Record ID: NMS-FBBBB3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age button, very similar to examples from the Reach Fen hoard and the Kensington hoard, but with an additional (broken) projection (possible casting sprue/jet). Button is circular with a crudely cast loop on the slightly sunken reverse. Edges are worn and there is a small hole (casting error) on the face. The decoration is in the form of a moulded ring-and-dot within a sunken field surrounded by a raised and domed outer edge. diam 20mm, length with broken projection, 23mm. Weighs 5.49g. Examples above datable to Ewart Park and Carps Tongue complexes, 10th/9th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS470
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip fragment of spearhead. Condition quite good though wings a little worn towards the tip. Central raised rib continues to the point. Oldish break at point where socket would have ended and a small nick on the wing just below. Black discolouration at socket end, probably from casting. Weighs 16.21g; Length 58mm; estimated width at break14mm. Plain type, Greenwell and Brewis Class IV.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B710B4
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of spearhead 60mm in length to very sharp point. The edges are also sharp. The midrib is prominent and the the blade relatively flat. Width at (oldish) break 19mm. In section it is a diamond set on its points on a pointed and elongated oval. Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ampney St Peter', grid reference and parish protected.

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-4E7E04
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two halves of a Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis Type IV, now repaired as one. It is 110.2mm in length with a socket diameter of 17x15.7mm (one side is slightly squashed). The internal diameter is 13.8mm. The blade is 'flame shaped' and c.68mm in length. Almost all the original edge is damaged, apart from at the very base of the blade. The widest point is just above this, at 19.9mm. It would originally have been c.23mm wide here. The mid-rib, as an extension of the socket, extends to the tip. This has been bashed on both sides by a hammer-like obj…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-818D74
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis Class IV, with badly damaged blades and coated recently in preservative, giving the spearhead a very shiny appearance. The socket is 17mm in diameter (internal 14mm) with a mid-rib equidistant between the casting seams on both sides. This extends the length of the spearhead. The socket narrows over 56mm to 8x8mm just below the wings, where it is square in section. The loops are slightly lop-sided and roughly two thirds between socket end and wings, nearer to the latter. They are oval in section, looping out and …
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-582A14
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete but in two pieces, Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis' Class IV. It has a long flame-shaped blade (88mm in length) and a shorter body (61mm in length), halfway along which are the loops. The socket is 18mm in diameter (14mm internal) narrowing to 12mm at the base of the blade. The loops are pointed oval in shape and c.20mm long, with an oval piercing not invasive to the socket. The blade has bevelled edges which are quite damaged (recent). The maximum width is 25.5mm. The socket continues circular in sectino to the point. The patina is shiny …
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS174
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete socketed spearhead with leaf-shaped blade and diamond-shaped loops on socket. ?Clay core in situ, extends from mouth of socket through to within 4mm below break (note: similarity of ?clay material with find NMS173). Tip and upper blade missing, old break. Surface pitted, especially on one side. Greenwell & Brewis Class IV.
