Record ID: WILT-613465
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (1500-1150 BC) copper alloy Rapier with a broad flat mid-rib, consisting of part of the blade just beow the shoulders. It measures 28.44x13.62x4.21mm and weighs 4.80g. The wider end of the fragment (13.62mm) is also much flatter, 1.90mm, and presumably extended from the shoulders. The narrower end, 9.79x4.21mm, is lozenge-shaped at the break. Both breaks are ancient.
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 14th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-7C0344
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) copper alloy socketed axehead, measuring 77.4x41.4x16.7mm and weighing 127.16g. It is uncertain if the existing, hammered, socketed end is the original mouth of the axehead. If it is, then only half of one face is missing, as well as the loop. The break is old horizontally. but one of the verticals seems recent damage. The socket is 49.4mm deep to the top (socketed) edge of the axe. The sides of the axehead flare gently from the mouth to the expanded cutting edge, 41.4mm wide and 1.6mm thick at the edge. Although slightly chipped, the cutt…
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5C5F87
Object type: TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probably Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) copper alloy cutting edge from a tool. It measures 21.11x7.71x4.48mm and weighs 2.5g. The fragment is triangular in cross-section and broken at one end, and above (old break). It narrows to 0.90mm at the end of the cutting edge. The metal is a light green in colour and the intact end suggests the cutting edge may have been hammered out a little.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5C1442
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age (900-800 BC) bronze socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth and body, now squashed flat. It measures 25.05x24.78x6.47mm and weighs 15.6g. The fragment has a thick mouth moulding with two ribs below. Transverse to these is a smoothed casting flash, also visible on the inside surface. Axes with rib decoration date to the Ewart Park and Llynfawr phases, 900-700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8E0680
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1450 - 900 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, consisting of part of the blade section. It measures 31.34x30.18x9.07mm and weighs 20.3g. The central rib is prominent and circular in section at the narrower end (7.69mm), while at the other (wider) break it has been flattened off on both sides. The blade is triangular in section to either side of the rib, narrowing from c.3.6mm thick to c.1.5mm at the edge. In shape, the fragment is triangular with very angled edges, suggesting an angular- or flame-shaped head.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-8BA0B4
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age (900-800 BC) bronze socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth and body. It measures 27.67x18.91x(max)4.58mm and weighs 9.5g. Just below the mouth, which shows unfinished casting flashes and is circular in shape, is a single moulding (max.thickness). The fragment below the moulding consists of a corner (part face, part side). The fragment suggests the axehead is of the Ewart Park phase, 900-800 BC.  
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-2BD9F2
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Middle to Late Bronze Age (1450 - 900 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, missing its socket end and its tip. The edges are very damaged, some ancient and some recent (plough). It measures 83.50mm in length and weighs 36.05g. The spearhead is max.20.73x10.62mm and min.13.42x7.08mm at either end. In cross-section, the central rib is diamond-shaped with the c.2mm thick blade extending from opposing points. At both breaks, the central rib is solid, suggesting the spearhead would have originally been quite long. It is uncertain if any part of the edge is original (ie.not damaged) …
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-01E6E2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age (1150 – 800 BC) bronze Socketed Axehead, consisting of part of the mouth with loop extending below and the body between. It measures 44.52x16.12x15.78mm and weighs 14.27g. The fragment is rather twisted in appearance, possibly as the result of intense heat. The mouth (6.25mm thick) has a prominent moulding from which the top of the loop extends. The inside edge of the loop seems to extend into another moulding below. However as so little of the body survives at this point it is difficult to be certain. The casting flash on both inside and outside edg…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-AE8C66
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1500 BC - 800 BC) tanged chisel measuring 51.10mm in length and weighing 11.50g. The chisel has a spatulate terminal (chiselling end), 21.66mm wide and 0.95mm thick, which tapers and thickens into a rectangular-section tang and rounded, pointed tang-end (1.5mm diameter). At the centre-point, where the tang is thickest, it measures 3.94mm thick. The chiselling end is bent at one corner. One face of the chisel has its edges hammered-up slightly, creating a thickening towards the edges.
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9DE391
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1500 BC - 800 BC) tanged chisel measuring 50.65mm in length and weighing 10.7g. The chisel has a spatulate terminal (chiselling end), 19.66mm wide and 1.25mm thick, which tapers into a rectangular-section tang (9.33x3.97mm at the neck, 3.50x2.68mm at the terminal). In side view the chisel is thickest in the neck. There is a small piece of edge missing at the spatulate end and the surface is very pitted.
