Record ID: WILT-6C1AA8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Three body sherds of Prehistoric (and probably Late Bronze Age, 1150-800 BC) flint-tempered earthenware, collectively weighing 22.2g and individually measuring: 27.79x29.97x8.89mm; 27.40x27.25x12.08mm; 19.03x21.97x6.88mm.
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shalbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C37914
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1400-900 BC) blade, probably a rapier. The breaks are old and the edges damaged. The mid-rib is just discernable as broad and flat, and at either broken end it is pointed-oval in cross-section. Measures 30.40x14.17x2.50mm and weighs 4.11g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AD8D05
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Middle to early Late Bronze Age (1400 - 1100 BC) copper alloy notched-butt type rapier, missing its tip and with a worn butt end. The break is old and the blade is bent a little (horizontally) just before the break. Measures 95.84mm in length and weighs 31.53g. The butt end has recent damage to the top edge, with loss of patina, and two notches just above the shoulders (the widest point, which measures 29.27x3.38mm). The narrowing blade extends from the shoulders with a broad flat mid-rib. It is thickest (4.63mm) just below the shoulders. The blade measures 8.44…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-B91985
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and shortened copper alloy Middle Bronze Age (1500-1300 BC) Group II dirk, missing its tip. It measures 45.42x12.86x1.72mm and weighs 3.19g. The blade is triangular in shape and lenticular in cross-section, with a broad flat midrib. It extends from a flat D-shaped butt-end (1.20mm thick and 12.96mm wide) with a crescentic notch to either side - the result of worn-through rivet holes. The butt-end also has a slight crescentic notch, but it is uncertain whether this is intentional or damage. The blade narrows from 10.90x1.55mm to 4.63x1.12mm just before the broken tip …
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Deverill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-946C41
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of flint-tempered earthenware, probably Middle-Late Bronze Age in date. Measures 29.76x25.81x10.27mm and weighs 8.87g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-5F99C5
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blade fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1300-900 BC) copper alloy dagger, consisting of part of the blade just below the shoulders. It measures 46.51x26.45x2.67mm and weighs 12.02g. One end is slightly wider and flatter (26.45x1.70mm) than the other (16.32x2.03mm), and presumably extends from the missing shoulders. On both faces is a broad flat mid-rib and the edges are bevelled. On one face the midrib shows signs of hammering along its length. The narrower end is lozenge-shaped at the break, the wider end also but much more shallowly. Both breaks are oldish but still quite jag…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5ED7E7
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age (c.1300 BC - 900 BC) copper alloy probable rapier, consisting of part of the blade just below the shoulders. It measures 37.14x(max)17.63x(max)3.99mm and weighs 8.3g. One end is slightly wider and flatter (17.63x1.63mm) than the other (15.67x3.99mm), and presumably extended from the shoulders. The narrower end is lozenge-shaped at the break, the wider end also but much more shallowly. Both breaks are ancient. The blade has a broad flat midrib, widening and flattening towards the wider and flatter end. Dot Boughton, FLO for Lancashire and Cum…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-A573B6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A dispersed Late Bronze Age hoard comprising 4 fragments of socketed axehead, one ring, one ?pointer, fragment of metal working debris. 1) Cutting edge of socketed axehead, hammer depression on face at break, splayed cutting edge, sides triangular in cross-section with worn-down casting flashes. Old breaks. 57.59x26.67x10.82mm, internal socket 34.85x4.82x12.85mm, 37.17g. 2) Fragment of socketed axehead consisting of a corner of the body. Old breaks. 17.01x15.79x5.92mm, 4.83g. 3) Fragment of socketed axehead consisting of a corner of one face and one side, the face has…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-275BD4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim and body sherd of Middle Bronze Age Deverel-Rimbury type ware (1600-1000 BC), with a coarse flint-temper. Rim: Fairly simple with finger-tipping decoration, 51.35x26.52x17.87mm, 25.8g. Body: 37.39x28.11x11.77mm, 13.3g.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broad Town', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-12B9D2
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Middle Bronze Age copper alloy spiral-twisted torc dating in the Taunton period (1400-1250BC). It measures 211mm widthways, 193mm longways and is max.14.95mm thick. It weighs 537g, to the nearest 1g. The main body of the torc is square in section with accentuated edges and twisted rather tightly (the torc comprises 29 twists). It is thickest at the centre (14.95x13.78mm) and narrows on either side to 10.33x10.24mm and 10.18x10.49mm. From here the plain, circular-sectioned and flat-ended terminals extend, 9.58mm and 9.36mm in diameter, narrowing to 8.10mm and 8.46mm. Both flat ends…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 25th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-475A23
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) Socketed Axehead, consisting of the cutting edge only and broken just above the start of the socket. It measures 46.42x29.36x(max)14.45mm and weighs 51.2g. The cutting edge is expanded but has edge loss through corrosion. The casting flash is visible, smoothed down, on one side. There are traces of possible iron staining or corrosion in the socket and on both faces near the break. Where the patina survives it is smooth and orangey-brown. However it is missing in large patches, revealing a bright green colour beneath. The socket is rectang…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-2EA613