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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-6C4335
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age spearhead, measuring 49.8mm in length, max.12mm wide, and weighing 7.42g. Almost all original patina is missing and no original cutting edge survives. It is extensively worn. The tip is missing. In section the spearhead has a circular shaft (6.6mm diameter), apparantly with a clay fill, if so presumably left over from the casting process and creating a weak point for the spear to snap at. The spearhead has a prominent mid-rib. From its current outline (although heavily worn and damaged) it is probably Greenwell and Brewis Type Va, and would have had peg-ho…
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-8F2112
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy hollow spearhead, weighing 25.67g. It is 46.5mm long, 22mm wide (max) and 9mm wide (min) at the breaks. The socket is a pointed oval 10x4mm and slightly off-centre, so the metal is rather thin to one side of one face (where the break is more exaggerated). A length of 34mm is solid after the socket ends. One edge is very rounded though not apparently worn. The other edge is sharper and worn with chunks missing. The edges fall sharply from a central vertical point, although this is not a rib. Late Middle to Early Late Bronze Age in date, and possibly a miscast (d…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Downton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C5F953
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?MBA/LBA Fragment of blade of spearhead, both ends broken, mid-rib, bevelled cutting edges, short length of socket containing reduced hard fired clay.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CLEY NEXT THE SEA', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS936
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Socket fragment of MBA side-looped spearhead, side loops broken off. Length 41mm, blade-end socket diam. 6mm, other end socket diam. 13mm. Weighs 8.51g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS548
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MBA/LBA Very abraded tip of spearhead, blade edges not surviving, broken just below end of socket. The metal has laminated along parts of the broken sides.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARBOROUGH', 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-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-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
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Record ID: WILT-5DBFF5
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead, probably from (quite a large) flame- or leaf- shaped spearhead (possibly Greenwell & Brewis Type IV). The breaks are ancient and the fragment now very worn, although some knocks are recent. It is broken horizontally across the socket. The edges of the blade are worn although the bevelling is still visible. The fragment is from near the tip and has broken across the socket to one side and the solid spear tip to the other. The spearhead is pointed oval in section with a broad flat mid-rib (socket 9xc.6mm). The fragment me…
Created on: Friday 19th August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-774AE7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, consisting of the tip, of a Late Bronze Age spearhead. The break is ancient and possibly cut - the section is very smooth at this point, although the metal does appear to hava been treated, which may account for this. The fragment is 56.5mm long and weighs 15.51g. At the break it is 17mm wide (although one edge is worn) and 8mm thick at the mid-rib. At the point, which is worn, it is 3mm wide and 2.5mm thick. The rib becomes less pronounced c.10mm from the tip, where the blade becomes more lozengiform in section. At the break, the rib is very pronounced, with a slight depress…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS108
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of spearhead, tip and edges very worn, surface pitted. The size and shape suggests this is the tip of a spear and not some larger weapon. It is probably of the Rapier Type, Class IVa.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GIMINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS101
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable spearhead. Diamond-shaped in section. Edges worn. Although the size suggests this is the tip of a spear and not some larger weapon, there is not enough of the object surviving to be certain. If a spearhead fragment, it is probably of the Rapier Type, Class IVa. It is unlikely to be the tip of a dagger or sword, though could just possibly be from a very narrow rapier (Type IV variant Stretham or Cornacarrow).
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

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Record ID: WILT-058123
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Beautiful complete Middle Bronze Age copper alloy side-looped spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis's Class IV. It is 132mm long with a socket diameter of 16mm (int) and 17.5mm (ext). At its widest, the blade is 20mm wide. The blade is leaf-shaped and slender with chamfered edges meeting at an almost-complete point, ?recent damage. The blade consists of about half the spear head. The Narrowing socket continues (although probably not hollow the entire way). The socket also has a chamfered edge, c.4mm wide, around its circumference. The loop lie equidistant between the socket end and the…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2004
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Easton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-A4C551
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze spearhead, flame-bladed type, of Greenwell & Brewis type V. The edges of the blade are quite jagged, but otherwise the patina is smooth and shiny and brown. The socket (diameter 20mm, internal 16mm) is decorated with a series of vertical nicks, which are visible with socket end facing. Above this are four crude incised lines - rather wiggly and in one place one line vears off as though the designer has made a mistake. Directly above these is a ring of vvvvvvvv. Then two more groups of five incised lines, the top-most of which runs through the peg holes, 11.5m…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-578995
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis' Class IV, consisting of the socket, loops and lower part of the blade only. The socket-end has been widened and the metal here is rather thin - 0.5mm with a 20mm diameter compared with 2mm thick and a 17mm diameter 6mm above. c.14mm from the socket end the section of the socket becomes a square-on-its-points. This continues into the blade, where it becomes the mid-rib, and to the break. The loops are placed about two thirds of the distance from the socket to the bottom of the blade, nearer to the blade. T…
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.

