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.

Record ID: WILT-48E1F3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Bronze Age flint implement, possibly an arrowhead or blade with rippled flaking on both faces. It measures 24.12x19.61x3.36mm and weighs 1.7g. The flint is transluscent and a pale brown/ grey in colour. It has been snapped at both ends. One face has 75% diagonally stacked ripple flake scars against one long edge, with additional pressure flaking along both original long edges. The wider snapped end has a little pressure flaking along it. The other face has 25% stacked horizontal ripple flake scars along the same edge as above. There is additional pressure …
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2011
Last updated: Friday 30th September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-44C630
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age (1150-750 BC) gold-plated penannular ring, measuring 17.35x17.40x5.75mm and weighing 6.90g. This is a probable addenda to 2011 T534. Bronze corrosion has leached from the copper alloy core out through the terminals, cementing both ends and encrusting part of the openwork centre, which measures c.6.7x5.6. The ring is oval in cross-section and seems to narrow a little towards the terminals ( 5.75mm thick at the centre, narrowing to 5.30mm and 5.34mm). Decorative banding of a lighter-coloured gold is just visible, c.5.7mm wide and three on each face.
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2011
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-89AE12
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of six objects of Bronze Age date: The rapier is fragmentary, worn and lentoid in cross-section at the old break, 9.74x2.15mm. It is roughly parallel-sided, narrowing to a rounded point at the other end 0.98mm thick. On both faces the fragment has a broad flat central mid-rib. The edges are worn with patina missing. The patina is mostly intact on the faces (dark green in colour and shiny) with some patches missing. Measures 31.65x9.75x2.15mm and weighs 2.5g. Spearhead 1 comprises the tip only, which is triangular in shape with chamfered edges on both faces. It measures 18.…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F9DDA2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (1500-300 BC) 'half-moustache'-like object, measuring 35.13x(max)17.52x(max)17.80mm and weighing 38.73g. On the underside the object is tear-drop shaped, with a circular hole c.9mm in diameter at the wider end. The edges of the hole are jagged but worn, suggesting ancient damage. The hole is 5.59mm deep and conical. The underside tapers to 8.72mm wide before rounding at the other end. In profile the object has a large hump at the wider end, 17.36mm tall. The underside is slightly convex at this point. The hump narrows a…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-DB2FE5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged fragment of Late Bronze Age (AD 900-700) copper alloy socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth, damaged body below and loop. It measures 36.62x42.05x30.07mm and weighs 35.7g. The oval shaped mouth (36.79x30.07mm) is a single, outward-projecting moulding max.7.11mm thick from which extend ?4 vertical ribs on one face. The other face is badly damaged but at least 2 ribs are visible. At the edges of the axehead the casting flashes are visible, but have been worn down a little. On one of these sides a loop extends 25mm from the mouth moulding. The damage is worn but…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-B12977
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (1400-1250 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, with some (recent) edge damage and surface pitting along prominent areas. It consists of part of the blade up to the tip. Measures 73.97x(max)21.69x(max)12.58mm and weighs 24.2g. In cross-section, the central socket is diamond-shaped, with an additional crest-like ridge on both faces and the edges of the socket between curving and not straight. At the (old) break, an off-centre socket 3.14mm in diameter is visible, extending 3.31mm deep. This is presumably the end of the socket. One edge is badly damaged but the…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E3A134
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably Early Bronze Age (2150 BC - 1500 BC) attempt at producing a knife, with flake removal scars probably as a result of trying to thin in. There is steep retouch at the wider, thicker end and also at a corner at the other end - this is probably blunting for where the knife would have been held. The flint is dark grey in colour with light patination. Measures 46.94x45.32x14.97mm and weighs 32.2g.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-D0BBE6
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possily incomplete Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) copper alloy awl, measuring 39.57mm in length and weighing 2.71g. Both ends are damaged, with possibly a small amount of missing at the wider end. The centre of the awl, which is square in cross-section, measures 3.85x3.70mm. It becomes circular in cross-section and narrows to a damaged point 1.62mm in diameter. In the other direction from the centre, the awl slightly widens (4.48mm wide) and thins (1.16mm) to the damaged end, which is perhaps not as thin as it could be. The awl has a smooth shiny patina and hammer and tooling marks.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cherhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-77CB78
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) copper alloy awl, measuring 48.33mm in length and weighing 4.70g. The centre of the awl, which is circular in cross-section, measures 5.13mm in diameter. It narrows to a sharp point at one end 0.60mm in diameter. In the other direction from the centre, the awl becomes square in cross-section (4.91x4.86mm). This narrows to a square-sectioned point 1.11x0.97mm. The awl has a smooth shiny patina.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Deverill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-4D06B3
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age (1150 to 800BC) probable sword hilt with flanged edges, measuring 22.63x18.34x(max)3.41mm and weighing 4.54g. The fragment is from close to either the terminal or where the hilt joins the shoulders, as a slot or rivet holes for fixing (which would be apparent along most of the hilt) are not immediately apparent. However the breaks at either end are very worn, and one has a slight change of depth, possibly indicating the top of a slot of rivet hole. The fragment is ']' shaped in profile, with the flanges more apparent on one side than the other, altho…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lechlade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-0CE335
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age (1150-750 BC) gold-plated penannular ring, measuring 18.99x17.55x7.05mm and weighing 9.90g. It is oval in cross section (6.67x6.45mm at the centre), narrowing a little to the terminals (6.21x5.47mm and 6.14x5.55mm). Copper alloy concretion partially covers the surface and has leached from the copper alloy core. The gold plating is rather worn but decorative banding is just visible, slightly raised from the surface.
