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Record ID: SF-3F9AD8
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint side scraper on a broken tertiary flake, scalar semi-abrupt directly applied retouch forming a rounded convex working edge. Most of the platform shattered away in old damage. Length down percussion axis: 29.05mm, 39.63mm maximum width, 9.23mm thick at its midpoint. Weight: 14.51g. The crude nature of this piece suggests Middle-Late Bronze Age manufacture, c. 1500-750 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-19193A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A virtually complete cast copper-alloy socketed axehead dating to the Late Bronze Age, c. 1000-800 BC. This example belongs to the Ewart Park metalworking phase and is of the 'Meldreth' type. The socket mouth is circular sectioned, flares outwards at its upper edge and is heavily lipped. Underneath the socket mouth itself is a less prominent secondary collar which more or less lines up with the upper part of the loop which projects from one side of the object. The main body of the axe is broadly rectangular-sectioned and facetted on its front and rear faces, expanding outwards along i…
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A3DA3F
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint core of probable Bronze Age date, c. 2500-1500 BC. The core is sub-rectangular in plan, demonstrating removals from both faces and sides with little apparent care for flake direction and forethought of detachment. Heavily worked down (probably representing the reason for its discard), it is now patinated a yellowy grey colour with some iron staining visible on its surfaces. Preserved in relatively fresh condition, the core measures 71.43mm in length down its longest axis, c. 56.14mm wide at its widest point and 30.8mm thick at its midpoint. It weighs 159.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kessingland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E9C52D
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy modified/shortened dirk or rapier dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1500-1300 BC. This example falls into Burgess and Gerloff's group II, 'dirks with damaged or ill-formed blades modified for rehafting'. The dirk itself is missing the tip of its blade, but is otherwise preserved intact. Demonstrating a squared off thickened butt with two semi-circular notches (one on each face) cut into each side to facilitate hafting, The blade itself is lenticular in section with a broad, flattened midrib on each side. Preserved in fair condition with a patchy gree…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5574CA
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but somewhat corroded cast copper-alloy type Arreton developed flat axe, dating to the Early Bronze Age- c. 2000-1700 BC. The axehead is of broadly triangular form, with tapering undecorated sides demonstrating slightly raised shoulder flanges and a worn stop-ridge below the midpoint of the septum. Below this, the crescentic blade flares outwards prominently, thinning towards the cutting edge. Preserved in rather poor condition with relatively little of the original surface remaining, it measures 78.49mm in length, 14.67mm wide at its butt, 19.75mm wide by c. 9.5mm thick at…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradfield St Clare', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2E161B
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green's 'Ballyclare' type, dating c. 2500-1500 BC. One barb, the tang and part of the tip are broken away, but otherwise it survives intact. Manufactured on a tertiary flake of fine-grained translucent blackish-brown flint, it is triangular in plan-tapering along its length to a sharp point. The surviving barb is squared off, though due to breakage the form of the tang cannot be ascertained. Covering bifacial pressure-flaked retouch has removed the entirety of the original flake surface on both sides of the object. Preserved i…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DF31CC
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green's (1980) 'Sutton' type, dating c. 2500-1500 BC. One barb and the tip of the arrowhead are missing, but otherwise it is preserved in relatively good condition. Manufactured on a small piece of originally tan coloured flint that has now patinated a mottled blue/white, both faces of the arrowhead demonstrate highly invasive pressure-flaked removals that have removed almost all of the original flake surface. The tang is squared off at its base, the body triangular in plan with deep notches cut into its base, while the remain…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FC997B
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy primary (early) Palstave axehead dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The axehead belongs to Group I: shield-patterened types, and probably belongs to the Acton Park II or Taunton metalworking assemblages (Burgess' stages VIII and IX), dating c. 1500-1300 BC. Part of the blade is missing, though otherwise the axehead is preserved intact. It is broadly rectangular in plan, with a straight-sided rectangular butt demonstrating an 'H' shaped cross section, recessed septum and incomplete fan-shaped blade. It is lenticular in profile, with the thickest portion of…
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EEACBB
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment probably originating from the tip of a Middle to Late Bronze Age dirk or rapier, dating c. 1550-1150 BC. It is triangular in plan and lozengiform in section, each side of the blade demonstrating a raised central rib. The fragment consists the very upper section of the blade, broken at its lower edge in an old irregular truncation and with the extreme tip missing due to an old break which has also bent part of the object sharply. Preserved with a dark brownish green patina with pitted surfaces, it survives to a length of 38.01mm, 11.47mm wide at…
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bressingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-39BEF0
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a socketed spearhead of Late Bronze Age date, c. 1000-800 BC. The fragment represents a section across the midrib and blade wings (giving an overall lozengiform section) around two thirds of the way up the blade, truncated irregularly at its top and bottom edges as well as missing one side of its midrib in an old break. Preserved in somewhat poor condition, it survives to a maximum length of 17.68mm long, 21.35mm wide, and 8.27mm thick at the midrib. It weighs 5.31g. Due to its fragmentary state, this object cannot be attr…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C250C7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment originating from a socketed axehead of probable Late Bronze Age date, c. 1000-800 BC and belonging to the Ewart Park metalworking assemblage. Only the cutting edge of the axe survives with the very base of the socket, the rest of the object truncated in an irregular old break. In section it is triangular, while in plan the blade is convex and flared. No casting seams on the sides of the axe are visible, though these may be obscured by corrosion. Preserved in fair condition with some encrustations, it survives to a maximum length of 26.91mm, 46.70mm wide between the edges of…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beck Row', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2FE567