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: NMS215
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late palstave with broken loop and trident decoration; central rib continues to blade edge. Stop ridge is square and of 'ledge' form. Axe is heavily pitted with small area of surface remaining. Casting seem just visible down one side. Cutting edge and butt end worn and uneven. Axe is long and slim, slightly flaring out then in again towards the cutting edge. Flanges are broken on one side and worn on the other. Blade width 44mm, length 172mm, weighs 451g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WOOD NORTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS195
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting edge fragment of unsocketed axe, probably flanged or palstave (not enough survives to be more specific). Cutting edge smooth and still relatively sharp. Blade width 60mm.
Created on: Monday 19th March 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EAST WALTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS743
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold short length of oval-sectioned bar, hammered broad sides, longitudinal striations on curved short sides, granular breaks. Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TROWSE WITH NEWTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS676
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small (L. 104mm) primary shield pattern palstave, haft area longer than body. Sides straight, flaring suddenly to expanded cutting edge. Cutting edge bevelled from point where flaring begins. Surface badly pitted, cutting edge worn and a little broken. Edges of flanges also worn and broken in places. Casting flashes visible but worn down. Cutting edge width 44mm, weighs 232g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MAUTBY', 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: NMS69
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neither terminal looks broken - thus object is complete. Ribbon is extremely tangled, but it would seem that intermediate narrowing is roughly central. The 'bar' thus created is currently tightly curved but may not have originally been so. Terminal 2 has flat section leading straight out of ribbon; no.1 is more rectangular and involves a half twist, its faces having sprung from the sides of the ribbon! No real sign of original twisting of ribbon - despite the extensive buckling there seems to be no 'extra-length' along the edges relative to the centre-line. Probably a bracelet, given …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2472
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny Bronze Age awl, square in section at mid point, one half tapering and becoming round to the still sharp point. The other half flattens to form the tang. Worn and ancient groove along length at mid point. Length 37mm, weighs 2.64g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SNETTISHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2470
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting end fragment of late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axehead, virtually all patina missing and cutting edge very worn. The sides of the axe fragment seem to be relatively straight, expanding at the cutting edge. Socket deep. Width of blade 47mm, weighs 53.34g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEACHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1188
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete ?dagger including ricasso and hilt with 2 rivet holes. Chamfered edges visible beneath corrosion. ?Broken at hilt and across blade. Metal thin (at thickest 1mm) so rapier unlikely. Bent across rivet holes. Hilt extends upwards at right angles from the shoulders with parallel sides, similar in style to sword Type Ballintober, early Penard c.1300-1200BC. Length unbent c.95mm, width at blade break 24mm, weighs 27.16g
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELTWELL', 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-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-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-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: NMS549
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?MBA Fragment, less than half, of a lozenge-sectioned ring, ext. diam.75mm. Perhaps from the head, or even from the shaft of a quoit-headed pin.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6960B5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age cast copper alloy quoit-headed pin comprising a large, disc/ring shaped head and incomplete pin. The pin is sub-circular in section towards the tip. Towards the head end, the pin is flattened, leading into the flattened ring of the head. The head is decorated with a series of incised lines around its inner and outer edge. The design of this pin-head is reminiscent of the sun-disc design common on later bronze age artefacts. c.1200 - 900 BC.
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS1380
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?LBA/ BA incomplete penannular gold ring, made of gold sheet surrounding a core of an unknown material. One end is sealed while the other (broken) shows the section of gold sheet surrounding the core. Weighs 3.22g, diam. 15mm, diam of core 4mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SKEYTON', 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-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-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-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.