Created on: Friday 4th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C49374
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) bronze awl, measuring 47.27mm in length and weighing 4.70g. The centre of the awl, which rectangular in cross-section, measures 4.21x4.33mm. From the centre to the point the awl becomes circular in cross-section and bulges (5.66mm) and narrows (c.2mm) to the point. In the other direction from the centre, the awl has parallel sides but thins, to 0.98mm. The awl retains traces of a dark shiny patina, but otherwise the metal is green and pitted.
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C47562
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) bronze awl, measuring 39.04mm in length and weighing 3.91g. The centre of the awl, which is the thickest part, measures 4.82mm wide and 4.44mm thick (rectangular in cross-section). From the centre to the point the awl becomes circular in cross-section and narrows to c.1.7mm in diameter. In the other direction from the centre, the awl widens but thins, to 5.33x1.94mm just before the end (which has a triangular point).
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-524387
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1500-800 BC) copper alloy blade fragment, probably from a rapier. The fragment is diamond-shaped in cross section with a prominent rib on either side. The breaks are old. and measuring 23.89x20.84x6.24mm and weighs 11.95g.
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Lavington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-3C9EB1
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 on one face. It measures 30.45x18.20x(max)7.24mm and weighs 11.46g. The cutting edge is expanded and worn but apparently undamaged. Both faces are pitted and the shorter looks 'caved in' at the edge - conducive with a hammer blow. All breaks are old. The socket is rectangular in cross-section, and the fragment itself triangular in cross-section. While the axehead is rather small, it is difficult to say whether or not it is 'votive'. It m…
Created on: Monday 29th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-AD88E3
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) bronze awl, measuring 68.13mm in length and weighing 3.63g. It is perhaps widest at the centre (3.74x3.29mm), narrowing to a point at one end and thinning to a flat rounded end c.2x1.17mm at the other. Between the latter and the centre is a waisted area, probably due to wear, c.3x3mm. All original patina has been lost.
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durnford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C4C954
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Middle Bronze Age (1400-1150 BC) socketed axehead, missing part of one side (old damage). It measures 120.40mm in length and weighs 183.55g. Possibly a very worn socketed axe of Taunton-Hademarschen type. The socket end is square in shape, measuring 26.14x27.16mm (internal dimensions 18.82x19.17mm). Two adjacent edges are intact while one other is cracked and worn and the fourth has four pit-like hollows (possibly a result of air bubbles in the casting process). The thin cracked edge is 1.99mm thick while its opposite is 4.83mm. The pitted edge is 4.19mm thick,…
Created on: Tuesday 13th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9BA0E6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probably pre-Roman, Late Bronze Age/ Iron Age (1150 BC - 100 AD) coarse earthenware vessel with crushed flint and grog temper. It is from quite a thick-walled vessel. Measures 18.83x17.90x10.93mm and weighs 2.93g.
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-8BC3E8
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1500-800 BC) copper alloy fragment of possibly rapier or knife with a broad flat mid-rib, consisting of part of the blade just below the shoudlers/ tang. It measures 24.10x16.16x(max)2.99mm and weighs 4.43g. The edges are jagged and the surface is pitted. One end of the fragment is flatter (1.67mm thick) while the other is lentoid in cross-section and max.2.99mm thick (edges 0.93mm).
