Record ID: WILT-9145D6
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis’s Rapier type, Class IVa, broken at the top of the loops and about a third of the way along the blade. The socket is highly accentuated in profile and is quite angular in section, reaching a point. The wings are very flat in comparison. Surface is heavily pitted and the blade edges are badly damaged. Length 52mm
Created on: Monday 17th November 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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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-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
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Record ID: WILT-CC0471
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible crude flint implement, struck but not worked. It measures 118x34.2x25.4mm and weighs 132.11g. One end is very pointed and sharp. The flint is orange in colour with circa 40% cortex edhering to one side - it is roughly triangular in section. Some of this cortex has been removed. Probably Bronze Age in date.
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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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
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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-46A797
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead or chisel, consisting of (probably) most of the cutting edge - it is broken (oldish) across one end of this. The width of the cutting edge as it is, is 25mm. It survives to a height of 16.5mm, probably just at the base of the socket. At this point it is its maximum thickness, at 8mm. The patina is smooth, shiny and apparantly intact. It is dark green in colour. The cutting edge is intact. Weighs 10.01g. There are some tooling marks visible on both faces. The object has relatively straight sides.
Created on: Monday 6th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiseldon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F4EEA8
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, both faces extensively worked. It measures 30x27x5mm and weighs 3.11g. The flint is dark grey in colour but with 90% light patination. There has been some damage/ ?retouch to the arrowhead, showing the grey of the flint beneath.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-F50CE1
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny and incomplete Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, missing the point from one tang. It measures 20.5x18.5x3.5mm and weighs 1.02g. The flint is dark yellowish grey in colour and one face has been worked extensively while the other has workings around the edges only.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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