-E0A032
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint semi-circular scraper, oval in plan and plano-convex in profile, with most of the original cortex remaining on the dorsal face. The cortex has only been removed around half the edge of the dorsal face, following the angle of the flake, in order to retouch the margin to create the scraper edge. The ventral face has some natural fracturing around the edge of the cortex, especially at the proximal end, but the majority of the surface is smooth. The flint is a mottled light brown to grey which suggests that it has been derived from the local beach flint and appears to be the end of …
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-42E086
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Flint axehead of mottled grey-brown flint which suggests that it may have been derived from the local pebble beach flint. The axehead is straight-sided and tapers towards the butt end which has a pointed bifid terminal on either side of the notched proximal end, where the axehead would have been hafted. The flake that he been taken off on both the dorsal and the ventral faces at the distal end to create the blade end, which has then also been polished, but the rest of the axe has been left with its flake scars. Both margins have been retouched, but the left margin of the dorsal face a…
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Record ID: CORN-586162
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete axehead roughout made from a gabbroic greenstone cobble that is finer grained and more doleritic than other examples from this area. The interrelationship between the weathering, fracture and possible grinding of the cobble are very complex. The butt end is rounded and damaged, and the blade end has completely worn away so that the roughout is now waisted and narrower at the blade end, where it tapers to a point in profile. Half of the ventral face is also missing, where a section has sheared off and left a stepped projection towards the butt end of the roughout. Several fla…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-581964
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken blade end of an axehead roughout of coarse gabbroic greenstone, U-shaped in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and oval in section. There is a defined yet damaged cutting edge at the blade end, and the entire surface is deeply pitted and weathered. The roughout is broken in half so that the butt end is missing. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or Trungle Moor in Paul parish. A few of these have distinct areas where grinding has been carried out to start a blade. The remainder have a broadly axe-shaped…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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