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-6E6953
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of ??Bronze Age copper alloy object, consisting of one face and part of a side at 90° to it. This edge is triangular in shape, its edges or ?'breaks' a rather clean break. At the opposite side of the face the metal is bent slightly backwards as though this break is where another side extended. This would give a width of 28mm across the front and a give the object a socketed function. No patina remains and the metal is a light green in colour with much black covering the surface, ?sooting. Although the metal does not necessarily have a Bronze Age quality to it, the shape is in…
Created on: Friday 27th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 10th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick Bassett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-84C652
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Droplet of bronze, very probably Bronze Age in date. It weighs 8.39g and roughly measures 35x18x(max)4mm. It is flat on one side and domed on the other.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 10th July 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-B80953
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete late Middle Bronze Age/ early Late Bronze Age, bronze Late Palstave axehead with very pronounced stop ridges and a damged butt end and cutting edge. The Late Palstaves are generally smaller in size than the transitional types and have a projecting stop. They date to the Wilburton phase. This example is plain. The axehead is 125mm in length, the length from butt to stop being 56mm. The stop projects 9mm max from the butt. The stop side flanges extend 32mm from the butt end (on one side these are damaged (ancient) and mostly missing). The side flanges have quite angular c…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 10th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alton', 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.

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Record ID: NMS-9072A5
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip of badly worn ?rapier or knife. Lenticular in section and quite thick- c.3-4mm at thickest point. Broad flat mid-rib and bevelled edges. Length to break 51mm, weighs 14.43g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHOULDHAM THORPE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F0B277
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin piece of copper alloy, roughly an isoceles triangle with one of the long edges curving outwards (3.8 x 3.8 x 2.5mm). No breaks, and quite possibly an object cut and redesigned to form another object. max 1mm thick, thinning to the curved and slightly jagged edge. Decoration in the form of three curving grooves that stop at the shortest edge (and possibly once continued beyond?) whilst fading towards the opposite corner. Possibly a Bronze Age sickle reused and redesigned as a razor? Seen by Stuart Needham.
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK OXBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-98B277
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of part of the body and mouth moulding. The mouth moulding is semi-circular in section, curving to the side. The fragment is curving in profile, which suggests the mouth was circular. It measures 24x21x5mm (body 1.5mm thick). It weighs 9.87g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-9975F0
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axehead, comprising part of the body and upper and lower mouth moulding. The upper mouth moulding is wider than the lower. The fragment is curving in profile. The metal is light brown in colour. It measures 22.5x20.5x3mm (the body is 1.5mm thick) and weighs 9.73g.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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-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
Spatial data recorded.

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-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-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-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-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-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-5045C4
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly Late Bronze Age or Iron Age copper alloy ring, slightly damaged (a small chunk is missing). It is triangular in section, the inside surface being a smooth curve from one side to the other while the outside surface has a slight rib running around it. It is 25mm in diameter (internal 12.8mm) and weighs 12.63g. At least seven other examples of triangular-section rings with curved inner edges have been recorded from Wiltshire in the past few years. They are thought to date to the Late Iron Age period and possibly linked to harness. This example is rather chunkier and may date ea…
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-471861
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle Bronze Age rapier, consisting of the damaged butt end and part of the blade. It has a pronounced midrib extending from just below the rivet holes, and very worn but bevelled edges. The metal is very thin and worn. The incomplete length is 63mm, and the incomplete width across the shoulders 32mm. The two rivet holes at the top of the shoulders are 4mm in diameter and broken across (all breaks are ancient). It is 'diamond' shaped in section and weighs 14.38g. The fragment seems comparable with Burgess and Gerloff's Type III which date to the Taunton Phase, c.-1400 to -…
Created on: Monday 6th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.