Record ID: BERK-3ED711
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic scraper, probably Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age c. BC 3300 - 2000. The bulbar end exhibits a clear bulb of percussion with light radiating ripple marks extending partway down the partly incurvate ventral surface. The dorsal surface has a small section of the cortex in situ and the surface is heavily faceted with random flaking. The edge has bifacial fine and coarse retouch and probable further damage/fritting from its time in the ground. The material is a mottled grey/cream flint with small white inclusions with further iron oxide elements. The small black surface markin…
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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Record ID: BERK-F00E05
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broad tertiary debitage / blade flake c. 4500 - 3000 BC. The lithic is broadly leaf shaped in a pale grey chert. There is a modest platform with a percussion bulb and bulbar scar at the top of the ventral surface, which then has a slightly undulating surface to the distal end. The dorsal face has a pair of converging ridges with conchoidal ripple marks to their centre. The edges have no clear deliberate input to form a scrapper/blade although that which has the look of scaled retouch, is likely to be from its time in the ground. Some intervention to form a blade/scrapper can't be ru…
Created on: Friday 5th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-EFF863
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic to early Bronze Age backed blade or knife c. 2500 - 2000 BC. Formed on a broadly triangular cross section tertiary flake, the material is a pale brown/grey chert with large inclusions of a pale cream material. The ventral face has a modest bulb of percussion, much remove by a large bulbar scar. The remainder of the ventral surface has the characteristic ripples running down the full length of the blade. The dorsal face has a pair of converging ridges that combine into a single ridge running to the distal end. The concave upper edge of the blade has abrupt retouch, …
Created on: Friday 5th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-EFD6E8
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blunt nosed lithic scraper from a secondary flake, probably later Neolithic to early Bronze age c. 2500 - 1500 BC. The scrapper looks to be formed on a reused, or reworked waste flake and or debitage of chert/flint. Roughly an hourglass in plan with large double mesial notches and broad in section, it is formed on an opaque dull grey chert, with modest amounts of off-white staining and a large section of cortex to the dorsal surface. The lithic has large reworked hollow scrappers to either side that may be deliberate reworking for stripping things like bark from arrowheads and or, s…
Created on: Friday 5th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: OXON-EC04E0
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval knapped chert, gun-flint c. 1600 - 1850 AD. The flint is close to a perfect square, typically flat to the ventral side with the topmost dorsal side knapped into a wedge form with numerous flake scars. Viewed from the side, it forms an irregular polygon. The material is a grey chert with irregular small white angular inclusions. It measures 20.2mm x 19.32mm and 0.9mm deep, weighing 4.2gm.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: BERK-A6C795
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Neolithic leaf shaped arrowhead c. 4000 -2350 BC. The lithic has invasive flaking scars over both dorsal and ventral surface with low-angled, bifacial retouch along the edges. The arrowhead has a rounded proximal end and a slightly 'blunted' point to the distal end. The material is of a pale cream flint with numerous tiny, lighter inclusions.
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: BERK-A6B6FA
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint scraper, probably from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age c. 3300 - 2000 BC. The lithic has a 'D' shaped, cross section and is a broadly, a rounded triangle in plan. The ventral surface has a distinct bulb of percussion beneath the striking platform, to the proximal end. The dorsal surface has significant negative scaring and subsequent arrises. One worked edge has a semi denticulate retouch with the opposite edge being smoother in form. There is an element of bifacial retouch to one quarter. The flint has a deep grey/brown colour with several lighter inclusions over…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: BERK-1994EC
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Neolithic flint Plano-convex oblique arrowhead, probably dating to c. 2700 - 2400 BC. Worked from a tertiary flake of opaque white/cream flint. The arrowhead is broadly triangular in plan with straight edges and a concave basal edge that has been thinned to accommodate hafting of the item. There is clear edge retouch to the dorsal side with some evidence of further modest retouch to the ventral surface, although damage due to erosion in situ is also a likely cause. The arrowhead has a pale cream/grey appearance with numerous natural inclusions.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-A43567
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic, secondary sub-triangular flake with retouch to both long edges. The dorsal surface has numerous negative scars/arrises running roughly from the proximal to distal end. The ventral surface is smooth but for some fracture scars at the distal point that looks to have been broken away in antiquity. This implement may be considered as a scraper but, whilst the proximal end does have some evidence of basal thinning, it does not in itself look sufficient to have made hafting an easy task. Alternatively it may have been intended to be a trnasverse arrowhead. Dating is difficult; Neo…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2017
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Record ID: BERK-B649D8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked flint flake, possibly Bronze Age c. 1500 - 800 BC. There is a small platform with a pronounced percussion bulb, the ventral surface has two ridges and there is limited evidence of retouch. The surface has some ferrous inclusions.
