Record ID: CAM-48F4C7
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy ring or ferrule of uncertain date or function. The ring has a 'D'shaped cross section. The external diameter is 23.97mm. The band has a thickness of 2.60mm and width of 11.87mm. The internal surface of the band is slightly rough which might suggest that this was not used as a finger-ring but some form of unidentified ferrule. The outer surface is decorated with three parallel grooves following the circumference of the band. This decoration forms four raised parallel lines that gives the appearance of a coil. Weight is 10.5g. Peter Reavill comments "patina definately s…
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 12th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Northamptonshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-76D140
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint multi-platform bipolar core, probably dating to the Bronze Age.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
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Record ID: NARC-565276
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment of a Bronze Age axe. The breaks are uneven and show signs of wear, suggesting ancient breaks. This fragment is the curved section of the blade, which is blunt. This fragment is quite un-daignostic, and so closer dating and classification is difficult. Axes begin as flat axes at the start of the Bronze Age period and then develop into palstaves and then to socketed axes. Many axes would have been used as modern axes are used as a tool for chopping wood and organic materials. Some however have been described as ingots and as votive offerings. They can…
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2012
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Record ID: NARC-CC1CF4
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy dagger, or dirk, of Bronze Age date. The dirk has been broken in half in antiquity. The dirk has four rivet holes. There is an even light green patina. Dot. Boughton, FLO for Lancs and Cumbria and specialist in Bronze Age metalwork, has kindly offered the following research: "According to Burgess and Gerloff (Ref: Burgess, C. and Gerloff, S. 1981. The dirks and and rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland. Praehistorische Bronzefunde IV, 7. Munich) (pg. 19): "Group II: Dirks and rapiers assigned to Group II have blades showing a central ridge which produces…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
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Record ID: NARC-259495
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead.
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2012
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Record ID: NARC-C22208
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 8th July 2013
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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
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Record ID: WILT-8CE367
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500 BC - 800 BC) copper alloy socketed spearhead, consisting of the very tip only. It measures 43.64mm in length and max.14.44x8.96mm at the (old) break. It weighs 13.2g. The midrib is circular in cross-section, the blades either side triangular in cross-section. The edges of the blades are much worn and at the tip turn inwards sharply (3.38x3.47mm). The patina is almost all lost but where it survives shows a defining groove flanking the central mid-rib.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: BERK-4DB4E8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper made on a natural flake, dating to the later prehistoric period, probably the Bronze Age or later. The scraper has been made on an oval flake of grey-white flint with a brown, iron-stained outer cortex. A spool has popped of from the dorsal surface. These are naturally occuring breaks and can occur because of fragilities in the flint; extreme temperature changes can cause spooling (for example if water infiltrates the rock then swells due to freezing) as can pressure. Minimal retouching around one half of the dorsal lateral suggests this tool was used as a scraper. Int…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2012
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Record ID: NARC-3B8D02
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Late Neolithic to Early Late Bronze Age date (2500 BC-1500 BC).. The arrowhead has been knapped from a dark brown transluscent flint. The barbs and tang are missing through post-depositional damage. The edges appear to have some retouching by pressure flaking.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2012
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Record ID: NARC-865BC7
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object. This is probably a blade of Bronze Age date, suggested by the patina of the copper alloy. The object is triangular in section, being 6mm thick at its widest and tapering to a sharp narrow convex edge. The widest edge is slightly convex. It is eliptical in plan. it is 41mm long, 13mm wide and 66mm thick. It weighs 8.66g. No exact replica has been found for this object. It is possibly the blade edge of a Bronze Age axe head. However, the wede edge is very regular and unliley to be a broken edge. The Bronze Age Finds Advisor of teh British Museum has been…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2012
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Record ID: NARC-889BB3
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy 'unlooped shield pattern' palstave dating to the middle Bronze Age. The axe has a flared cutting edge and a rectangular butt, and has a rectangular hollow located on either side of the stop ridge. The axe measures 135mm long and the body is 21mm wide at its widest (the stop ridge). The blade is 18mm thick after the stop and tapers to the cutting edge, which is 35mm wide. The distance from the butt to the inside of the stop is 58mm. The sides of the butt are triangular in plan. There is little sign of use-wear on the but or the blade. The axe has gas a dull br…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Record ID: NARC-3B6226
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abandoned attempt at a small Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead knapped from transluscent light brown flint. The bulb of percussion and asociated ripples remain at the reverse, and cortex is still present on one half of the opposite side. There are no signs of retouching at the edges.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2011
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Record ID: NARC-2A7C57
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged arrowhead of drak grey flint. A small area of cortex still exists on one lower corner. Some damaged to one edge, and to the point, reveal areas of reworking which has lead to the object being asymmetrical. According to Sutton's classification of barbed and tanged arrowheads and this is a 'Sutton bj' type.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2012
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Record ID: NARC-1D6350
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged arrowhead of Late neolithic/Early Bronze Age date, made of transcuscent brown flint. The flint has been retouched by pressure-flaking on both the front and back. It probably belongs to a type known as the Sutton type (Butler 1995, p. 164). The barbs are subtle (i.e., worn), and the tang is extended and not straight. See also PAS record ID: SOM-792E07 and SWYOR-2CB2F5.
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2011
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Record ID: NARC-5D5F57
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy socketed gouge dating to the Late Bronze Age betweem c. 1150 and c. 800 BC. The gouge has a hollow socket, circular in section, which narrows to form a flaring and curved blade edge. The gouge is in good condition with an even green patina. The socketed end is 17mm in diameter. The gouge is 92mm long, and the flared blade end is 14mm wide. Two similar examples are illustrated in Watson, P, 1993, 'Catalogue of British and European Prehistoric Metalwork in Birmingham City Museums', BAR British Series 233. According to Pearce, S, M in the 1983 publication 'The Bro…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2011
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Record ID: NARC-776444
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. Light grey fiint. the edges have been retouched and are slightly bevelled. The barbs are chipped and not as pronounced as they once were. The tang is rectangular and 6mm wide. The arrowhead is 24.5mm long and 19.5mm wide. It weighs 12.3g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Record ID: NARC-AB2430
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Blade fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date (1700-1400 BC). Probable Needham class B. A large steeply curved crescent shaped blade. Broken after the crescentic edges, revealing the horizontal inner groove. A dark brown patina with several spots of probable bronze disease.
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: NARC-5E5E86
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly convex fragment of copper alloy cast with two short sprues, sub-circular in section and 14mm long with rounded tips. The sprues splay outwards away from each other. The reverse surface of the convex plate is rough, while the outsdie edge has been air cooled. The plate is 43mm x 30mm and broken on all four sides. Peter Northgate of Oxford University has identified this as a late Bronze Age casting for a small spear socket.
Created on: Tuesday 18th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2011
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Record ID: NARC-207036
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast copper alloy blade of Bronze Age date. The blade is lentoid in section with one original edge still present. The original form, size and shape of the object is obscured by the current fragmentary and damaged state of the object.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2010
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