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Record ID: CORN-7900DA
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete hammer stone of prehistoric date (likely Mesolithic to Bronze Age c.8300-800 BC). The object is a sub-rounded shaped pebble of heavily patinated grey coloured stone, probably granitic in nature. There two worked grooves or cups opposite to each other, possibly to assist grip when used. Measurements: diameter 98.22mm, weight 1227 grams. It is similar to database entry CORN-28A5F4.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DB4066
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint nodule probably used as a hammerstone for lithic tool production. Description: A complete, probable hammerstone made from a flint nodule. The nodule is ovoid in shape, flattened vertically. There are large patches of cortex on the two flattened surfaces but the remaining surface and edges are substantially covered with small fractures and percussion marks. The flint is light brown and grey coloured and the cortex is a pale cream/off-white. Measurements: Length 58.87mm: Width 53.27mm: Thickness 37.26mm: Weight 151g. Discussion: The hammerstone was found in assoc…
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2BBC19
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hammer stone, ovate in plan, profile and section, 98 mm long, 75 mm wide and 48.5 mm in thickness or height, weighing 542.4 g. The hammer stone is made from a large beach pebble of hard, fine-textured dark grey stone with dark patches from organic staining. The ventral side of the pebble has been weathered to a pale grey colour where it has come into contact with plant material within its original deposit. The pebble is unmodified apart from an oval patch, approximately 50 mm long by 30 mm wide, at one end which has been flattened by multiple percussion events in its use as a hammer…
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2E4F62
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete greenstone hammerstone. A flattened oval in plan and in section and sub-rectangular in profile. The entire surface has been pecked to form a symmetrical, sub-cylindrical shape which would have been comfortable in the hand, with one face almost flat and the opposite face slightly convex. Both ends have been flattened and are slightly worn through use as a hammerstone. The flatter of the two faces is very slightly worn and may have been used for rubbing whilst the convex face is slightly pitted and may also have been used as a hammerstone. Jones and Taylor (2010) describ…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-162BF3
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A beach pebble with percussion markings in the centre of both faces, perhaps used as a hammerstone. A wide sub-oval in plan, lenticular in profile and an elongated oval in section. The ventral surface shows signs of dense pecking in an approximately circular area around 35mm in diameter. The surface pecking in the centre of the dorsal face is similar in extent but far less dense. The surface of the stone is uniformly pale creamy-grey in colour with multiple striations of red-brown iron carbonate. Made from a greywacke sandstone beach pebble from the Crackington Formation dating fro…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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Record ID: CPAT-46AD6C
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cobble-sized irregular lump of flint with several areas of crushing suggestive of past use as a hammerstone. It also appears that at least one flake may have been struck from it. A roughly triangular area of whitish cortex survives on one surface, elsewhere the flint ranges in colour from cream to light green-grey to green-black. A chance find whilst metal detecting (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, January 2015).
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: WILT-EAAF56
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age to Roman hammerstone or pounder dating to the period c. 2150 BC - AD 400. The hammerstone is sub-oval in shape with flattened sides. Two two opposing flattened sides each feature a thumb-sized circular depression. The stone is grey-orange in colour with quartz and iron inclusions. The hammerstone measures 70.22mm in diameter and weighs c. 340g.
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 29th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hullavington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-C47AB0
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat quartzite cobble rubbing stone or hammerstone, oval in plan, and oblong in profile and in section. Both surfaces have been used for rubbing and there are patches of anvil pecking in the centre of each face and on several edges, where it may have been used as a hammerstone. This is one of a group of cobbles found in the same area, made of various materials, that were used as domestic artefacts such as mullers, rubbers and whetstones. All of these would be at home on a Middle Bronze Age settlement. Unfortunately we know insufficient about the range of stone artefacts used in Neolit…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5006C6
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint pebble hammerstone, roughly oblong in plan. Proximal end shows possible evidence of battering. It is cream grey in colour and almost totally covered in cortex. Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar example on page 12, Fig. 2.2(a), which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Sunday 31st July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FE3B2
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint hammerstone, round in plan and profile. Amber beige, beige, cream and grey in colour and almost totally covered by cortex. Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar example on page 12, Fig. 2.2 (a), which is dated to the Bronze Age period.
Created on: Sunday 31st July 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
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Record ID: NLM-9A7147
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete hammer stone. Sub oval, the top has been rounded off, the bottom has a small rounded hole in the centre 26.5mm diameter, 12.8mm deep, with a rounded base.
Created on: Friday 12th December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'baumber', grid reference and parish protected.