Record ID: YORYM-3DB3F3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date 1000-800 BC. The fragment consists of a part of the rim of the socket. There is a raised casting seam running laterally and centrally to the fragment. The collar consists of a single stepped raised edge at the socketed end. The remaining profile suggests it is from a sub-rectangular socket and is therefore a curvilinear profile. The surface is pitted and some of the original patina remains on the collar and there are patches of light green. There is not enough detail to precisely date this fragment howeve…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulrome', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3B5588
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting waste, probably dating to the Bronze Age. Casting jet with a double runner. One end is ovoid and slightly concave. The two runners taper then expand. They are thin and circular in cross-section. The second object on the picture.
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3B2AF5
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting waste, probably dating to the Bronze Age. Casting jet with a single runner. The first on the picture.
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3B10B3
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting waste, probably dating to the Bronze Age. Casting jet with a single runner. One end is ovoid and concave. The runner tapers then expands. This part is circular in cross-section. The third on the picture.
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3AA382
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four irregular pieces of copper alloy casting waste. Probably Bronze Age.
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-25D3A2
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave or socketed axehead. The piece represents the lower part of the artefact. From the point of the ancient break the sides flare, while the thickness decreases, towards the convex cutting edge. Dimensions: 41.7mm wide, 24mm long, 9.5mm wide (max). Weight: 33.75g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fowlmere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-15EFD4
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy miniature axehead. The top of the axehead is parallel-sided and of sub-rectangular section, with rounded corners. The blade flares towards the straight 'cutting edge'. A 'D-sectioned' loop handle springs from the top edge of the axe, rejoining the side one third of the way down the blade. The artefact has a light green patina. Dimensions: 21.6mm long, up to 16.6mm wide (cutting edge) and 5.6mm thick at the top. Weight: 7.71g. According to Paul Robinson, "...[miniature axeheads] range in date from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Roman period" (Robinson 1995: 60). A…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-12BFE8
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spearhead fragment. Cast lozenge-shaped mid rib and the slightly tapered stubs of the blade of a spear head, probably from fairly close to the tip. The break at the wider end appears fairly recent, that towards the tip is more probably ancient damage. Heavily abraded. The angular section and prominent rib might both associate this with the side looped spear heads of the Middle Bronze Age; examples displayed at the NorthLincolnshireMuseum come from Waddingham, Scawby and Messingham. Suggested date: Middle Bronze Age, 1500-1100 BC. Length: 48.9mm, Width: 12.6mm, Thickness: …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-10F757
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment from the butt of a Middle Bronze Age palstave. The object has an I -section with flanges rising on three of its four sides as viewed where it has broken, a result of the uneven break. Two of the flanges, symmetrically or diagonally opposite each other, are grooved on their outer edges. The extent of patination indicates it was broken in antiquity. A hoard of two palstave axes from this parish is currently going through Treasure process, but this object comes from a distinct findspot on higher ground. Suggested date: Middle to Late Bronze Age, 1300-1150. Length: 18.7mm, W…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-FE95C6
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy palstave axe of the Middle Bronze Age, 1500 BC-1150 BC. The axe is very worn and corroded, though it is nearly complete. The crescent-shaped blade tapers at its shoulders to the butt of the axehead. A very narrow stop is visible on the septum, but there is no trace of anything other than minor flanges over the septum of the axe. The butt has suffered some minor damage to its rounded end. There is no evidence for a loop on the upper face of of the axehead. The surface is relatively smooth, but still pitted and uneven in its condition.
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Spatial data recorded.

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.