Record ID: LANCUM-0433B7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
A small cast copper-alloy socketed side-looped spearhead of Acton Park 2, Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV, probably dating from the early Middle Bronze Age, c. 1600-1400BC. The spearhead is complete, the blade and socket undamaged with a rough chocolate-brown patina showing hardly any sign of decay. The find has not been cleaned and there are still patches of soil/dirt adhering to the surface and inside the socket. The spearhead is small and stumpy, with two flattened side loops and a short, kite-shaped blade. The casting seams along the sides have been carefully removed and smoothed d…
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulverston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5B06F4
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy socketed and side looped spearhead. It is similar to Taunton phase spearheads. There is a 6mm long scar across the shaft just below blade from an edged tool or weapon. The main body is hollow, forming a socket for the insertion of a shaft, with two flattened loops at the sides. The blade is composed of two wings, emerging either side of the central rib and having a concave lozenge-shaped cross section. The central rib runs all the way to the point of the head. The blade edges are bevelled bifacially. Length of blade section is 78mm. Approximate socket dep…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Garstang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4A2E2C
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy developed side-looped spearhead with lozenge-shaped side plates, a Type 6B, Acton to Taunton Metalwork Assemblage (ref: Davis 2012, nos. 280-317). There is some deformation to edge 15mm from point. The rib width is 10mm at the distal junction with the blade edges. Blades are 28mm long, 4mm wide, and 1mm thick. The flattened loops are 16 and 17mm long, 7mm wide, and 2.5mm high. Approximate depth of the socket cavity is 56mm. Dates to between c1500 and c1200 BC. Length 83mm, width 19mm, diameter 18mm, and weight 46.46g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gisburn', 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-5E3137
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object. It appears to be a miscast, or rejected, socketed Bronze Age axehead, though it may possibly be a very oddly shaped piece of casting waste. The outer surfaces display a patination suggestive of excessive heat. The axe may have been removed from the cast before it was properly cooled, or the cast broke due to overheating, or an inexpert attempt may have been made to repair a damaged axe. The length is 100mm, the width is 36mm, and the thickness is 28mm. Dates from between c1150 & c800 BC.
Created on: Monday 10th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lincoln', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-344145
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Blade fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe dating from the Late Bronze Age, that is c.1000 to c.800 BC. The blade fragment is in good condition, but due to its size it is difficult to ascertain a type. It is most likely from a plain or ribbed socketed axe, which were common tools throughout Britain in the later Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age. The fragment displays flattened casting seams and there are work and resharpening marks along the cutting edge suggesting that it was prepared, finished and repeated used and resharpened prior to destruction and deposition. Le…
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Aspatria', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-1F1706
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy blade fragment of a socketed axe dating from the Late Bronze Age, c. 1000-800BC. Only the very lowest part of the body and blade section survive. The surfaces are pitted and worn, but the casting seams along the sides were flattened and there is wear and resharpening marks along the blade section suggesting that it was repeatedly used and resharpened during use. It was, in all likelihood, plain or decorated with just ribs, but the type is uncertain: the fragment is too small to be certain. The wall on one side appears to be thicker that on the other suggesting that t…
Created on: Friday 16th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-1F3294
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Extremely worn fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe dating from c. 1100-800BC. It is a blade fragment, but very little of the cutting edge and lower body of the axe survive. All surfaces re extremely worn and no further identification is possible unfortunately. It is likely that it is an axehead that was part of the Late Bronze Age Wilburton or Ewart Park metalwork assemblages. Length is 40mm, width 20mm, thickness 8mm, and weight 17.77g.
Created on: Friday 16th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-59D5C5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed looped tool, probably an axehead or chisel. The object is not of robust construction and may well have been designed for some lighter task such as trimming, as opposed to felling. The only decoration is a 2mm wide transverse raised collar 17mm from the socketed end. The mouth of the socket is sub-circular and the internal diameter is 22mm. Loop length 20mm externally, 7.9mm internally. Ewart Park phase attribution so dates to between c900 to c750 BC. Length 95mm, width 46mm, thickness 27mm, and weight 91.85g. The axe is similar, but of a mor…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-317235
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed looped axehead fragment. Only the bottom part with the cutting edge remains. The fragment has no discernible decoration. Ewart Park phase attribution, probably a South Eastern type. Dates to between c900 to c750 BC. The length is 35mm, width 35mm, thickness 13mm, and the weight 44.56g.
