Record ID: LANCUM-C6A25A
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably an incomplete Middle Bronze Age or early Late Bronze Age dagger or dirk (probably the former). It is plain and in fair condition with a smooth patina and only some evidence for corrosion and bronze disease. The hilt section is incomplete but it was likely that the organic holt was attached with two (or potentially four) rivets, now missing. There was a slightly raised mid-rib and the edges re bevelled, giving the blade a flat-lozenge cross-section. The section immediately past the hilt section does not draw in, so the identification as a dagger appears more likely. However, a…
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Barnoldswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CCB4F2
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy developed flat axehead dating from the Early Bronze Age, c. 2000-1700BC. The axehead is part of the Aylesford metalworking assemblage and parallels can be found amongst Types Scrabo Hill and Bandon (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, nos 334-374). The axehead is in fair condition with one face showing a heavily pitted the surface whilst the other face remains in better condition. It has almost parallel sides with a very slight stop-ridge (hence 'developed' flat axe) across the centre of the body. Below the slight stop ridge is a 'rain pattern' of incised lines which is much m…
Created on: Friday 18th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wigton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E5B75
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to early Iron Age grey flint tertiary debitage. Sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch to possible side scraper on half of one side with a possible burin at the end. Dates from c2350 to c400 BC. The length is 43mm, width 11mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 3.16g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E5995
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age to early Iron Age grey flint secondary debitage with sub-parallel abrupt to semi-acute retouch to scrapers on two sides. Dates from c2350 to c400 BC. The length is 18mm, width 16mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 1.20g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E569A
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Mesolithic to late Bronze Age secondary grey flint debitage, or possible multidirectional core. There is a very small area of retouch, possibly to prepare the piece for another removal. Dates from c7000 to c800 BC. The length is 24mm, width 16mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 2.75g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-60E4F4
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy socketed spearhead with side loops dating from c1400 to c1250 BC, part of the Taunton metalworking assemblage. The main body is hollow, forming a socket for the insertion of a shaft, with two open loops at the sides. The blade is flame shaped, composed of two wings, emerging either side of the central rib. The central rib runs all the way to the point of the head. A low ridge runs longitudinally along the apex the of much rib on both faces. The blade edges and tip are damaged as is the rim of the socket. Length of blade section is 82mm. Socket diameter at…
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Garstang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-95C5CC
Object type: FLESH HOOK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Mid Bronze Age to Early Iron Age copper alloy socketed and pegged flesh hook. The hook fits broadly into Needham & Bowman Class 2. It consists of a 90mm long cone shaped hollow body with circular perforations either side near the top that served as peg holes. Socket diameter is 22mm. Near the base of the body there are two opposing projections in line with the peg holes. The projections terminate in vertical, almost flat, discs. At the apex of the body the shank of the hook has been attached. This shaft or shank is lozenge or diamond shaped, or sub-square, in section. From the socket…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Grassington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0B0E4D
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy flat axe dating from the Early Bronze Age that is c. 2500-2400BC. It is 30mm wide at the butt and flares gently to 60mm at the crescentic cutting edge. It is undecorated with a smooth obverse and reverse; there is no sign of side flanges or a stop ridge. Broad, square butt and deep cutting edge. Needham's Class 2A, Type Burley Camp (Needham 2017, 46). Needham, S. 2017. The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe-heads from Southern Britain. Oxford: Access ARchaeology. Length 110 mm, width 60mm, thickness 10mm, and weig…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Friday 26th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-07A60C
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Middle Bronze Age to early Late Bronze Age copper alloy shield-pattern palstave axe head, Arreton/Acton Park Metalwork Assemblage (Burgess and Schmidt 1981, nos. 777-785). The butt is quite boxy but the stop and side flanges appear fused. One side of the cutting blade (the innermost side in the image) is more reduced than the other side. It has not been possible to determine wether this is due wear or damage. There is also some damage to the butt. The axe head dates from c1600 to c1200 BC. The length is 165mm, width 52mm, and the weight is 385g.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Bamber Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0BC83F
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Early to Middle Bronze Age copper alloy long-flanged axe head of Type Balbirnie or Arreton (Schmidt and Burgess 2981, nos. 407A-425) Arreton Metalwork Assemblage. The flanges run from the butt along the edges of the axehead to the point where it starts to flare to the curved cutting edge. One side of the cutting blade (the outermost side in the image) has worn more than the other side. Dates from c1700 to c1500 BC. The length is 96mm, width 47mm, thickness 16mm, and the weight is 154g.
