Record ID: CORN-F13F72
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy sword blade, rectangular in plan and profile and lozenge-shaped in section. Both cutting edges are worn and incomplete and the perpendicular edges to these are broken so that the original length of the blade is unknown as well as the position of this fragment along it, though it is at the end that tapers towards the tip, as any raised area has flattened out in section. The smooth dark green patina survives better on one face of the blade than the other, which has an uneven surface of raised areas of corrosion product. The lozenge-shaped section of the…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-EAE127
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete fragment of a late Bronze Age cast copper alloy (bronze) socketed axe / axehead, dated to the period 1150-750 BC. The fragment consists of a much worn and abraded blade tip / cutting edge. The fragment is broadly rectangular in plan; triangular in profile and has an irregular sub-rectangular cross section. Across the broken edge are the remains of an oval socket ; the side walls are uneven with one face being much thinner than the other. In profile the socket is V shaped. The blade has been heavily worn and also eroded in the soil; the blade facet has been almost comple…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leintwardine', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E9A578
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probable early Bronze Age flat axe, c. 2350- 1700 BC in date. The fragment consists of the blade and the lower part of the shaft which remains. The blade edge is uneven and the surface is pitted. The shaft is rectangular cross-section with an irregular break.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E94D95
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy double ended awl, probably of Bronze Age date. This artefact has a lozenge shape of 58.2mm length and maximum width of 5.7mm tapering to a point at both ends (rounded point at one end and a flattened point at the other). The cross-section is sub-square at the centre with a thickness of 5.4mm that also tapers towards the pointed terminals. One of the terminals retains the sub-square cross-section, becoming rectangular at the very tip, but the other terminal gains a more circular cross-section for approximately the last 8.7mm of the length. Weight is 6.42g. Awls were a r…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E94496
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy artefact, probably of Bronze Age date. This incomplete artefact may well have been a chisel. It has a sub-square cross-section tapering down to a flattened rectangular cross-sectioned pointed terminal at the complete end. This piece of copper-alloy weighs 36.98g and has a maximum length of 83.2mm to the furtherest point of the iregular and diagonal break across the widest end. The widest end measures 11.7mm x 11.2mm and the thinest end measures 7.5mm. The break reveals that artefact is at least partially hollow and that the walls of the object have a thicknes…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E93A83
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper-alloy blade that weighs 24.12g, has an incomplete length of 44.3mm, width of 22.9mm and thickness of 5.4mm. This fragment has a relatively fresh transverse break at both ends and a narrow pointed oval cross-section. Patches of corrosion and light green patina are present on this artefact. This blade fragment is probably from an artefact of Bronze Age date. This fragment cross-fits with fragment CAM-14C0B5. This fragment may possibly be from an object similar to that shown in Watson, P., 1993 Catalogue of British and European Prehistoric Metalwork in Birmingham Ci…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PUBLIC-AB5AC3
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead has been knapped from a dark brown piece of flint. It is sub-triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. The arrowhead has been knapped using a number of different techniques, including direct and indirect percussion, as well as pressure / ripple flaking. It is asymmetrical in shape with damage to the tip and tang . Much of this damage has happened relatively recently. The arrowhead has been worked bi-facially; both the sides (ventral and dorsal) of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edges. Both t…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clun', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PUBLIC-AAD922
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead has been knapped from a dark brown piece of flint. It is sub-triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. The arrowhead has been knapped using a number of different techniques, including direct and indirect percussion, as well as pressure / ripple flaking. It is asymmetrical in shape with the point and both barbs being damaged. Much of this damage has happened relatively recently. The arrowhead has been worked bi-facially; both the sides (ventral and dorsal) of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edge…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clun', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-958D88
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy flat axe fragment dating from the Early Bronze Age (2150 BC - 1500 BC). Only the cutting end survives. The butt is missing due to an ancient and well worn break across the middle of the axe. The break has taken half the surface of one face too. The axe head is rectangular in section. The cutting edge is flared at the sides but damaged. The surfaces of the axe are pitted and corroded, with a well developed green patina.
