Record ID: CORN-DE8FCA
Object type: CLEAVER
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint bifacial cleaver made on a Levallois flake with a U-shaped (Wymer Type H) form in plan, and a lozenge-shaped profile with a straight edge (Wymer Type e), dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period. The cleaver has a straight transverse cutting edge at the distal end opposite to the curved butt end (Wymer Type b) at the proximal end which has partly been removed by an invasive flake, perhaps to remove the natural fault in the flint which remains as a patch of white cortex. The cleaver edge has been formed by the removal of tranchet flakes from the right lateral edge of the ventra…
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BB377
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two single-platform flint microcores, left with the scars of flake removals to produce microliths, dating from the Mesolithic period. One is 28.5 mm in length and 25.5 mm in width. The second is squatter than the first, 18 mm in length and 35 mm in width and retains a large patch of coarse cortex indicating that it was derived from a local beach pebble. The cores are coated with a creamy-white surface patina from exposure to hear and sunlight but would have originally been a darker grey in colour. Butler (2005) illustrates a group of Mesolithic, single-platform bladelet cores fr…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 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-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-AFF7B6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert blade and straight end scraper, trapezoidal in plan, rhomboidal in profile and triangular in section, dating from the Palaeolithic period, c.400,000-40,000 BP. The blade is 92 mm in length, 42.5 mm in width at the distal end tapering to 23 mm at the proximal end, 14.9 mm in thickness and 47.5 g in weight. There is the remnant of a pre-prepared striking platform at the proximal end with a distinct point and bulb of percussion at the edge of the ventral face; the force of the blow has resulted in a gently sinuous curve to the ventral face. The dorsal face bears the scars removal…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-AFF1E5
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade, tear-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, dating from the Mesolithic period (c.9000-4000 BC). The blade is 34.5 mm in length, 17 mm in width, 4.5 mm in thickness and weighs 3.5 g. A tertiary flake, with no cortex remaining with a pale cream surface patina, derived from a local beach pebble. The dorsal face bears the scars form the removal of four earlier flakes or blades. The proximal end has been slightly damaged, obscuring the point of percussion but the bulb of percussion is visible on the ventral face. There is a small break at the distal end wh…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-AFE174
Object type: AWL
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint piercer or awl, lozenge-shaped in plan, profile and section, dating from the Later Mesolithic period (c.6500-4000 BC). The piercer is 23.5 mm in length, 7.35 mm in width, 1 mm in thickness and 0.35 g in weight. It is produced from a tertiary micro-flake of mottled light to dark grey flint derived from a local beach pebble. The dorsal face bears the scars of removal of two earlier flakes whilst the conchoidal fractures from the original flaking process are still visible on the ventral face, but the bulb of percussion has been removed. The piercer has then been abruptly retouche…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-5C42EA
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic unifacial flint handaxe dating from the Acheulean period (400,000 to 160,000 years BP). The handaxe is pointed in plan and plano-convex in profile and in section (Wymer type F); it is 128.5 mm in length, 77.5 mm in width, 43.5 mm in thickness and 332.15 g in weight. The handaxe was made on a flake removed from a large beach cobble. The point of percussion is visible at the proximal butt end. The ventral face has been trimmed flat by the removal of several shallow flakes from the right margin. There is an oval inclusion, as part of a fault, of coarse cortical mater…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Sunday 24th November 2019
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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-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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Record ID: CORN-0950AA
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fabricator of the late Neolithic period or Early Bronze Age. The fabricator is an elongated trapezium in plan and in profile and a shorter trapezoid in section; it is 59 mm in length, 21 mm in width, 8 mm in thickness and 11.6 g in weight. The fabricator is made on a long, secondary flake of fine-grained black flint, with only a very small area of sandy-coloured cortex remaining on the dorsal face, at the distal end. There is some mottling of a lighter grey colour on the ventral face towards the proximal end suggesting that the flint was derived from a local beach pebble. On the lon…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-094C06
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic flint micro-core. The core is 48 mm long, 41 mm in width, 34.5 mm in thickness and 86.35 g in weight. A spherical flint beach pebble of fine-grained black flint, perhaps from Beer Head in Devon, with a thin sandy-brown cortex has been shaped in several distinct patches by the removal of multiple very small, shallow flakes from various directions. The resulting core has four flattened faces with the unaltered rounded surfaces at opposite ends. At one end, and on one side surrounding the largest of the flaked areas, the cortex is pitted with many small points of percussion …
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-F26711
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Beaker period (c.2500-1500 BC). The arrowhead is triangular in plan: 27 mm in length, 23.5 mm in width at the base, 4 mm thick and weighs 2.4 g. The pointed tip is missing. Both faces have been thinned by the removal of many small, shallow, invasive pressure-flakes. Two notches have been formed by pressure flaking at the base of the triangle, to form the tang and two barbs, and the two notches carefully shaped by further pressure flaking. The two barbs have obliquely shaped ends and the tang is square, placing the arrowhead …
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2018
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