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Record ID: CORN-726A73
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone axehead. Although the end of the blade is missing the face of the axehead appears to be a narrow symmetrical ovate (FS02) with a thin asymmetrical profile (classification P04) and a narrow oval section (classification CS09). The butt end has been damaged by the removal, possibly deliberate, of at least one linear flake at the end but is rounded in plan and appears also to be rounded in profile (classification B11). The axe was broken in antiquity so that perhaps half of its original length, including the cutting edge, is missing. The axe was the…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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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-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-71FA0B
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. About a sixth of the original tool survives, the blade end, while the rest of the blade and the longer but tapering butt end that would have been hafted is missing. The adze may have originally been about six times as long, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle.The face of the implement appears to be oval in shape (TIP classification FS02) where it expands beyond the blade edge but would have then tapered towards the butt end, although its fragmentary nature makes it difficult t…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-71E176
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. The fragment represents less than half of the adze with the original length up to three times longer, judging from similar ethnographic parallels, in order to balance it with the wooden haft or handle attached to the opposite butt end.The adze appears to have straight parallel sides but it would have tapered towards the butt end (TIP classification FS07), an asymmetrical (plano-convex) profile of medium thickness (classification P05) and plano-convex in cross-section (classification CS16) with a curved, asymmetrical edge shape (ES05) and …
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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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-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-E94802
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The butt end of a broken Neolithic stone adze. The fragment is 90 mm in length, 62.5 mm in width at its broken edge, tapering to 24 mm close to the butt end, 34.5 mm in thickness and 270.9 g in weight which represents approximately half the length of the original implement. The adze is sub-triangular in plan (TIP classification FS09), asymmetrical (isosceles right triangle) in profile (classification P04) and plano-convex in cross-section (classification CS16). The butt shape is rounded in plan and profile (classification BU11). The asymmetrical profile and plano-convex section suggest…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-4F4B17
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Weathered cobble of greenstone, oval in plan and ovoid in profile and section. There is rough working over the whole of the surface of the flat oval shape which may have once been an axehead roughout, and has since been broken and weathered. One end tapers more to a rounded point, but there is no clear blade or butt end. The ventral face is more flat, mainly through weathering, while the dorsal face is more pecked. 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 distin…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-56FD36
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gabbroic greenstone cobble, triangular in plan and in profile and ovoid in section. The piece is broken at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, and there is a large spur projecting from the broken end at one edge, which may be harder material to grind down flat, or perhaps why the axe broke at this point. This is one of a group of 14 stone tools described as 'potential axes' that have been found on Clodgy Moor or …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd 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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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-5748D6
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gabbroic greenstone cobble, triangular in plan and in profile and circular in section. The piece is broken at one end and tapers to a point at the other, to form a conical shape, similar to the pointed butt end of an axe. The surface appears to have been ground into this shape, rather than weathered, and there is a rectangular flake that has been removed from the broken end at one edge, which may be more recent damage. 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 t…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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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-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-C135B0
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A greensand chert blade, made on a broad, tertiary flake with no cortex remaining, sub-rectangular in plan, plano-convex in profile and triangular in section. The proximal end has been thinned by the removal of a small flake from the dorsal face resulting in the loss of the striking platform. A small bulb of percussion is visible on the ventral face which is otherwise slightly concave. The scars of removal of two earlier longitudinal flakes are visible on the dorsal face, resulting in the triangular section of the flake. The right and left margins of the dorsal face have been retouch…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Saturday 25th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C11667
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint double-ended scraper, oval in plan and steeply domed, being plano-convex in profile and in section. Made on a secondary flake with a large patch of cortex remaining on about three-quarters of the dorsal face. The proximal end of the dorsal face has been trimmed by the removal of four almost vertical flakes which have also removed the striking platform, as well as the bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The resulting edge is slightly damaged, possibly by use as a scraper. At the distal end about six or seven almost vertical flakes have also been removed, followed by a serie…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Saturday 25th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C0ECA9
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six broken or snapped flint blades. With one exception, where a small patch of cortex remains, all are tertiary removals with no cortex remaining. Three are distal fragments and three are medial fragments, all with evidence of conchoidal rippling on their ventral faces. The surface colour of the fragments varies from pale grey to a mottled grey-brown. There is no evidence of reworking or use-wear. The blades can be regarded as waste material from several flint-knapping episodes at different periods in prehistory, although the production of blades of this size is more common in the Neo…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C0B6C1
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six broken flint flakes, several of which have been snapped off larger flakes and then discarded. One is a primary flake with cortex remaining on the entire dorsal face, two flakes have small patches of cortex remaining at the distal end and two are tertiary flakes with no cortex remaining. One flake retains its striking platform together with a prominent bulb of percussion, three are distal fragments with slight hinge fractures remaining and the last two are medial fragments with evidence of conchoidal rippling on their ventral faces. The surface colour of the smallest, fragmentary, …
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-C0A1B5
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven complete flint flakes. Two are primary flakes, with cortex remaining on the whole of the dorsal face, two are secondary flakes with small patches of cortex and three are tertiary fakes with no cortex remaining. The flint is therefore derived from local beach pebbles. The flakes vary in shape from relatively long and wide to short and squat. None of the flakes show any signs of reworking or use-wear so they can be regarded as waste material from various flint-knapping episodes. The surface patination of the flint varies from almost white, through pale grey-brown to unpatinated da…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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