Record ID: SWYOR-C4F166
Object type: BURIAL URN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Circumstances of find The top of one urn was uncovered while digging footings for a garden feature. Reported to Manor House Museum, Ilkley and referred to an archaeological unit (Archaeological Services, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service), The remainder of the material was excavated under controlled conditions. Description of objects Three collared ceramic urns found in a single pit. In addition to cremated human remains, the largest contained a stone battle axe or mace head, a bone pin, a bone "belt fastener" and two pie…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-553554
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Sheffield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy socketed axehead which dates from the Bronze Age. The axehead is 91.6mm long and the socket is 42mm wide and 39mm thick externally. Both ends of the axehead are extensively chipped and damaged, and there are also chips on the body of the axehead. There is a circumferential ridge round the socket opening and beneath that three ribs run halfway down the body on the two main faces. There are casting spurs along the seams on the sides. The cutting blade widens slightly, but the damage prevents the extent of the flaring being known. There is a single loop on one side near th…
Created on: Friday 17th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-B1DAE3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An invasively worked tertiary flint flake. The flake is semi-circular but the straight edge is a break which occurred after the working but is not recent. The flake is 21.2mm long, 15.8mm wide and 2.7mm thick. It is bi-facially worked with scalar flaking but there is very little, if any, edge retouch. It may be a pre-form for a tool which was never completed. There is very little dating evidence at this flake could date from anytime between the late Mesolithic and the Bronze Age. However, it is slightly more likely to be from the Early Bronze Age. There is slight patination on all fac…
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2007
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-90C3E5
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy cast spearhead dating from the Middle or Late Bronze Age, about 1550 - 800 BC. The fragment is lozenge shaped in section, with the blade and midrib surviving. The tang or shaft would have been helpful in identifying it to a certain date, but this part is missing. However, as the midrib extends to the tip of the blade, which is of narrow form, the spearhead might be assigned a classification of no earlier than Davis Group 6. It measures 67.4mm x 22.8mm x 8.1mm, weighing 33.65g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-A88892
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper. This is oval in shape and has semi-abrupt retouch down the distal, left and right edges. This tool is 20mm x 17.1mm x 5.5mm, weighing 2.58. Butler, 2005, describes this thumbnail scraper type as being distinctively early Bronze Age (Prehistoric Flintwork, p.168).
Created on: Thursday 18th December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-F14BA0
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment of a Bronze Age sword which is 27.4mm long, 28mm wide and 5.3mm thick. The blade is lentoid in section tapering to a point at each side. Both ends are broken and the damage is not recent. There is too little remaining of the sword to suggest a more specific date. Another similarly conditioned and shaped blade fragment on the database (SWYOR-ADCF83) is dated to the late Bronze Age. On this basis, a possible late bronze age date can be suggested for this. The surface is slightly pitted and has a light brown patina.
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-3D0F18
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The tip fragment from a Middle to Late Bronze Age copper-alloy spear head dating from about 1550 BC to 800 BC. It is in the form of a narrow isosceles triangle with a rib down the centre of each face. In section it is lozenge shaped with a rounded central rib. The patina is rough and dark-brown in colour, though there are a number of areas where the green of copper corrosion has broken through the patina. It is 53mm in length, 19.4mm wide, and 6.6mm thick. It weighs 14.79gm. See Moore & Rowlands, Bronze Age Metalwork in Salisbury Museum, Plate 12, No. 65, and The British Museum's Guid…
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Last updated: Sunday 20th December 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-206D77
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a copper alloy unidentified object which may date from the Bronze Age. The fragment is triangular in plan and slightly curved in section. The edges are rounded and worn. One end is thicker than the other. It has a well developed green patina. Though it is not possible to say what object this is part of, the wear, metal and patina suggest a Bronze Age date. Though not associated, the fact that a Bronze Age spear tip was found in an adjacent field may be significant.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-AEEB45
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy socket from a Bronze Age Sickle. The socket is conical with a rounded end and the mouth is complete with a slightly bevelled edge. There is an irregular hole in one side of the socket. The start of a blade with curved ribs projects to one side and points downwards. The ribs are on both faces and are matched. The object is broken across the blade. It has a well developed mottled green patina. According to Fox's 1939 paper in The Prehistoric Society Journal, socketed sickles can have lateral or vertical sockets. This one is laterally socketed (which seems to be more co…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th September 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-BB3586
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mid to late Bronze Age flint tool. It is formed on a large flake of mottled grey flint. There is crude and irregular retouch along the distal end to form a cutting tool, and removals from the right distal side which could be used as a scraping edge. The workmanship is poor which suggests a late date.
