Record ID: BH-E9F0E9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy object, possibly a button dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age. The object is circular in shape and hemispherical in section. The upper surface is decorated with two concentric, ring-shaped cells, which are filled with remnants of a white substance. At the centre, there is a raised spherical knop. The underside of the object is roughly finished, plain, with a slight circumferential rib. A small hemispherical-section loop extends from the underside with a 2mm gap. The object measures 22mm in diameter and a maximum of 8mm in thickness. A similar example is recorded …
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2019
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Record ID: BH-E31A4B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy unidentified object of a type usually referred to as 'moustache-like' or 'moustache shaped'.The object possesses a body which is hollow, asymmetrical and sub-cylindrical in section, tapering at one end, to a square-section terminal and at the other to a circular opening. The outer surface of the object is decorated with vertical ribs and grooves and there are two small perforations in the body of, close to the opening. The object measures 18mm in length and a maximum of 11mm in diameter. It weighs 7.79g. These objects are thought to date from the M…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2017
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Record ID: NCL-A9DD83
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy Late Bronze Age socketed axe of South Eastern type [Type A]. The mouth of the axe is subsquare and there is a double mouth moulding. Around the mouth of the axe there are sprues. The body of the axe is rectangular, with straight sides, which then flare into the lower blade slightly expanded cutting edge. The cutting edge is intact and there are slight marks along the blade edge where it has been resharpened. The axe has a triangular profile. The side loop is semicircular with a semicircular perforation. A prominent casting seam runs down either side of the ax…
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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