Created on: Monday 28th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingbourne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6172B1
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy possibly leaf-shaped tanged razor dating from the early part of the Late Bronze Age (1150-1000 BC). It measures 40.61x25.10x3.91mm and weighs 9.41g. The tang is square in section (3.76x3.01mm) and incomplete (old break). It widens over c.15.6mm to 8.32x3.91mm where the shoulders slope outwards to 22.09mm wide and 3.47mm thick. The edges here are vertical, perhaps slightly angled, and damaged (recent). The damaged cutting edge/ break measures 25.10x1.11mm. For similar leaf-shaped razors on the PAS database, see BH-EBD380, NARC-E52F71.
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 1st August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodford', grid reference and parish protected.

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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Record ID: WILT-4633B2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable mouth fragment from a Late Bronze Age (1100 BC - 800 BC) bronze socketed axehead, measuring 23.01x13.19mm and weighing 4.83g. The mouth is 5.85mm in thickness, the body 4.28mm. The fragment has lost its original patina and is grey in colour. The fragment suggests the mouth is very circular in shape and circa 30mm in diameter (internal circa 18mm).
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-45FB77
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age (2150 BC - 800 BC) bronze awl, measuring 34.04mm in length and weighing 2.13g. One end (c.9mm in length) is pointed and polished and circular in section (max.4.37mm diameter narrowing to a point). Behind this the shank is square in section 4.27x4.41mm narrowing to the opposite end of the awl, 2.03x1.17mm. The shank has a blue hue while the polished point is rather more brown. The polishing is possibly due to heavy wear.
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-361573
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age bronze 'half-moustache'-like object with damage at both ends. It measures 36.24x9.87x9.84mm and weighs 10.74g. The object resembles half a moustache and consists of one solid pointed drop-shape. It is uncertain if it was originally a single half (as these are known) or one half of an original whole which would have been joined to the second half by a (probably perforated) central area. At the wider end (9.87x9.84mm) the jagged (old) break stands 3.6mm proud of the solid object, suggesting the end would have been hollow, perhaps for …
Created on: Monday 12th October 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2014
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Record ID: WILT-DC7684
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age badly damaged flake of buff colour, possibly a rough-out for a barbed and tanged arrowhead although the shape is probably fortuitous. Measures 39.63x(max)31.52x8.09 and weighs 8.85g.
Created on: Thursday 8th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-1B12D6
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 27.79x33.89x(max)8.29mm and weighs c.20g. The mouth has a double-rib moulding, with the top-most rib being much thicker. A casting flash is just visible in the furrow between. The mouth appears to be quite circular in shape. The fragment suggests the axehead is of the Ewart Park phase, 900-800 BC.
Created on: Thursday 30th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-F1CD35
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age decorated bronze awl, measuring 54.65mm in length and weighing 3.41g. Its max.width is 4.77mm and its max.thickness 3.25mm. From a central point rectangular in section and 3.84x3.25mm, the awl narrows in one direction to a squarish sectioned point, 1.43x1.85mm. In the other direction over c.18mm from the centre, it widens and thins to 4.77x2.93mm before narrowing sharply to a pointed end 1.11x1.71mm. On one face only and passing the widest point almost to its nearest end and the same distance in the other direction, is a wide and deep groove c.14mm long. On either si…
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
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Record ID: WILT-B52A80
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete unidentified copper alloy object, possibly part of a (long) Bronze Age awl. The incomplete object is rectangular in shape and broken at either end. It measures 51.13mm in length. At one end it is 6.20mm wide and 4.53mm thick and at the other 5.30mm wide and 3.50mm thick. Both breaks show the object is rectangular in section. From the pitted surface and green powdery patina, the objects looks to have some age to it. It weighs 7.44g.
Created on: Monday 13th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-748724
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Bronze Age (1900 – 1100 BC) bronze/ copper alloy flanged axehead, consisting of the worn butt end only. It measures 14.11mm in length and is 21.51mm wide and 5.66mm thick at break and 16.47mm wide and 1.70mm thick at the complete end. It is clear at the break that this edge is I-shaped in section (with a slight thickening at either end). The thickness at the middle of this edge 4.57mm. The fragment weighs 6.81g.