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck flint tertiary flake of probable later Prehistoric date, c. 4000-1150 BC. Broadly sub-triangular in plan, it has been struck from a core of mottled light grey flint and demonstrating a small patch of creamy white cortex at its distal end, the flake demonstrates two arrises on its dorsal face, a sub-lenticular platform, and a neatly prominent bulb of percussion on its ventral face suggesting hard-hammer removal. Preserved in fresh condition, it measures 37.15mm in length, 23.94mm wide at its midpoint, and 5.07mm thick at its midpoint. It weighs 5.62g. Lithics out …
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Levington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B2FFD2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found during metal detecting on cultivated land with the permission of the landowner on the 3rd of February 2018. An excavation was mounted on the 6th of February 2018 by Riccardo Caravello and Alex Bliss of SCCAS, a full report of which is available separately. The context recording numbers are retained in the catalogue below (all copper alloy finds recorded here were from context 0003). Please note that associated finds appear to have included four struck flints and seven potsherds. These are of interest and form part of the case by association and should be included in the managemen…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DDFF40
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy casting jet of probable Middle or Late Bronze Age date, dating c. 1550-750 BC. It consists an inverted sub-conical plug which bifurcates on its lower edge into two obliquely angled circular-sectioned arms, flattened on their outer faces. Preserved in good condition with an even green patina, it survives to a height of of 14.17mm when stood on its end, its body being 24.84mm in diameter by 8.04mm thick at its midpoint. It weighs 25.18g. Casting jets are waste products which form at the top of a two-piece clay mould when the molten metal has filled the object-s…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Assington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-34DC99
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy tracer awl of possible Middle Bronze Age to Roman date, c. 1500 BC- 410 AD. Only slightly less than half the awl survives, consisting the graver end of the object, with the chisel portion broken away in old damage. It is sub-rectangular in section, tapering along its length before the tip truncates in old damage. Preserved in fair condition with an even green patina, it survives to a length of 29.62mm, 4.52mm thick at its thick end, and weighs 2.83g. Many awls of this form are known to date from the Middle Bronze Age, though the form itself remained un…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E22FA9
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy probable socketed axehead or socketed unlooped chisel, if the former perhaps of the Taunton-Hademarschen type (Dot Boughton pers. comm) dating c. 1550-1150 BC. Part of the socket mouth and internal body of the axehead are missing in old damage, though otherwise it is preserved relatively intact. The socket itself is circular in plan, with a prominent mouth-moulding and the remains of casting flashes set above these. Part of one side of the socket is missing in an irregular old break with apparently active corrosion products visible on its surface. Below…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 5th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockwold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E21E0E
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a tanged knife of probale Middle Bronze Age date, c. 1550-1150 BC. The tip of the handle and most of the blade are missing in old damage. The handle has raised flanges at its sides and flares outwards down its length, with the remains of a circular aperture visible at its upper edge. The side-flanges disappear with the start of the blade, which is broadly lenticular in section with slight raised ribs at each side, truncating irregularly around a third of the way down its original length as a result of old damage. Preserved in f…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 20th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fordham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-80BE35
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a probable Ewart Park socketed gouge of Late Bronze Age date, c. 1000-800 BC. Only the lower edge of the gouge survives, consisting the working end of the object, with almost all of its upper socketed section broken away in old damage. It is circular in section, tapering to form a chisel-like edge with a broadly 'V' shaped deep recess in one side. Casting seams are visible on both sides of the object, though these are now somewhat eroded. Preserved in fair condition with an even greenish patina, it survives to a length of 33.31…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-325CB8
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and highly corroded copper-alloy probable unlooped palstave type axehead dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1500-1300 BC, perhaps of the Acton Park II metalworking assemblage. The butt and most of the blade have broken away in old damage, though otherwise the axehead is preserved relatively intact. It is broadly rectangular in plan and section, demonstrating a profile which thickens towards the midpoint of the object before thinning again as the axe flares outwards slightly towards the blade end, with parallel sides and a presumably originally convex cutting edge (now l…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradfield St Clare', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9AB793
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a sword dating to the Ewart Park metalworking phase of the Late Bronze Age, dating c. 1000-800 BC. The fragment consists the tip of the hilt and upper section of the handle, the latter flaring outwards towards its apex and being broadly 'H' shaped in section due to prominent raised marginal ridges which appear on both sides of the object. The lower surviving edge of the object demonstrates a partial circular perforation, which is incomplete due to an irregular truncation which has removed the rest of the handle and blade. Prese…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.