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-9530E7
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Bronze Age cast copper-alloy socketed gouge (c. 1150 BC-c. 800 BC). This is the lower part including the cutting edge. It is 'C'-shaped in cross-section and has a pronounced furrow throughout its length on the rear face. In plan, the sides taper inwards from the break at the top to the cutting edge at the bottom. The distance between the base of the socket and the base of the cutting edge is about 21.75mm. On the rear face, just below the break, there is a circular hole, about 2.32mm in diameter. This may have been used to secure a peg. The furrow has numerous longit…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-943AA3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a base-metal socketed axe of Late Bronze Age date found in association with smaller fragments of similar composition, LVPL-A47FE3. The following has been taken from the treasure report, case 12.11 Wales, (Adam Gwilt, Vanessa Oakden & Mary Davis): Maximum surviving length 40.8mm; external mouth dimensions 29.9mm by 27.9mm; internal mouth dimensions 21.2mm by approx. 18.3mm; surviving weight 65.9g. The upper mouth and neck fragment of a slender faceted axe. The axe has a slightly flaring or trumpet-shaped collar, whose base is defined by a horizontal moulding. The ax…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llangollen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-824953
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy Bronze Age axehead. Only the tip of the blade and a small portion of the body of the axehead survive. No traces of a socket remain in the break of the axe, indicating that it is probably not a socketed axe from the later Bronze Age. The blade is flared and slightly crescent shaped, perhaps suggesting that the axehead is either a flanged or palstave type of middle Bronze Age date, which would provide a date range of between circa 1900 to 1100 BC. The incomplete axehead measures 48 mm long, 44.82 mm wide at the blade, 29.32 mm wide at the broken end, …
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-6DC691
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two Early Bronze Age bronze flat axes, probably of Type Migdale (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, p 35-44)[1], of Metalworking Assemblage III, corresponding to Needham's (1996)[2] Period 2 -3 and probably dating to c. 2,200 - 1,900BC. One axe is near-complete, missing the blade edge but is fragmentary with fairly extensive corrosion and peripheral loss (with a surviving length as joined of 129.2mm and a combined weight of 299.0g). The parts of the axe have a corroded join and are likely to have been joined at the break. The butt is now rounded but is corroded and thin (with a width of 22mm…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hereford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-56C295
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, but concreted, Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy palstave of Acton Park (phase 2) or Taunton phases (c. 1500 - c. 1150 BC). It is unlooped with high, curved flanges (max. H. 28.2mmmm), fused to the stop ridge. The width at the butt is 23.4mm. The flanges start to rise gradually from the butt, reaching a maximum height of c. 12.6mm above the septum (the area between the flange facets and the stop ridge). The stop ridge is stands c. 8mm above the septum. There is a shield shaped molding beyond the stop ridge, and fused to it, on both faces (c. 19.5 by 18.0mm). Th…
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LVPL-529C33
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: St. Helens
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy possible blade probably dating to the Bronze Age. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in cross-section. The object narrows from the centre of the object towards each edge. The object has a mid-green patina and is undecorated. Each edge is broken and worn.
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rainford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-529263
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of sword blade in pitted condition, both ends broken, and almost all of cutting edges missing. Its dimensions are a length of >66.5mm, width of c.39mm, and a thickness of 5mm. Dates to c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-51B7E2
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy (bronze) chisel or trunnion tool of probable Middle Bronze Age date (1500 -1150 BC). It is likely that this example is dated to the metalworking tradition phase VIII - IX, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 5 circa 1500-1150 CAL. BC. The chisel is broadly rectangular in plan evenly tapering in width from cutting edge to butt. In section it is rectangular (slightly lentoid) and in profile it is thickest at the midpoint (corresponding with the position of the lug like projections / trunnions) tapering toward the butt and blade. The butt is complete (but …
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bridgnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-1611D0
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Neolithic / Early Bronze age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, 32mm long, 26mmm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in good condition and weighs 2.54grams. The arrowhead is complete and has no obvious damage. It is triangular in form with three rectangular protrusions emerging from its lower edge, forming the tang and barbs. These and the blades have been finely worked one each side and the tang has been flaked to produce a tapering section.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-13F828
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy blade tip, dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age c.1500-800 BC. Chipping along both edges makes accurate defination difficult, and the fragment could be the tip of a sword, dagger, rapier or knife.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-FFEAA0
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Reading
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age tanged knife, almost complete save for the rounded tip of the blade. The knife is 146.20mm long and measures 24.04mm across the blade. The thickness of the blade is 2.24mm and the tang is c3mm thick across its widest point. The blade, which is both unpatinated and still sharp, tapers outwards towards a rounded shoulder which leads to the narrower tang. Corrosion products on the tang and shoulder appear suggestive of the remains of a handle. The date range for this type of knife is c1100 to c800BC.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Spatial data recorded.