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Record ID: WILT-F0E763
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement (probably) and probably Bronze Age in date. It measures 48x21.3x9.5mm and weighs 11.01g. Both right and left dorsal edges have rough working along them, with a crude notch at the right side of the dorsal distal end. The flint has almost 100% heavy patination.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-F127C1
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Bronze Age, flake and subsequent crude implement. It is roughly triangular in shape with the dorsal distal end being a point. The left dorsal edge has a slim nothc and some light working. The top right dorsal edge has some light working. Measures 50.2x48.2x17.6mm and weighs 37.88g. The flint is light grey in colour with c.10% heavy patination. It has several spots of cortex, c.5%.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-F14D45
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age arrowhead of Green's Sutton type, measuring 20.5mm in length and max.17.2mm wide. It is 3.9mm thick. The tang and the right dorsal barb are damaged, showing a grey flint beneath the 100% heavy white patination. The dorsal face has been heavily flaked while the ventral face is worked only at the right and left edges. The arrowhead weighs 0.85g.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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.

Record ID: WILT-E17754
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead missing one entire barb and most of the tang. The tang has some retouch to it whereas the barb does not. Patination is even over the entire arrowhead suggesting contemporary break. The arrowhead has 100% heavy patination. It measures 22.7x19.3x3.2mm and weighs 1.27g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-514237
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, measuring 26.5x22x2mm and weighing 10.16g, and comprising two faces joined at right angles. The fragment was found in an area where fragments of Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads have been found. It may possibly also be fragment, given its shape. The larger face is also curving and has a possible ?hammer mark. However, all the patina is missing, and the metal is a purpley-brown colour, which suggests a post-medieval date.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-512468
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, measuring 13x7x3mm and weighing 1.57g, and comprising two faces joined at right angles. The fragment was found in an area where fragments of Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads have been found. It may possibly also be fragment, but it is too fragmented to be sure. The patina is lost and the colour of the metal is light green.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-50E5D4
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, measuring 28.5x25x2.5mm and weighing 12.54g. Both faces are very flat and one straight edge appears original. The fragment was found in an area where fragments of Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads have been found. It may possibly also be fragment, but the apparantly original edge does not tally - if socketed, it would join at right angles with a corresponding face. However, the patina is dark green and slightly tinny.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-50C401
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny curving copper alloy fragment. It measures 15x8x3mm and weighs 1.66g. The patina is light green with darker patches. Because of its shape, its greeny colour, and the fact is has been discovered in an area where a number of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragments have been discovered, it may possibly be an edge fragment (side and face) of a Bronze Age socketed axehead.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E86904
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, probably from a socketed axehead, Late Bronze Age in date. The fragment is part of the cutting edge and socket made by the side of the axe rising to one side. The fragment is very worn and measures 30x15mm(being the width to the break of the cutting edge). A casting seam is visible running the length of the side. The cutting edge is very blunt and the socket ends 11mm before it. A fawn coloured material lies in the socket, ?clay from casting?
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-102923
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of part of the face and the side of the axe, with a very worn casting seam running its legnth. T face is slightly concave, presumably as the result of a ?hammer blow. The break at the side is mostly along the length of the casting seam. The edge is jagged but worn. Width to the break is 27mm. Thickness of the face 1.5mm, of the sides 3mm. Weighing 17.38g.
Created on: Friday 23rd July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-4CE6F2
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle Bronze Age palstave or Late Bronze Age winged axehead, consisting of the butt-end approx. 31mm in length with flanges or wings beginning at the sides. It is I-shaped in section at the break and weighs 43.30g. The width at the break is 29.5mm. The break is smooth (worn) but uneven and lumpy. It is 6.5mm thick; the flanges or wings are 13 and 14mm wide. The butt end is 2.5mm thick and also worn. The sides start developing after c.0.8mm. Casting seams are visible down both outside edges of the wings/ flanges, although they are worn. The patina is mostly light green wit…
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-509F12
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, consisting of two faces joined at right angles. It measures 20x11x2.5mm and weighs 3.92g. The patina is light green with darker patches. Because of its shape, its greeny colour, and the fact is has been discovered in an area where a number of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragments have been discovered, it may possibly be a small fragment (side of axe and face) of Bronze Age axehead.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E83223
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy loop from a late Bronze Age socketed axehead. It is circular in section and 5mm in diameter. It is a C in shape and 25mm long (14mm wide). A casting seam is visible at the midpoint of the outer and inner surfaces. Weighs 7.84g
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E75217
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment of an unidenitifed object, possibly a socketed axehead given its close proximity to other Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragments. The patina is silvery in colour and suggests a high tin content. It measures 23x18x1.5mm. One face is rough while the other has a rib or unfinished ?casting seam running its length. Not particularly datable, but possibly Bronze Age given its associated finds.