Created on: Friday 10th July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-840B36
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early (or Middle) Bronze Age bronze flanged axehead (or possibly palstave axehead although the flanges are a bit low), consisting of the damaged butt end only. It measures 24.43x(max)26.86x(max)8.77mm and weighs 25.15g. The damaged butt end appears to be complete at one corner and broken at the other. Just off centre is a bubble in the metalwork, possibly contributing to the break by weakening the metal. The break at the other end of the fragment is I-shaped in section, just as the flanges are beginning to develop. The fragment is too small with not enough surviving of the …
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: WILT-83D948
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axehead, consisting of part of the mouth and body below. It measures 30.64x36.07x4.28mm and weighs 19.8g. The mouth (6.60mm thick) has single moulding and has a rib below from which extends at least three vertical ribs before the (old) breaks. Between mouth and rib moulding is a blob of metal from the casting process. The diameter of the socketed opening would have been c.45mm. Axes with rib decoration date to the Ewart Park and Llynfawr phases, 900-700 BC.
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2016
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Record ID: WILT-83C855
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Late Bronze Age bronze/ copper alloy casting sprue, weighing 28.5g. It is shaped like a funnel and smooth around the edges, while rough on top (at the ‘open’ end). This end measures 26.02x16.86mm. The casting sprue stands 22.52mm with a (old) break at the other end, 17.02x5.76mm. This break is D-shaped in section, as is the trunk of the sprue (which is parallel sided).
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2016
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Record ID: WILT-1A4572
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to Medieval copper alloy casting sprue, weighing 17.6g. It consists of a rough textured, oval sectioned mouth (23x12mm), which narrows to a D-shaped in section stem (being curved to one face), 16x14x6.75mm. This is snapped at its base and a jagged edge is apparent below. To one side of the main trunk is a flat-sectioned projection of metal, c.15x14x1.51mm, with a torn and jagged edge. The curved side of the object is smooth whereas the other side is rough. Measures 26.91x35.46mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6FB3B4
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to Roman copper alloy miniature socketed axehead of Robinson's type I (Robinson, Wiltshire Archaeology Magazine 1995, p.60) with concave sides. It measures 26.69mm in length and has a cutting edge max. 15.35mm wide (max width). The narrowest part (at the centre) is 11.28mm wide. It weighs 12.39g. The axehead is thinnest at the blade end (3.03mm thick) expanding over the length to 12.31mm at the mouth, which is 13.62mm wide. The socket measures 7.87x6.51mm and is 8.86mm deep. The loop is cast to the side (and not part of the body of the axe) and is C-shaped (12.5…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5DE294
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age - Roman tiny, and now bent, copper alloy tanged chisel or possibly Roman stylus, 49.81mm in bent length and weighing 4.51g. It would originally have been c.51mm long. The tanged (or writing end if stylus), narrower end is 2.18mm wide and 1.19mm thick. This thickens and widens to 7.13mm wide and 3.51mm thick, just above the cutting edge (or possible rubbing-out edge if stylus). It continues to widen but also narrows to this edge over c.7mm, which is 8.73mm wide and 1.13mm thick. The cutting/ rubbing-out edge is damaged (oldish) but would not have been longer/ wider.
Created on: Monday 27th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-270FA6
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. It measures 30.17x29.26x(max)7.03mm and weighs 19.87g. The mouth has a double-rib moulding beneath, with the higher rib being much thicker. A casting flash is also visible. The mouth appears to be quite circular in shape. The fragment suggests the axehead is of the Ewart Park phase, 900-800 BC.
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Everleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F8A826
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Bronze Age bronze/ copper alloy flat axehead, with a damaged cutting edge and butt. It measures 83.50mm in length and weighs 111.42g. It max.width (damaged cutting edge) is 33.80mm, its min.width 14.00mm. The sides narrow to the butt and the flanges have been hammered higher on one face than the other. The sides are 12.85mm high (body of axe 9.77mm). The (mostly missing) cutting edge seems to expand at the (oldish) break. The butt (which is 2.58mm in thickness) is slightly damaged. The surface of the metal is pitted and some of the patina has flaked away. One …
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2014
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Record ID: WILT-4A2D61
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undatable copper alloy conical weight or casting sprue, weighing 43.47g. It stands 30.34mm in height and has a diameter of 25.46mm at its base, which is rough. All original patina is lost. The object is not a perfect cone but lists to one side. The top does not narrow to a point but rather flattens to a point. Bronze Age to Post-Medieval in date.
