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Record ID: NMS-D538FC
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Semi-hard hammer struck, sub-triangular sectioned tertiary small blade, of glossy black flint, both lateral edges are irregularly damaged. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D4898A
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, tertiary hard hammer struck flake, of unpatinated mottled grey flint, no obvious retouch. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-518A8F
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary, hard hammer struck flake with semi-steep retouch to the dorsal face of the distal end to form an elongated (possibly hafted?) end scraper, of unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint, both lateral edges are unretouched and left sharp near to the platform. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D432F7
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
“Tally stone”, marked on a water worn pebble of mid-grey slightly banded, fine grained siltstone, in good sunlight, very, very fine specks of mica are visible within the stone. The twenty tallies are cut in to the lateral edge on the straighter of the two sides, they are a V cut with either a file (or similar) or cut with a sharp blade, the edges of which have rounded off slightly over the years and they appear to be a non-recent addition to the surface of the stone. The uppermost incision is 2.31 mm apart (measured from the deepest part of the cut to the next dee…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75B843
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary, hard hammer struck flake, of brown patinated mottled flint, possible use wear or edge damage to the straighter lateral edge. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 13th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-75918C
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, semi-hard hammer struck long flake, from a water worn pebble of flint with worn and battered cortex to one side of the dorsal face, the dark grey flint is now slightly patinated brown, both lateral edges are recently damaged with the removals lacking patination. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 13th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CF8172
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flaked axe, of mottled flint now impressively patinated orange, brown and black from exposure to iron oxides from deposition in sands and gravels, all flake scars appear to be relatively hard hammer struck with large negative bulbs of percussion visable to some of the flake removals. The cutting edge appears to be damaged in antiquity with the steep angles produced from this being similarly patinated to the rest of the axe. Broadly Neolithic, 4,000 to 2350 BC.
Created on: Monday 1st March 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-970A76
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, sub-trapezoidal sectioned, hard hammer struck flake, in fresh condition but patinated brown with iron oxide concretions to the ventral face. The distal end and right lateral side (when viewed with from the dorsal face with the platform uppermost) is formed by original thermal (frost) fractures from the core. The left lateral edge is a hinged flake scar, the central face on this side appears to be a bi-polar flake scar, possibly produced by the anvil technique?  The slightly hooked distal edge (edge angle circa. 75 degrees) has fine use wear along its length with tiny fl…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9679B9
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, hard hammer struck flake, of black and grey flint, now lightly patininated orange and white, the edges are broken at a steep angle resembling retouch, though this is later damage as they lack the same degree of patination. Three large flakes have been previously removed to the dorsal face, one overlaps another and looks like part of the same flake scar. The wide platform has four incipient cones of percussion from trying to remove this flake, the last one (very close to a previous blow) clearly "did the job". Thin, weathered cortex is extant to the distal end of the dorsal …
Created on: Monday 11th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-940053
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axe, of pointed form with an oval cross-section, of Clough and Cummins (1988), petrological group XVIII, made from a cobble of green/grey quartz dolerite little bigger than the finished axe, original surfaces with a rough texture and with light brown surfaces are extant to the sides, the modified surface appear to be ground only, there is no evidence of pecking to achieve the final shape, this type of stone responds quickly to grinding. The cutting edge is heavily damaged, it has possibly been re-used as a hammer, though this is difficult to say for sure, the very tip of th…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F6A447
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Cornish greenstone axe, of petrology group I (Clough and Cummins, 1979, 1988), uralitised gabbro/epidiorite sourced from Mount's Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall, surface is pitted from loss of surface material but otherwise is in undamaged condition, it is of rather thick oval section with an asymmetrical cutting edge, the top edge of the axe extends further forward than the lower edge, both lateral edges are very straight from the top and the bottom of the cutting edge, only slightly constricting towards the butt, which is abruptly blunted, presumably to help with knocking…
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-915E2E
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Core from a thermally fractured piece of flint, the ventral face is unmodified from the natural fracture, the dorsal face has steep flake removals, grading to invasive around the edges, a patch of thin weathered cortex remains to near the centre of this face. Late Prehistoric.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-91419B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Correction blade from an opposed platform core, Hard hammer struck, of unpatinated mottled grey flint with some small iron scrapes from agicultural impements. Bulb of percussion removed by a transverse bending fracture, some irregular damage or use wear to both lateral edges. Possibly Upper Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-91080B
Object type: CRESTED BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Soft hammer struck crested blade, with muti-directional flake scars to the dorsal face and some recent damage to the lateral edges, of orange and grey patinated flint. This type of distinctive debitage is part of the initial preperation of (mode 4) long blade cores. Upper Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-90CFCC
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small tertiary, hard hammer struck spear or knife-like implement, of sub-triangular plan form and of patinated dark orange/brown flint. Both lateral edges are steeply retouched on the dorsal face, the platform has been removed by steep bifacial retouch, presumably to enable hafting. Possibly middle to late Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-905D34
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, asymmetrical biface, all flake removals are hard hammer struck, of orange patinated flint, with some recent damage to both ends and one side revealing the original mottled grey flint. Possibly a trial piece or reject of an attempt at an axe or adze. No tranchet flake removal to the "cutting" edge noted. With no diagnostic features, a broad date range of Mesolithic to Neolithic is likely.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-902AD5
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hard hammer struck sub-triangular flake, of slightly brown patinated mottled ?grey flint, all edges are irregularly retouched/damaged and the bulb has been removed or damaged. Possibly late prehistoric.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8FFAC7
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Core, made from a large hard hammer struck flake, with a large bulbal scar to the ventral face, and several semi-invasive and centripetally struck hard hammer flakes removed from the dorsal face, also towards the centre of this face is a patch of thermally (frost) fracured surface where the flakes haven't overlapped. Banded flint now patinated white, yellow and orange. Possibly Early Neolithic, cf. Butler (2005) page 120, fig. 47, nuber 6 for a broadly similar dicoidal core.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8FD127
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, hard hammer struck flake, of dark brown patinated flint with recent damage to both edges, revealing fresh dark grey flint below. Stained cortex extant to the platform. Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8FB430
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary, soft hammer struck flake, of dark orange/brown patinated flint, steep retouch to the distal end and irrugularly to both lateral edges. Platform broken in antiquity. Some recent damage to the edges, revealing the original dark grey flint. Palaeolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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