Record ID: PUBLIC-57747D
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint core probably of Mesolithic date to Early Neolithic date (c. 9000 - 3300 BC). The object is made from a dark-grey/dark-brown translucent flint. The surface of the flint is very clear and is not covered by any white patina associated with recortication. However, there is an area of cortex remaining on the flint. The object has a sub-conical shape. It is most likely an example of a conical bladelet core. There is a single striking platform, which serves as the flat base of the cone-like object. There is also a single flaking surface that wraps around the remaind…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Sunday 21st April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-8CA723
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete perforated stone tool, possibly a mace head or pebble hammer, probably dating from the Mesolithic to Neolithic date c.9000 BC- 2400 BC. A fine-ish grained [<0.5 mm] basic igneous rock of grey appearance. The object is broadly sub-oval in shape and sub-rectangular cross section with gentle concave sides. In the centre on both sides is a sub-oval perforation, bored into both sides, although the two recesses do not meet in the middle.  It is possible that this piece is a prehistoric stone tool, possibly unfinsihed, although a natu…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-976841
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable flint fabricator or rod probably dating from the early Mesolithic to late bronze-age period. Description: The fabricator is an elongated rectangle in shape and triangular in cross-section. It is made on a secondary flake with a small area of pale brown cortex at the distal end. The dorsal side bears the scars of the removal of two earlier longitudinal flakes. The bulb of percussion has been removed by retouch but there are conchoidal ripples along the full length of the ventral face. There is invasive, scaled semi-abrupt flake removal scar…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Utterby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CBDF1C
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint blade. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 28.5mm, Width: 10.5mm, Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 0.74gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-4CC4E6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey flint debitage. Two small thin flakes [length 26.8mm and 21mm], each with long narrow parallel flakes removed from its dorsal side and with concave and/or rippled ventral surface, one retaining a bulb at one end. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC. Combined Weight: 1.99gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4C339B
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint debitage. A thick sub-rectangular flake with long parallel flakes removed from its dorsal side and with a bulb at one end of a concave and lightly twisted ventral surface. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 39.5mm, Width: 18.8mm, Thickness: 9.6mm, Weight: 8.00gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4C10E7
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint with re-formed cortex, core. A pyramidal core with long narrow parallel flakes removed by unidirectional working from a broad flat platform. The working was not carried all round the object. A dense milky patina has extended across all struck surfaces and may argue a subsequent long period of exposure to a calcareous environment. Where this appears on the Wolds it is a local environmental effect and is very common. However, such patination is rare in the assemblage presented from Scotter, so this object may have been imported, perhaps in gravel or with chalk used to mar…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4BD6BB
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale semi-translucent honey-coloured flint debitage. Two small thin flakes [of length 35.3mm and 28.4mm], each with long narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a flat rippled ventral surface and a tiny bulb at one end. A draft of long angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect appears on the larger flake, while the smaller may bear very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect at one end. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Combined Weight: 2.29gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4943A6
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Opaque pale grey flint possible core fragment. A thin sub-rectangular flake with broad and narrow long flakes removed by unidirectional working from a flat platform. Both the long edges may be serrated, though this is more easily felt than observed; along one long side the putative serration may be accompanied by very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect. The ventral surface is flat. If not a core, this might alternatively be a plano-convex knife, perhaps unfinished. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic, 7000-3500 BC Length: 51.4mm, Width: 28.2mm, Thickne…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-482FF6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff flint debitage. A thin flake with long narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and a probable platform and bulb at one end of a concave ventral surface. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 29.7mm, Width: 12.0mm, Thickness: 4.7mm, Weight: 1.54gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-47D7D7
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey-buff opaque flint debitage. Two thin narrow flakes [of length 44mm and 28mm] with long narrow parallel flakes struck from their dorsal sides, and with flat [the smaller] or twisted concave [the larger] ventral surfaces. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Combined Weight: 4.20gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-479BD3
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey flint with cortex, core fragment. Probably part of a pyramidal core, with narrow parallel flakes removed by unidirectional working from a flat platform; one or two sides appear to have parted from the object during this activity. The penultimate episode seems to have been the removal of another thin narrow flake from the left [as illustrated] side of the striking platform. The lack of subsequent patination might suggest this object to have then been incorporated into a sealed deposit. Suggested date: possibly Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC. Height: 27.3mm, Width: 16.8mm, Thickness…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-38E898
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint debitage fragments. Five thin narrow flakes [lengths 33.4mm to 24mm], all with long narrow parallel flakes removed from their dorsal sides and with flat ventral surfaces, though bulbs are mostly lost to chips at the ends. The thick creamy patina may arise from exposure to a calcareous environment . Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Combined Weight: 6.93gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-38AD71
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale blue-grey opaque flint debitage. Six small thin flakes [length 35.2mm to 20.9mm] with cortex spots, all with long narrow parallel flakes struck from their dorsal sides and four retaining a tiny bulb at the end of slightly concave ventral surfaces. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Combined Weight: 5.66gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-388824
Object type: POINT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blue-grey flint point. A sub-triangular flake with long narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a bulb at one end of a slightly concave ventral surface. Very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows one long edge for two thirds of its extent. The point is very fresh and perhaps unused when the object was deposited. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 36.7mm, Width: 14.6mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 2.98gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-37CA6E
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cream coloured opaque flint with rust staining from gravel, serrated implement. A thin flake with narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a slightly concave ventral surface with a tiny bulb at its [stained] end. Short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows one long edge. Save for the retouch, very similar to debitage flakes NLM-37A5B1. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 38.6mm, Width: 15.7mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 2.32gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-37A5B1
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale grey opaque flint debitage. Four long thin flakes, of length 48.7mm to 38mm, all with long narrow parallel flakes struck from their dorsal surfaces – in a fashion so consistent as to suggest the work of one hand – and all with smooth slightly concave ventral surfaces, with a tiny bulb at the end of three; the fourth and thinnest is chipped. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Combined Weight: 14.21gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A3F539
Object type: BURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked piece of flint, probably a burin or possibly a borer, probably of Mesolithic date, 9000 BC - 4000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary flake of tan coloured flint. It is triangular in cross-section, and tapers to a point at the distal end. The right dorsal face is covered with previous removal scars. A burin spall has been removed from each side of the distal end, leaving a wide tip at right angles to the flake. The proximal left edge is also retouched with short, abrupt, scaled removals. Length: 32.87mm Width: 10.98mm Thickness: 6.28mm Weight: 2.3g
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-07EDDA
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint with cortex spot serrated implement. Flake with long broad and narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side and with a slightly concave ventral surface with a bulb at one end. Very short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows the longest edge, leaving about 6 notches per centimetre. Dense white patina suggests the flake has subsequently endured long exposure to a calcareous environment. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 44.9mm, Width: 20.8mm, Thickness: 5.5mm, Weight: 6.66gms
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-07251A
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark grey flint with cortex blade. A thin flake with long narrow parallel flakes struck from its dorsal side with a concave ventral surface. Short abrupt retouch executed from the dorsal aspect follows the opposed long edges. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC Length: 35.6mm, Width: 18.7mm, Thickness: 4.2mm, Weight: 3.78gms
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.