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th September 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-28A5D0
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint barbed and tanged arrow head dating from the Early Bronze Age. The flint is light grey/brown in colour, slightly mottled, and barely patinated. The arrowhead is invasively worked on both faces and is a "fancy" type of arrowhead, probably a Green Low type. The barbs have oblique ends, and the tang is shorter than the bards and pointed. It has a length of 30.87mm, width 20.53mm, thickness 3.10mm, weight 1.91g. It probably dates from 2500 BC - 1500 BC. For reference see Butler 2005. Prehistoric Flint work p. 165 figure 69, no:1.
Created on: Tuesday 18th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-AD33C4
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper dating from the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (2500 BC - 1500 BC). It is 24.4mm long, 17.5mm wide and 12mm thick. It weighs 2.95gm. It is formed on a piece of grey green chert and has semi abrupt retouch on the distal end and sides.
Created on: Monday 12th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-B22A61
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint lithic tool; a thumb nail scraper dating from the early Bronze Age (2150 - 1500 BC). The flint is good quality, dark grey, almost black and opaque. The tool is oval and unusually thick, almost triangular in section. It is invasively worked with abrupt retouch round the entire circumference. A similar example is figure 70.9 on page 166 of Prehistoric Flintwork by Butler.
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-42F9C4
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint tool; a thumb nail scraper dating from the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, about 2500 BC - 1500 BC. The oval flake of partially patinated mottled grey flint has a rough and irregular dorsal face. There is a mixture of abrupt and semi-abrupt on the distal end and sides.
Created on: Monday 18th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-FF2D11
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude flint scraper probably dating from the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (2500 BC - 1500 BC). It is formed on a primary nodule of golden flint with cortex surviving on the dorsal face, sides and proximal end. The distal end has abrupt vertical retouch and displays edge damage. The flint is not patinated. The tool is roughly made and this suggests a late date.
Created on: Monday 8th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-8E7758
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Bronze Age spear head dating from the Middle Bronze Age, about 1550 - 1125 BC, and probably the later part of this period, 1400 - 1125 BC. The fragment consists of only the very tip of the spearhead - it has a narrow and slender tip with a pronounced midrib. The midrib is sub-triangular in section and is flanked by tapering wings that join at the tip. The tip damaged and abraded. The slenderness of the spear-tip suggests a long narrow spear head, although as only the very tip survives it is not possible to identify the exact form or class of spear hea…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-FD6067
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper which is unusually large and dates from the Early Bronze Age. The scraper is 32.8mm long, 17.6mm wide and 9.8mm thick. The proximal end is cortical. There is semi-abrupt retouch on the distal end and sides. The flint is a mottled light grey with a patina forming. Similar scrapers are discussed on page 168 of “Prehistoric Flintwork” by Chris Butler (2005).
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-FD7076
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper which dates from the Early Bronze Age. The scraper is 17.4mm long, 15.9mm wide and 6.2mm thick. The right side of the proximal end is cortical. There is semi-abrupt retouch on the distal end and sides. The flint is completely patinated and appears white in colour. Similar scrapers are discussed on page 168 of “Prehistoric Flintwork” by Chris Butler (2005).
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-CB5D80
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The tip only of a copper alloy spear dating from the Middle Bronze Age, circa 1500-1400BC. The fragment is triangular with a sharp point at the tip. It is 63.8mm long, 27mm wide and 7.9mm thick. There is a central ridge along the blade which is slightly rounded. The section is thus a vertical oval with tapering side flanges rather than a lozenge shape. Near the break there are grooves on the central ridge forming an arrow pointing towards the tip. These are on both sides. These mouldings are quite unusual. Similar decoration is known on some Bronze Age and Iron Age transition pieces. …
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-ADCF83
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment probably of a Late Bronze Age sword which is 22.9mm long, 19.3mm wide and 3.5mm thick. The blade is lentoid in section tapering to a point at each side. Both ends are broken and the damage is not recent. The fragment is possibly part of the Wilburton or Ewart Park metalwork assemblage tradition and dates to c. 1150-800BC but the fragment is too small to be certain of this. The surface is slightly pitted and has a light brown patina.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2008
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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