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Record ID: SUR-968681
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially worked Neolithic lanceolate point or implement made from a pink-brown coarse-grained quartzite. The tool is 74.3mm in length and oval in shape, with a lenticular cross section. The faceting on both faces is suggestive of hard-hammered working.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9CC099
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and incomplete whetstone made from an imported micaceous schist and of suspected early medieval to medieval date. The whetstone was originally rectangular and narrow, with a sub rectangular cross section. Only one end now survives, this has a rounded terminal drilled with a large suspension hole. The main body of the object has been thinned to breakage by heavy use from one side.
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-9C42F8
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a smashed stone object made from a fine-grained micaceous metamorphic rock (which is not of local origin to the findspot). One face is smooth and clearly well finished. It has incised lines forming a zig-zag pattern, which may be partial angular letter forms in Roman captials with thin stems and small serifs. The individual letters cannot be identified but the general style could suggest a potential Roman date for the object. Aside from the inscribed face, all other sides of the piece are broken, with heavily abraded breaks which are clearly of ancie…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-3F8FCC
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone made from a hard and fine grained sandstone, 51.5mm in length, with a rounded rectangular cross section. The stone has been heavily used and tapers in thickness from 10.7mm at a slightly concave rear end to 7.7mm where it has broken at the mid point from heavy wear.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
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Record ID: SUR-614050
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished Neolithic axehead made from a grey-brown quartzite with a grey band across it. Only a fragment of the surface from one face remains, with a curved edge on one end. The original dimensions of the object are impossible to determine.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-008C94
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Neolithic (c.4000-2000 BC) polished axehead. The fragment comprises most of the cutting edge, which is curved and a portion of one side which has a slightly flattened and facetted edge. There appears to be no evidence of use-related wear or damage.
The axehead is made from a grey-green fine-grained siliceous tuff or greenstone, with fine orange-brown streaks / banding. The lithological source is probably from the vicinity of Langdale, Cumbria. This material is exotic for the location of the find (south Oxfordshire), suggesting that the axehead would have…
Created on: Friday 7th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-D373BB
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete polished hardstone axehead of Neolithic date. The axehead is 123.6mm in length and 61.3mm wide, with a lenticular side profile and an oval cross section 37mm thick. The butt is rounded and the sides flare slightly towards the blade end before narrowing into the curved cutting edge. One face demonstrates damage from weathering, whilst the other side remains smooth with visible striations from polishing. This suggests that the axehead has spent considerable time partially buried in riverbed sediment with only one face exposed to the moving water.
The axehead is made from…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-4485BE
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe of chordate form (Wymer Type J), struck from a pale brown flint which is heavily patinated with a thick white patina from prolonged secondary deposition in calcareous sediments. The axe measures 92.6mm long by 74.6mm wide and 38.4mm thick and is bifacially worked with invasive soft hammer flaking covering both faces. The cutting edges are heavily abraded and the pointed tip has broken off.
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-C49A3D
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone mace head or pebble hammer of Neolithic or earlier date. The object is made from an oval pebble, 101.5mm in length, 84.4mm wide and 35.8mm thick with an oval cross-section on both the long and short axis. The perforation hole is circular and has an hourglass cross section, tapering on both sides from 38mm diameter at the surface to 20mm at a ridge around the mid point of the channel. The hole was bored from both sides of the stone (to meet in the middle) probably using a rotating drill and sand abrasive. Both ends of the macehead have patches of battering damage suggesting tha…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-208B83
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone, 50mm in length made from a hard micaceous schist and of suspected Iron Age or Roman date. The remaining portion is subrectangular, with a rounded terminal and an oval cross section. The edges have flat facets along the sides. There is damage to one corner of the end and the object has broken across the middle.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2022
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Record ID: SUR-00084F
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cylindrical whetstone of probable post-medieval date. The stone is made from a coarse grained sandstone, probably a local greensand. There are old breaks at either end and it has a sub-circular cross sectional profile. It was probably lathe-turned and used on a spindle.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-437FB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A whetstone or hone made of a fine grained brown grey stone with a high mica content, possibly a schist. The whetstone is 78mm in length, sub rectangular and narrow with rounded ends and oval cross section. The wider end has a drilled hole for suspension. There is an oblique notch across the narrow end which may be post-depositional damage.
Created on: Monday 12th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2020
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Record ID: SUR-E5A13B
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete conical whetstone of probable post-medieval date. The stone is made from a coarse grained sandstone, probably a local greensand. There are old breaks at either end and it has a sub-circular cross sectional profile. It was probably lathe-turned and used on a spindle.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
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Record ID: SUR-142448
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a flat, sub rectangular pierced stone object with a plano convex lenticular cross sectional profile and tapering edges on the three surviving sides. The stone is a hard and coarse grained grey-green rock of non-local type, possibly igneous, with abundant inclusions of quartz or feldspar. The pierced hole has been worked from both sides and has a slight hour glass profile with clear tool marks on the inner surface suggesting the use of metal tools in its fabrication. The coarse grain, lack of finish and thin, uneven profile all contraindicate a prehistoric origin.
Found o…
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-E35D0A
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large polished stone Neolithic macehead or shafthole adze, 157mm in length and weighing 1.1kg. The object is oval to sub-rectangular in plan, with lenticular or lozenge shaped side profile and oval cross section. The shaft hole is circular in plan with an 'hour-glass' profile, measuring 20 mm in diameter in the centre and expanding to 35.4 mm at each face, suggesting that it may have been drilled from both sides.
Both ends have been worked into functional adze-like blades, one is 83mm wide, the other 72mm. This difference may indicate an orientation to the object, with the wider …
Created on: Monday 10th December 2018
Last updated: Sunday 23rd December 2018
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Record ID: SUR-DB0B6D
Object type: STATUE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a stone statue or ornamental sculpture, 144.3mm in length, 80.1mm wide and 1.1kg in weight. The fragment comprises the heal, instep and around 2/3 of a naked right foot of a figure, carved from a dark fine grained igneous rock, possibly basalt. The pose suggests the figure had its leg bent forwards, with the rear of the foot raised off of the ground and the toes bent and connecting to a pedestal base or other object, of which a small portion remains attached to the underside of the foot.
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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