Created on: Friday 9th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-1E7F96
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to late Bronze Age multi tool fabricated from a mid/dark grey flint secondary waste flake with light grey inclusions. It has extensive retouch to the edges. The longer worked edge has been notched and produced a saw like edge. The other worked edge was probably a scraper and/or knife. Dates to between c2350 to c800 BC. Length 58mm, width 26mm, thickness 11mm, weight 15.2g.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2CA0A7
Object type: SERRATED IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid to late Bronze Age serrated implement, and possible knife/scraper, formed on a tertiary flake of pale honey flint with large cream inclusions. Serrated edges have been formed by short, semi-parallel, abrupt retouch to the distal/mesal edges and the oblique distal end edge. The height of the dorsal ridge has been reduced and the proximal end thinned by invasive, scaled, low-angled retouch. Dates from c1600 to c800 BC. The length is 41mm, width 17mm, thickness 8mm, and the weight is 4.60g.
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Asby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3296C5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early to Mid Bronze Age grey chert thumbnail scraper from a tertiary flake. Abrupt retouch to the entire working edge. Dates to between c2350 and c1000 BC. The length is 22mm, width 20mm, thickness 9mm.
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2013
Last updated: Saturday 15th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Widdop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-04DF03
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A reddish flint 'pot lid' with cortex. Possibly modified to perform as a scraper by flaking from the ventral side along the top edge (as it appears in the image). Possibly Bronze Age (c2100 to c800 BC) but impossible to date accurately. See also LANCUM-053743 & LANCUM-052650. The length is 27mm, width 22mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 3.01g.
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beverley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-052650
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pale cream to white flint 'pot lid' with cortex. Possibly modified to perform as a scraper by flaking along the bottom edge (as it appears in the image). There has also been an attempt to flatten the natural bulge (produced when the pot lid fracture occurred) on the dorsal side. Possibly Bronze Age (c2100 to c800 BC) but impossible to date accurately. See also LANCUM-04DF03 & LANCUM-053743 The length is 21mm, width 19mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.77g.
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beverley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BDF943
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nearly triangular iron stained white flint 'pot lid' with cortex. Modified to perform as a scraper by flaking along two edges. The third edge has been created by one large removal, possibly natural. Possibly Neolithic or Bronze Age (c3500 to c800 BC) but impossible to date accurately. The length is 17m, and the width 21mm.
Created on: Sunday 20th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodmansey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-336773
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age worked sub circular white flint, probably a scraper, or possibly debitage. The crude working is typical of later Bronze Age lithics. There is iron staining on the flint. Dates between c1500 and c800 BC. The length is 27mm, the width is 26mm, and the weight is 8.18g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-09E8E2
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid to late Bronze Age scraper fabricated on a high quality dark grey/green flint secondary flake. It has extensive retouch, and is probably a tool refashioned as a scraper after it broke. Dates to between c1600 to c800 BC. Length 40mm, width 29mm, thickness 14mm, weight 15.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-52C9A7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age mid grey chert thumbnail scraper from a heavily worked tertiary flake. The entire surface is worked. There is retouch to the dorsal side, and intensive retouch to the working edge.The high quality chert is more akin to that used further east and in the western Dales than in the west Pennines. Dates to between c2700 and c 1600 BC. Length 23mm, width 19mm, thickness 8mm, weight 5.2g.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Saturday 15th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Widdop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-535AA7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to mid Bronze Age heat effected grey chert or flint, end scraper. The crazing over its surface results from heating after knapping/use. Dates to between c2700 and c1000 BC. Length 24mm, width 16mm, thickness 8mm, weight 2.4g.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 13th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Widdop', grid reference and parish protected.