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E6F931
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment of an unidneitifed object, possibly a socketed axehead given its close proximity to other Late Bronze Age socketed axehead fragments. It measures 23x22x2mm and consits of two faces, at right angles to each other. One face has been dented (??a hammer blow). Its patina -purpley brown under light green- suggests a post-medieval date, but does not rule out a Late Bronze Age one.
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E6C880
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, possibly of a Bronze Age socketed axehead. It measures 20x14x2.5mm - all edges are broken. The face is curving in profile and 13mm wide. Two 'sides' join at right angles, opposite each other and extend c.5mm before breaking. No casting seams are visible. It is unlikley this is a socketed axehead given its slim width and lack of casting seam. The patina suggests it might be post-medieval in date, but doesn't rule out Bronze Age. It has been classified as 'possibly' a socketed axehead as it was found in an area where other fragments of socketed axehead have been found, suggesti…
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', 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-D1AD62
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age Transitional Palstave of Type Roundhay, Midribbed Variant (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, plate 64 and 65). The axehead is 153mm in length with a maximum width (at the cutting edge) of 40.3mm. Its thickest point is at the stop, 32.4mm. It weighs c.400g (to the nearest 10g). The butt end is slightly damaged but this is a result of the casting process and not caused through use or plough damage. Further casting errors can be seen just below the butt end and on the stop. The stop is c.75mm from the butt end and the flanges ar…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2007
Last updated: Saturday 6th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heytesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-05DB31
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy ?Middle Bronze Age tanged ?knife. The tang is broken across a rivet hole (ancient break). The tang is flat in section and 14mm wide. A 13mm length of it survives. The blade is pointed-oval in section and narrows suddenly from 17mm wide shoulders. At the ancient break (38mm from the tang) the blade is incredibly narrow and 4mm wide. The object is worn but basically retains its shape. The blade edges are chamfered. Length of fragment 51mm.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2004
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Easton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-E1C961
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint ?knife, 5mm high cutting edge, 7x25mm, smooth concave underside, 20% cortex. ?Bronze Age
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2004
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton Scudamore', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-517865
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, measuring 15x10.5x3mm and weighing 3.54g, and comprising two faces joined at right angles. The colour of the metal is dark grey. Most of the patina is missing except for a few shiny areas very light green in colour, almost 'pearly'. The fragment was found in an area where fragments of Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads have been found. It may possibly also be fragment, but is probably unlikely.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-516792
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy object, measuring 18x14x3mm and weighing 4.10g, and comprising two faces joined at right angles. The fragment was found in an area where fragments of Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads have been found. It may possibly also be fragment, given its shape. The patina however is purpley-brown in colour, suggestig a post-medieval date.