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Middle Bronze Age low-flanged, broad-bladed shield-pattern Early unlooped palstave axehead, with recent-ish damage to the butt end. It measures 141.45mm in length and weighs in excess of 300g (limit of FLO scales). At its thickest it measures 30.12mm (across the flanges) and it is widest at the cutting edge, 63.03mm. The blade is roughly triangular in shape but heavily splayed at the very-curved cutting edge, which is slightly more expanded to one side than to the other and gives a slight impression of lop-sidedness. Below the stop ridge, it measures 22.52mm which expa…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-858685
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Bronze Age (1250-1100 BC) copper alloy Transitional Palstave axehead of Type Roundhay, Midribbed Variant (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, plate 64 and 65, cf no.884). The axehead is 151.51mm in length with a maximum width (at the cutting edge) of 41.29mm. Its thickest point is at the stop, 30.58mm. It weighs c.370g (to the nearest 10g). The butt end is straight and slightly more worn on one corner. The stop is c.71mm from the butt end and the flanges would have been highest at this point, but they are damaged (from the plough). The stop…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heytesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-83D6D4
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of early Late Bronze Age (1150-950 BC) rapier or dirk, consisting of the shoulders and top of the blade. It measures 41.53x26.97x4.72mm and weighs 17.3g. Originally, the measurement across the shoulders would have been c.31mm (one is now broken - old break). The rounded butt end above has two worn-through rivet holes, c.2mm in diameter. At the old break, the blade is lozenge-shaped in cross-section with a central mid-rib. The butt end is flatter, though still lozenge-shaped in section. The surviving edge is bevelled. The object has a very smooth green patina. Dot Boug…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heytesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5D7742
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) tanged chisel, measuring 89.79mm in length and weighing 28.6g. The tang measures 7.34x7.13mm where it joins the body of the chisel, and narrows and thins to 5.83x1.85mm at the other end. Casting flashes are visible and worn down where it joins the collar. The collar is a square-ish circle in cross-section (11.46x10.65mm), with the concave sides of the blade below extending from it and flaring to an expanded curved cutting edge 19.64mm wide.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2011
Last updated: Sunday 7th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stockbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-A74356
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Ten individual copper alloy object fragments, one gold sheet fragment and several copper alloy fragments of casting waste dating to the Earliest Iron Age. The copper alloy objects consist of one sickle fragment, one socketed axe fragment, one triangular, blade fragment, one ingot fragment, five casting spues, and one small un-diagnostic metal object. Description 1. Gold sheet fragment. A thin five-sided sub-rectangular sheet fragment. Two sides form a right angled corner and appear to be the uncut deliberate edges of the sheet with feint flattening of the surface forming a bord…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2011
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D50014
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Late Bronze Age (1150-750 BC) gold-plated penannular ring, measuring 19.29x17.82x7.33mm and weighing 10.73g. One terminal is damaged (recent) and the copper alloy core can be seen. The ring is oval in cross-section and seems to narrow a little towards the terminals (6.94mm thick at the centre, expanding to 7.33mm then narrowing to 6.7mm at the undamaged terminal). Thin decorative bands of a lighter-coloured gold is just visible, c.2mm wide and alternating with a similar width of the darker gold.
Created on: Friday 11th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hungerford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E8DA70
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of c.114 Bronze Age objects spanning the Early Bronze Age to the Earliest Iron Age and probably deposited c.800-600 BC. Abbreviations: LBA = Late Bronze Age; MBA = Middle Bronze Age; EBA = Early Bronze Age L = Length; W = Width; T = Thickness; D = Diameter Catalogue completed before conservation work undertaken. Socketed objects still have earth within the socket therefore the weight will be affected. Other objects will also have mud adhering to the surface and so weight may be affected. Scales used will not weigh heavier than 300g. Assume all objects are complete a…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wardour', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-458B40
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Three fragmentary Bronze Age objects, an addenda to hoard 2010 T647. 1. A very worn spearhead tip, with almost all the blade either side of the central socket missing/ broken. The socket is circular in cross-section and measures 9.51mm at the break (internal 5.97mm). The metal is rather thinner to one side (face of the spear) than the other. The blade is c.3.5mm thick along the breaks, all of which are recent-ish. The point is very worn and damaged, missing its original tip (it is now 5.34x4.15mm). Where the original patina survives, it is smooth, shiny and brown with some pitting. …
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.