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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