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-107A22
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age bronze awl, measuring 63.7mm in length. It weighs 6.18g. At the centre (the widest point) the awl measures 5.1x5.4mm. To one side it is circular in setion, and narrows to a point 1.1mm in diameter. To the other side, the square section narrows and thins to a flat end 3.3x1.3mm.
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2008
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
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Record ID: WILT-2BE244
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age tanged knife, bent in two places and damaged around the tang. It weighs 16.81g. The rounded point of the knife is apparantly intact, 8mm wide. It widens, one side being straighter than the other (which has a slight curve) over c.120mm (un-bent). It narrows at the tang to 17.4mm wide (from max.width 19.4mm), and probably further beyond this but edge damage prevents an accurate measurment. At this point is a piercing 5.3mm in diameter, clearly pushed through from one side - it shows on the other with a jagged edge. The knife has a central mid-rib on one s…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-07C153
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete/ fragment of copper alloy possible razor, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age or possibly Roman in date. The object is roughly rectangular in shape, but broken on three edges. The complete long edge is chamfered (2.2mm to 1.1mm thick), on one face only. The opposite face is completely flat. A nick in one of the shorter edges is probably the result of damage rather than the vestiges of decoration. Measures 32.2x19.5x(max)2.2mm and weighs 6.82g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-067652
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze side-looped socketed spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV, measuring 127.6mm in length and weighing 51.05g. The socketed is slightly flared at its 'open' end, and 17.6x17.5mm in diameter (internal 15.6x15.3mm). The loops, which are flattened, are situated roughly half way along the shaft. The head is leaf-shaped, with a slight turning-in at the very end. The socket is a pronounced mid-rib and the edges of the wings are chamfered. The max width of the wings, and spearhead, is 21.5mm. There is recent damage to one side of the spearhead in the f…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-84CC21
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Bronze Age copper alloy awl (probably), consisting of the tang end only. It measures 55.3mm in incomplete length and at the break is 6.7mm wide and 5.4mm thick. This narrows to 5x1.5mm at the opposite end. The metal is ratehr pitted and worn and a slight ridge (probably the result of casting) runs along either long side towards one face of the awl only. This is rather more prominent towards the break. Weighs 8.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-F45E04
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of possible Late Bronze Age socketed axehead with rib decoration, measuring 13.7x13.3x2mm and weighing 1.49g. Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads are c.1100 to c.700 in date.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-5EF602
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of bronze possible Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of part of the body with rib decoration to the front. It measures 34x22mm. Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads are c.1100 to c.700 in date.
Created on: Friday 3rd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-223096
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age bronze awl, measuring 70.2mm in length and weighing 6.81g. The centre, which is the thickest part and square in section, measures 5.5x5.0mm. From the centre to the point the awl narrows and becomes circular in section with file marks along the 'corners' to remove this line and make more rounded. In the other direction from the centre, the awl narrows is thickness rather more than in width (from 4.7x4.0mm to 3.4x2.1mm).
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-697EE0
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead, consisting of the very tip only. It measures 25.7mm in length and is a lozenge shape in section. It weighs 4.38g. The midrib occupies much of the fragment, there surviving only 1.5mm in width the edge beyond. The midrib is damaged to one side, showing possibly the very end of the socket. At the break, the fragment is 12mm wide and 5.4mm thick. The tip narrows to the very end, which is 3mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-4FCD41
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age decorated spearhead socket (probably). The fragment is curving in profile and would have originally been c.23mm in diameter. It measures 17.4x13.6x1.7mm and weighs 2.04g. The fragment is decorated to the outwardly curving side only, with two bands of a pair of grooved lines. To the reverse the metal is not smooth, possibly through corrosion. The two longer edges are jagged and are clear breaks. However the two shorter edges both seem to be original, which would suggest the object is no a spearhead. Possibly, patination has ocurred over the break, as is visib…
Created on: Friday 27th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-B075B6
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three Bronze Age flint flakes.
Created on: Wednesday 14th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-182C61
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of possibly Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of part of the body. It measures 13.4x18.5x2.5mm, weighs 3.0g and is slightly curving in section.