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-747A80
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of possibly Bronze Age bronze object, measuring 17.74x15.87x5.64mm and weighing 4.3g. In cross-section, the fragment is V-shaped, with either half thickening towards the centre (max.thickness) and thinning again to the outside edges 9respectively 1.99mm and 2.75mm). The surface is a little pitted but has a smooth light green patina.
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2017
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Record ID: WILT-5A3765
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of three undatable Prehistoric flint flakes, dating from the Neolithic to Bronze Age (3500 BC - 800 BC). 60.73x61.48x11.31mm, 36.85g, flint grey in colour and opaque 23.91x37.33x6.75mm, 5.26g, flint dark grey in colour and opaque 28.64x30.42x6.40mm, 5.47g, flint dark grey and transluscent
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-052432
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age (2150 BC - 1500 BC) polished knife, measuring 98.53mm in length and weighing 35.07g. It is 34.45mm in maximum width at the centre, narrowing at either end to a rounded point at the distal (3.44mm thick) and 15.57mm wide blunt at the proximal. The left dorsal edge has polishing at the mesial point, c.12.5mm in length. Above and below the edge has been pressure-flaked with large-ish flakes. The dorsal distal end has smaller, steeper pressure-flaking, continuing onto the top right dorsal edge. Below is another area of polished edge, 26mm long. This is interrupted at…
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-B28617
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500 - 800 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, consisting of the solid tip only. It measures 46.49mm in length and is a lozenge shape in section. It weighs 14.4g. The break measures 16.45x7.97mm, the tip 1.85x1.81mm. The edges apper slightly bevelled, but the fragment is worn and has lost much of its original patina.
Created on: Monday 11th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-B25544
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age (2150 - 800 BC) bronze awl, measuring 54.90mm in length and weighing 4.3g. The tang-end is bent upwards slightly. The centre of the awl, which is the thickest part and rectangular in section, measures 4.59x3.89mm. From the centre to the point the awl narrows and becomes circular in section. In the other direction from the centre, the awl narrows is thickness and a little in width to 2.94x0.61mm. The surface of the awl on this half does seem to have been chiselled away to make it thinner.
Created on: Monday 11th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-4D8922
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age (900-800 BC) bronze socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth and body. It measures 22.98x24.81x(max)4.66mm and weighs 8.6g. Just below the mouth, which appears to be quite circular in shape, is a single-rib moulding (max.thickness). The fragment below the moulding consists of part of one face and part of one side. The fragment suggests the axehead is of the Ewart Park phase, 900-800 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-47CFF6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth and body below, on both part of a face and part of a side. It measures 22.96x21.93x(max)6.21mm and weighs 8.2g. The mouth (6.21mm thick) has single moulding with a rib below from which extends at least two vertical ribs before the (old) breaks. The lip seems a little more prominent on the face as opposed to the side, with a casting imperfection extending just below. Axes with rib decoration date to the Ewart Park and Llynfawr phases, 900-700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-223B13
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle Bronze Age bronze Rapier of Burgess and Gerloff Group IV (The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland, Prähistorische Bronzefund IV 7), cf. Type Appleby with a broad flat mid-rib. It measures 62.58x(max)13.48x3.30mm and weighs 7.80g. The fragment consists of the tapering tip of the rapier only, the point of which is worn and pitted. The remainder of the fragment has a shiny, smooth dark green patina. The fragment is bending slightly in profile. In cross-section at the broken end, which is slightly narrowed to 12.25mm, the rapier is pointed-oval. Rapi…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FA4F72
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Late Bronze Age (1100 BC - 800 BC) fragment of casting sprue, weighing 6.3g. It is oval in cross-section and measures 15.34x10.95 at the wider end, which has a rough surface. The sprue narrows over 14.97mm to an old break 8.64x3.82mm. The sprue forms in the channels of the mould through which molten metal is poured in the process of casting, and which subsequently hardens and is removed. Although the colour of the metal suggests a Bronze Age date, it could conceivably date later.
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-739705
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age (1000 – 700 BC) cast bronze faceted Socketed Axehead of type Gillespie, sometimes known as ‘baggy axe’. It measures 83.62mm in length and weighs 213.39g. The axe has a faceted, short, broad and baggy body with a gentle curve at the sides extending into a flared trumpet shaped mouth at one end and expanded cutting edge at the other. Both cutting edge and mouth are of similar width, making the axehead rather symmetrical. The mouth is circular in shape and measures c.43mm in diameter. It has a deep flaring collar which has a moulded rim at the edge. The socket …
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
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