Created on: Monday 26th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-0F9701
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete (slightly damaged) Bronze Age or Early-Medieval amber bead. It is conical in shape with a rounded body, being 11.9mm diameter at the centre and 4.7 and 5.9mm diameter at the ends The central piercing is 2.8mm diameter and the bead weighs 0.97g. The bead is 15.3mm long. The damage has occurred at one of the ends. Beads, to be worn on a string (and often found in graves), were popular in Early-Medieval times, amber being the second most popular material used after glass. Amber beads are also common Early to Middle Bronze Age burial finds.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
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Record ID: WILT-981DD6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead of Type Sompting. The fragment measures 36mm by 23.5mm and is 4mm thick. It consists of part of the face and side to its left (when held with decorated face uppermost). The edge is flaring and it is likely this fragment was nearer to the cutting edge end than the socket end. It is decorated with two ribs ending in pellets (the ribs are 11 and 15mm long, both ending in a pellet parallel to each other and at the same horizontal level). There is a deep scratch between the ribs. The reverse has traces of black. The angle at which th…
Created on: Thursday 18th March 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-490F76
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ?incomplete awl, possibly Bronze Age. It is 51.5mm in length and square in section (5x5mm) up to the point. The broken end is pitted and seems to taper slightly, ?wear. A few tiny traces of dark shiny green patina survive. This may be a complete awl, or it may have tapered to a flat hafting end.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd March 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
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Record ID: WILT-1016A6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unidentified and undatable copper alloy object, roughly triangular in shape less one point, creating two parallel sides, the longer of which is slightly curved. The fragment is pierced (2.5mm diam) just beneath the shorter parallel side. Measures max 28mm by max 17mm, with ?no original edges and less than 1mm thick. the fragment has an ancient feel to it. ?Bronze Age ?Roman, or even Medieval.
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
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Record ID: WILT-0FE055
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unidentified copper alloy object, measuring max 22mm by max 17mm, with no original edges and a thickness of max 2mm. It is decorated with two parallel ribs and the surface is quite pitted. The reverse is smooth but not quite flat. Roman? Bronze Age? Medieval?
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.

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-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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-5B2036
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age sickle. It is pointed oval in section and 21.5mm wide (max 2.5mm thick) at the (old) break. Both sides have decoration in the form of three worn ribs and two grooves. The three ribs join at a point 7mm from the end of the sickle, and a single rib extends to this end point. The fragment is 30mm long with one short mostly straight edge (it curves downwards at the very end) and one long curving edge. The surface is slightly pitted and the metal a bluey colour. The fragment weighs 5.62g.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5A6FE0
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mouth fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of perhaps a quarter of the mouth moulding (triangular in section) and part of the body extending below. Its estimated original diameter is c.36mm. The surviving fragment measures 30.5x18x5mm and weighs 11.45g. It is worn and all breaks are old. A worn but prominent casting seam is also visible. It is probably not part of WILT-5A37F2, found on the same day, as the metal of this find is a brighter green in colour.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5A37F2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, consisting of part of the face and the side (which joins the body at a 90° angle). All breaks are ancient and it appears the side break has occurred along the casting seam - part of the ?seam survives towards the top of the axe fragment (it could also be part of the side-loop). On the face there is a vertical rib decoration. Measures 26x20.5x4mm and weighs 14.02g. This find is probably not part of WILT-5A6FE0, found on the same day, as the metal is a much darker green in colour.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-415167
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Bronze Age awl, 48mm in length and roughly circular in section at its mid-point (5mm diameter). This then narrows over 25mm to a point at one end, and at the other becomes square in section (4x4mm) thinning to a flat end (4x1mm), the tang, over 23mm. Weighs 5.12g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-7AB304
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, consisting of part of the rim and side of the axe, including the loop. The breaks are quite jagged; probably not ancient. The axe has a double mouth moulding, the upper of which is far more prominent. The lower appears (on this fragment) to be a continuation of the line where the loop meets the body of the axe. The casting seam is visible but not jagged. It stands less than 0.5mm high. The patina is smooth and green. 35x32x2mm. Weighs 23.96g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-6DDEB4
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ring with a smooth, shiny, browny-grey patina. The inside edge curves outwards to meet the outside edge, which is ridged. These ridges stand 2.5-3mm high, and 1mm prominent from the ring. They appear to be closely spaced and thin, becoming wider and more spaced out around the ring. There is a clean break across the ring, and leaving a 1mm wide gap. However, this seems to have been 'filled in' on the outer edge, whether by corrosion or human intervention. The internal diameter is 18m, external 25mm. Possibly Iron Age or even Bronze Age in date, and possibly a finger-ring. C…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

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
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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
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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
Spatial data recorded.