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-181C95
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Droplet of copper alloy, light green in colour and powdery, possibly Bronze Age or Iron Age in date. It measures 9.4x9.5x6.3mm and weighs 2.7g
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-B8EB94
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age/ Iron Age/ Roman/ ?Medieval copper alloy awl, bent. It measures 59.8mm in bent length (originally c.90mm) and weighs 3.67g. The pointed end is circular in section and 2.1mm in diameter. This widens to the centre part of the awl, which is 3mm in diameter. To the other end, the awl narrows to 1.4mm thick (still 3mm wide). On one side of the flattened end, distict edges are visible, rather like flanges. They have probably been flattened but may have had a purpose. They extends only 20mm.
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-9261C6
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age, Iron Age or Roman copper alloy awl, slightly bent. It measures 75.3mm in length and weighs 5.91g. The flat end is 4.2mm wide and 0.8mm thick, thickening to 4.1mm, the max.thickness of the awl in the square-sectioned central section. The pointed end is circular in section and narrows from 4.1mm to the point. It is this end which is slightly bent.
Created on: Tuesday 25th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-7201C2
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed knife of the Thorndon Class, complete and slightly damaged -squashed- to one side of the socket. The knife measures 110.1mm in length (the blade itself is 78mm in length) and is slightly bent in profile. It weighs 33.57g. The hollow elliptical socket has incurved edges and a c.5mm diameter peg hole on either side. It is across one of these holes the socket has been damaged/ squashed. At the open end the socket is 19.7mm wide (internal 16.4mm), at the opposite end it is 18.5mm wide. Its narrowest point, roughly centre, is 17.1mm. The open socket end is…
Created on: Monday 4th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heytesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E83868
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead with rib decoration. The fragment measures 18x11.7x(max)3.1mm,(min.2)mm and weighs 2.50g. The fragment is from the main body of the axe. The 'inside' surface is flat while the outisde ever-so-slightly sloping either side of the rib, which is 2.9mm wide and 0.5mm high. Socketed axeheads date from c.1100 BC to c.700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-92DF35
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragement of prehistoric pottery, probably Bronze Age or Iron Age in date. It measures 41x37.5x11mm and weighs 26.1g. The fabric has large chalk inclusions.
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
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Record ID: WILT-F83A78
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undatable copper alloy probable casting sprue. It is oval in shape, measuring 37.4x26.6mm and is max.17.7mm thick (at the centre). It weighs 50.14g. The underside is rough and uneven while the opposite surface is rounded and smooth. At the centre, longitudinally, is a 22.5mm long scar, which would presuambly have fed into the mould.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-616785
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age bronze moustache-like object with one damaged pointed end (but apparantly complete) and one missing pointed end. It measures 58.5x12.3x11.7mm and weighs 24.31g. The object resembles a moustache and consists of one solid pointed drop-shape either side of a central area D-shaped in section (being flat on the underside) and measuring 5.2mm long and 7.8mm wide and thick. This central area has a square shaped perforation on the underside 4.4x3mm and 3.8mm deep. The complete pointed drop is 32mm in length. The pointed drop shapes are decor…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-12C795
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to Roman copper alloy 'model' (Robinson, Wiltshire Archaeology Magazine 1995) or possibly miniature socketed axehead, with traces of iron in the shallow socket (9.2x5.6x3mm). It measures 38.5mm in length and has a cutting edge max. 24.8mm wide. At the socket end (narrowest part) it is 16.8mm wide. It weighs 31.28g. The axehead is thinnest at the blade end (1.1mm thick) expanding over the length to 12.7mm at the socket end. The mouth has a slight moulding which is emphasised by a groove beneath it. The loop is cast to the side (and not part of the body of the a…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-C3C8D1
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age flint dagger, measuring 165x61.5x22.5mm and weighing 216.01g. Both faces have been extensively flaked, with additional abrupt flaking all the way around the edges. One face has had many short flakes removed, but to one side only. This face has also had less abrupt working to the edges than the other face, and the point has not been worked, wheareas on the other face it has been, quite extensively, making it very sharp. The butt end is rounded but also quite sharp. The flint is dark grey/ black in colour with spots of a lighter brown. It also has a very light patination…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-3032A6
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Bronze Age flake, measuring 36.6x40.5x8.6mm and weighing 11.56g. The edges have been bashed/ damaged. The distal end is the widest point, is steep and consists of cortex. The flint is 100% heavily patinated except where the dark/ black shows through the damage.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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