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Record ID: WILT-3032A6
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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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Record ID: WILT-C3C8D1
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-12C795
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-616785
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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.


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Record ID: WILT-F83A78
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-92DF35
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-E83868
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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.


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Record ID: WILT-F45E04
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-84CC21
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-07C153
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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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