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2020
Last updated: Sunday 27th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wigton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C72D27
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint D shaped 'thumbnail' scraper. The scraper is sub square in plan and fabricated on a tertiary flake of pale grey flint with white inclusions, There is no noticeable patination.There are three principle phases of working. In the first it has been roughed out with a series of invasive removals to the dorsal. The second phase consisted of shaping the distal edge with a series of scaled semi abrupt removals. Looking down on the dorsal from the proximal end, the third phase consists of three areas of retouch. The left mesal has minute (all less then …
Created on: Sunday 19th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 6th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Colne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B8ABA9
Object type: BURIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age chert burin. It has been formed on a secondary piece of black 'Marles' chert, probably a worked out core. The retained limestone cortex on the proximal end exhibits quite a high degree of wear, and there is wear gloss on most of the chert. There is sub-parallel, semi-short, abrupt retouch to the shorter of the tool's mesals. This is probably to make the toll more ergonomic but would also have created a small but functional side scraper. The shoulder of this mesal has been reduced with a series of removals at its distal end. The longer mesal has short, …
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B82E7C
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age secondary black 'Marles' chert bi-polar core. Overall it is a sub-rectangular in plan and section, sub-triangular in profile. There are removal scars on most of its surface, but the whole of one side has retained cortex. The flake scars are mostly quite broad and show evidence of removal with a hard hammer. Dates to between c2700 and c1000 BC. Length 27mm, width 18mm, thickness 15mm, mass 8.62g Found a few miles from the similar LANCUM-2F7F05
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B819FB
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age agate D shaped 'thumbnail' scraper. The scraper is sub square in plan and fabricated on a tertiary flake of orange agate with transparent banding. There is no noticeable patination. Retouched on most edges. Very few worked agate tools have been discovered on the western side of the Pennines. The scraper, or possibly the raw stone as either a core or nodule, probably originated in Northumberland where agate is more widely utilised to fabricate lithic utensils. It could be seen as a proof of cross Pennine trade. Dates to between c2700 and c1600 BC. …
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Ribchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B461AB
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oldham
Workflow stage: Published
Late Middle Bronze Age to early Late Bronze Age copper alloy rapier of Type Appleby (Burgess and Gerloff 1981, nos. 631-644), possibly Variant Weybridge or Erith as its butt is oval rather than trapezoidal, probably Penard Metalwork Assemblage. The central rivet is probably a later addition for secondary fastening of a later hilt. It does not look original and this impression is strengthened by the asymmetric notches to the sides of the rivet hole. The blade does not have a midrib but does have edges bevelled to make sharpening easier. Thickness is 2mm at the break. There is no eviden…
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Shaw', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B44DAD
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age Unclassified Developed flat axe with the beginning of a stop ridge, but not developed stop ridge, Aylesford Metalwork Assemblage (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, nos. 381-394). The thickest point (8mm) is a flat ridge 43mm from the butt. The axe is 15mm wide at this point. There are slight flanges 0.3mm at the highest. The axehead's sides are undecorated but the main faces are decorated with a series of diagonal lines, most approximately 4mm long, that intersect to form chevrons and broken horizontal bands of zigzags below the ridge and towards the cutting edge. Between …
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Barnoldswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B42FEC
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oldham
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age copper alloy plain developed flat axe of Type Swinton or Bandon Aylesford Metalwork Assemblage (). The body width is 24mm and flares to 41mm at the blade. Maximum height of flanges is 2mm, the transverse ridge is 40mm from the butt and less than 1mm high. Dates from c1900 to c1700 BC. Length 97mm, width 41mm, thickness 12mm, and weight 118.1g.
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 26th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Oldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-87D3FB
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a Bronze Age to Post Medieval casting jet but possibly a Medieval copper alloy miscast seal matrix. Probably dates to between c2350 BC and c1750 AD. The length is 32mm, width 28mm, height 23mm, and the weight is 35.64g. It may well be damaged or incomplete.
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2020
Last updated: Monday 25th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gisburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B22C4D
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy winged axe head, probably Acton Park/Taunton Metalwork Assemblage. Unusually, it is heavily worn, especially the blade, and where it would have been hafted the surface remains intact with a gloss from wear. The wings on one side have been largely lost. The axe head is undecorated. It dates to between c1550 and c1250 BC. The length is 90mm, width 39mm, thickness 31mm, and the weight is 175.48g.
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-732DAB
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a Bronze Age turquoise green/blue faience annular bead. It is irregularly shaped, sub circular in plan and in section. There is no apparent decoration. To make it the the molten faience would have been twisted and rolled around a rod that would then be withdrawn leaving the central hole. Elizabeth Foulds says that the bead is not distinctly Iron Age or Roman but if it is faience then Bronze Age is a possibility. If faience it may well have been manufactured in Egypt as the bead has a colour and surface texture typical of that area's beads and ushabti figurines. Though not pos…
Created on: Monday 28th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cottam', grid reference and parish protected.