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2016
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Record ID: BERK-62EA52
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sample collection of prehistoric lithic material, probably of Bronze Age date and consisting of a core, a scrapper and other flakes / debitage. All of the items were found in close proximity on the northern top of the field and close to the Ridgeway path over a stretch of c. 200 metres.
Created on: Saturday 24th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
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Record ID: BERK-541D14
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Middle to Late Bronze Age struck flake (debitage - waste flake) c. 1500 - 800 BC. It has a very crude bulb and platform retained. Cortex covers about 50% of the dorsal surface. No retouching is evident.
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
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Record ID: BERK-AD1C8B
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lithic object that appears at firast glance to be a tanged and barbed arrowhead of Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age date (c. 2500-1800 BC), however on closer inspection this appears to be a flake, of probable Brone Age date, however without the attributes of a retouched arrowhead; either this is a beginnings of an arrowhead lost or discarded before completion or it is just a flake that resembles an arrowhead in plan.
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2016
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Record ID: BERK-112088
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modestly retouched flint flake of general prehistoric date, but probably Neolithic or Bronze Age in date (c. 4000-1400 BC). Plano-convex in form, the dorsal surface has a single ridge running from just behind the distal point to the proximal end. The ventral surface is smooth apart from a modest percussion wave and some slight flaking. There are signs of retouch to both the left and right hand distal edges. This implement is modestly worked, sufficient to make it practically useful. The surface is a mottled grey with inclusions and ferrous like staining, some of the crazing/chips…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-658D56
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of 8 struck or burnt flints collected from the same field. It comprises: the distal ends of two thin blades (incl. i), of triangular cross-section in pale grey and pale grey/brown flint, a flake (ii) with a bulb of percussion on the ventral surface and a single ridge down the dorsal surface, of triangular cross-section but thicker than a blade, in mottled dark grey flint, a scraper (iii) with a bulb of percussion and scarring on the ventral surface with a small section of cortex and retouch at the distal end forming a convex scraping edge…
Created on: Saturday 14th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 23rd September 2010
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Record ID: CPAT-FB1747
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A triangulate worked flint blade of Neolithic origin (3500-2100BC). The ventral surface has a small bulb of percussion with faint trace of the percussion ripples across the surface. The dorsal side has a single lateral edge/dorsal ridge, running the length of the blade with dorsal scarring along much of its length. The cutting edge is formed on the slightly convex side with direct parallel retouch, some of which looks to have been damaged through the passage of time. The material is a multi coloured (pale cream/brown/red) and partly translucent flint with numerous inclusions of ferr…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-7C1861
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flake of dark grey chert, with possible retouch on one edge (the left hand edge in the right hand image in the photo). Other implements made from this type of material have been found in north Wales and it is suggested that they are of Mesolithic date. Found in the same field as another possible worked piece - see CPAT-7BC400.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Saturday 9th December 2023
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Record ID: CPAT-7BDE04
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flake of dark/light grey banded chert that has perhaps been fashioned into a lithic implement. The convex end has conchoidal re-touch scars to one side, giving this flake a probable use as a scraper. In date this artefact is possibly Mesolithic. Other implements made from this type of material have been found in north Wales and it is suggested that they are of Mesolithic date.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Saturday 9th December 2023
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Record ID: CPAT-7BC400
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rough flake of banded chert or flint of probable Neolithic origin. With no sign of a striking platform there is however, conchoidal scarring from re-touch along one edge and curving around part of one end (the left-hand edge in the right hand image in the photo). In the hand, this has the feel of a side scraper. The material is a banded pale cream/grey colour with some minor inclusion and ferrous staining.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Saturday 9th December 2023
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Record ID: CPAT-073E64
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a flint piece from a post medieval flintlock musket or pistol. The piece has the typical oblong form with a chisel edge. The long sides have been re-touched and shaped with numerous conchoidal scars to form the straight edges. These flints were in use from the early 17th century into the early 19th century. The material is a mid brown flint with sparse dark inclusions.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2011
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