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Record ID: KENT3389
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron linch pin (Group III vase headed), 110mm in length, with decorated, cast terminals of copper alloy. The terminals are 49mm apart, set at each end of a slightly bent, tapering, square-sectioned iron shank, 11 to 9mm across. A horizontal perforation, 5mm in diameter occurs at the base of the upper terminal but this is now largely blocked by iron corrosion. The top of the 21mm diameter upper terminal is decorated by raised motifs comprising (?), with two areas of basketry hatching (Celtic art Style V) executed in the wax before casting. Two undecorated areas between the motifs take t…
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT THANINGTON WITHOUT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F5C55E
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete iron and copper alloy linch pin dating to the period c. 100 BC - AD 100. The head is missing. The iron shank is now heavily corroded, the original cross-section indiscernible. The base of the shank fits into a socketed copper alloy foot. Sub-conical in form, traces of a moulded collar are visible at the mouth of the socket under a layer of iron corrosion. Just below, on one side only is a moulded relief ring-and-dot motif. The foot curves along its length and expands into a discoidal terminal. The face of the terminal exhibits a raised circular border expanding in width from…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: WMID6016
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The linch pin terminal is cast copper alloy. The external face is a circular 'disc' with rounded edges. The surface of this 'disc' has a sub-circular central hole, through which the iron pin is visible. The 'disc' is sub-circular due to a flattening of the edges on opposite edges. This flattening occurred in antquity as the patina covers these areas. Protruding from the reverse of this 'disc' there is an integral narrowed, circular sectioned cylinder which is most narrow in the centre. On the side of this cylinder there is a circular ?indentation or hole…
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEREFORD AND WORCESTER LEIGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-3EFF7D
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete iron Socketed Axe of early Iron Age date (800-600 BC). The object is of the late Bronze Age form and is wedge-shaped with a rectangular socket aperture (inner dimensions: 57.55mm 39.73mm) and 89.31mm in depth. The upper face retains shallow loop. The body of the axe is generally rectangular in profile, with an expanded, crescentic blade. The iron is dry and stable, but flaking and requires conservation. Length: 166.05mm, Depth: 89.31mm, Width: 86.60mm, Thickness: 56.46mm, Weight: 1,390.0g
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: NLM-BAA288
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheathing an iron core, unidentified object fragment. Source record suggests Late Bronze Age to Late Iron Age date; the accompanying database gives this as Late Iron Agel. Suggested date: Late Iron Age 100BC-AD100. Length: 41.2mm, Width: 30.9mm, Thickness: 8.6mm, Weight: 21.69gms
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-50F594
Object type: LATCHLIFTER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron latchlifter dating from the Iron Age to the Early Medieval period, c. 100 BC - AD 800. Wrought iron stem with a projecting suspension hook at one end, and a plain bit formed by a projecting bar at a right-angle to the stem. The ferrous material is very corroded and damaged. The iron has a brown patina. The latchlifter is 126.16mm in length, 29.66mm at its widest with a stem diameter of 6.58mm. It weighs 17.69g. The bit is not of a complex form for use with a barrel padlock, so a use as a latch-lifter is suggested. The term ‘latchli…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-BB4329
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron socketed axe head. A complete iron Socketed Axe of early Iron Age date (800-600 BC). The object is of the late Iron Age form, wedge-shaped with a rectangular socket aperture. The upper face retains shallow but broad loop. The body of the axe is generally rectangular in profile, flaring roughly symmetrically to the crescent shaped blade. The blade does come to a point but is thickened somewhat in places by the effects of corroison.One side seems to have been ti at some time causing an oval indentation in the form across the width of the axe, in front o…
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Appleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-607104
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete iron socketed axehead dating to the early Iron Age (c. 800-600 BC). The axehead is sub-rectangular in plan with a socketed mouth, crescentic cutting blade and incomplete single side loop. The mouth is oval in shape and has a prominent collar around the edge. The mouth measures legnth: 46.5mm; width 38.1mm; thickness 4.8mm. The main body has a consistent width the mouth and presents a single complete side loop at one side. The body of the underside of the loop is open to the socket. From the base of the body the blade begins to expand in width and narrow in thickne…
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-237223
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron socketed axehead partly covered and filled with chalky gravel concretions. Length 152mm, width 58mm, thickness 38mm, aperture of side-loop 18mm x 5mm. Such objects are characteristic of the Hallstatt culture of the earliest Iron Age of central Europe. They are rarely found in the British Isles, with examples from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory, H. Guide Catalogue of the Early Iron Age Collections 1976, 20) and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe, B. Iron Age Communities in Britain 1974, fig.14:2.5). c.800 - c.600 BC
Created on: Friday 29th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF5E45
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Iron Age iron socketed axehead, complete apart from a small piece of the cutting edge. Some detail is obscured by corrosion, but a considerable amount of metal remains un-oxidised. Length 90mm. Width 53mm. Thickness 34mm. Weight 241g. c.800 - c.600 BC Iron socketed axes are rarely found in the British Isles, with finds from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory 1976, 20), Walthamstow, Essex / Greater London and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe 1974, fig.14:2.4 and 2.5). Those recorded by the PAS include examples from Lincolnshire (NLM-1AD972), South Gloucestershire (GLO-D2…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-54DD16
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron chisel or hatchet-like tool of uncertain date. An incomplete iron possible tanged chisel dating to the Iron Age- Post Medieval period  The chisel is broken at the top of the blade and is missing most of the tang. The widening at the top of the blade may suggest a rectangular collar. The blade is broadly triangular, flaring out to a rounded sharpened edge. The chisel has a tang with a rectangular cross section at the base but which is broken off at a point where it has a circular section . At the junction with the blade is an asymmetrical bulge; the blade is 7…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: LIN-22A18C
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron axehead  probably of medieval to post medieval date. It is sub-triangular in shape and in longitudinal section. From the thicker blunt end it becomes thinner and flares outwards to the blade end.  At the blade end the edge has been chamfered to create a narrow sharp edge.  The object is red brown in colour. It has rusted and corroded. On one long edge the layers of the metal can be seen. On one face there is a circular depression probably caused by the metal flaking off. Dimensions: Length 116.60 mm. width…
Created on: Friday 4th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Holton-le-Moor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-0AFFDA
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Iron Age socketed axehead, dating to c 800-600 BC. It is of Late Bronze Age form, wedge shaped with an almost vertical cutting edge, which has rounded corners splaying outwards slightly. The upper and lower edges of the axehead are parallel, the mouth sub rectangular (with rounded corners) and the socket echoes this. The whole item is heavily corroded with a reddish brown and darker brown to black crust, flaking in places. It is uncertain whether there is a moulding at the mouth. The loop is almost central on one edge and there is a groove in its arc, as if to hold th…
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 11th June 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-1822F3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Wrought iron socketed axehead length 130mm, width 85mm, thickness 57mm, weight 900g. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular (22mm wide, 40mm high) and narrows as it enters the body of the axehead to a depth of 50mm. The body is sub-rectangular in side view, with a loop on one side centered 50mm from the socket. Viewed from above the loop is placed off-centre, and the axehead narrows evenly towards the blade giving a wedge-shaped profile. The blade is 60mm wide and straight in cross-section. The artefact is complete apart from a rounded section missing from one edge of the blade; i…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Last updated: Saturday 30th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-DA8631
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Earliest to Early Iron Age iron socketed axehead, probably of 8th to 5th century BC date The axehead is symmetrical in form and is incomplete, missing part of one face and side and is a small example (with a length of 88.6mm and a weight of 116.5g). The mouth appears to have been sub-rectangular (with a surviving external width and depth of 32mm and 27mm respectively and 3mm - 11mm thick). The socket (56mm deep) is also of rectangular or sub-rectangular form. There is a suggestion of a gentle out-turning at the mouth but no clear evidence for a collar. The sides are moderately strai…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 30th April 2022
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Record ID: GLO-D2F478
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Wrought iron socketed axehead length 98mm, width 37mm, thickness 25mm, weight 121g. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular (15mm wide, 25mm high) and narrows towards the top. The body gradually narrows towards the blade, 18mm from the mouth of the socket is a loop that has been cut into the main body of the axe, there edges of this loop have been rolled over slightly where it have been forced open when the metal was still hot. The blade 33mm wide, .1mm thick is expanded and is has a low curve in cross-section, there is a small section missing from the bottom of the blade but other…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2009
Last updated: Saturday 30th April 2022
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Record ID: DYFED-CB2D9F
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete spearhead with the basal part of the socket missing along with part of the blade on one side. The base of the circular socket is also missing. The blade is flat and leaf-shaped, and has a central rounded midrib that continues for over half its length. The form of the socket and other details have been obscured by the recent treatment of the spearhead, but the leaf-shape and central rib suggests a date of Iron Age, Roman or Early Medieval.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llandybie', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-CCEF56
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age short sword with copper alloy scabbard elements dating from 100 BC - 43 AD. The sword is corroded and missing part of the tang. Parts of the scabbard remain. The chape frame is a type a2 lobed chape end. The scabbard was approximately mm long, represented by a copper alloy plate at the mouth a copper alloy chape; the main body of the scabbard may have been of an organic material either leather or wood. The short copper alloy front plate is mm wide and mm deep, with a low campanulate mouth (about mm) high. The reverse of the plate has a iron rivet. The mouth desi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DEDAF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly an iron pin from an Iron Age or Roman Nauheim Derivative bow brooch. It has a circular section and is bent round in a smooth arc.
Created on: Sunday 16th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-4B0202
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron brooch dating from the Late Iron to Early Roman period. The brooch is in the one-piece Colchester style, missing the pin and spring and the foot including the catchplate. Although iron brooches are unusual there are a number recorded on this database. First century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cherwell district', grid reference and parish protected.