Record ID: WILT-F34A7B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possibly Middle Bronze Age copper alloy blade, perhaps a rapier dating to c. 1400-1100 BC. Only a very small part survives, a sub rectangular piece with early breaks at both ends. It both tapers and narrows along its length. It has a mid green patina. A small triangular section of the outer surface is missing on one side, but this is probably damage or decay, not decoration. Dimensions:   20.8mm in length; 16.1mm in width tapering to 14.7mm; 3.1mm thick at the wider break; 2.4mm at the narrower end; 5.73g in weight
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-BCA442
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Bronze Age to Medieval copper-alloy awl 1250 BC-AD 1500. The find consists of four straight sides, each one plain, and rectangular in section. Its midpoint is bulbous and the awl tapers inwards terminating in rounded points at each end. Plain copper alloy awls are hard to date precisely but examples of this form are thought to have been introduced in the Bronze Age and they have barely changed throughout the centuries. Length: 53.6mm width: 4.0mm weight: 4.40g Similar examples on the PAS database include: SF-5623C1, NARC-643B92.
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd November 2021
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Record ID: WILT-7F60F4
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Middle to Late Bronze Age copper alloy sickle, probably dating to c. 1500-800 BC. The fragment consists of a sub-triangular, curving fragment of blade, with a central mid-rib tapering into the edges in cross section. The fragment is truncated by an old break, with all edges being abraded. Length: 20.3mm; width: 15.6mm; thickness: 2.1mm; weight: 1.83g. cf. a similar, but more complete sickle found at Edington Burtle (Pearce 1983: 512-513, no. 648). The fragment is too incomplete to be further classified.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 20th February 2021
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Record ID: WILT-337985
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead fragment, probably dating to c. 1100-800 BC. A sub-rectangular fragment with a sub-triangular cross section, comprising of part of the cutting edge and internal socket end. Only one wall survives, leaving the socket open on one face, with all breaks being old. Dimensions: 28.8mm in length; 18mm in width; 6.31g in weight. Although the fragment is too small to be certain, it probably fits into the Ewart park or Wilburton metal working groups, giving it a date of 1100-800 BC (Schmidt & Burgess 1981: 119).
Created on: Monday 7th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: WILT-5213F9
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy flat axehead of the Early Bronze Age, dating to the period of 2200-1500 BC. It measures 78.36mm in length and 48.24mm in width. It is 10.21mm thick and weighs 159.11g. The axehead is broadly trapezoidal in shape. Its thickest point is in the middle, from where it tapers to the sides. The blade gradually widens towards the cutting edge edge. Both ends curve outwards slightly.
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
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Record ID: WILT-30BB4B
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possible horse harness ring of Bronze Age to Roman date (c. 1500 BC - AD 410). The ring measures 16.76mm in diameter (internal diameter 8.76mm), is 4.31mm thick and weighs 4.21 grams. It is circular in shape. The interior surface is smooth and shows evidence of wear. The ring is copper alloy with a high tin content giving the ring a silvery appearance. Similar rings have been discovered in a number of Bronze Age hoards and have been suggested as horse harness fittings, as being part of the handles of a sheet-metal cauldron of Class A1 (Type Tul-na-cross) and Class B1…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B03F7B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Bronze Age blade, dating to the period 1500-1150 BC. It measures 38.89mm in length and 17.8mm in width. It is 2.89mm thick and weighs 7.86g. The patina is smooth, the colour is dark green and brown. The blade is lozengeform in cross section.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
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Record ID: WILT-A49B7A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A late Bronze Age faceted socketed axe of Meldreth type, Ewart Park metalwork assemblage, c1000-800BC. The axe is gently flaring to the curved cutting edge. There are ridges along the faceted sides of the axe. The casting ridges are visible. At the socket end of the axe is a narrow ridge and a deep convex collar. The collar is broken at a point. The socket is circular and there are slight inward projections set opposite on the edge, probably sprues from the casting process. At one side below the collar is a side loop. The socketed axe measures 101.93mm in length, 50.59mm wide (bla…
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2017
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Record ID: WILT-048851
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy rapier of Middle to Late Bronze Age date, c BC1400-800. The fragment consists of 46.41mm length of blade. It is damaged on both edges and there are early breaks at each end. It is 11.85mm in width at one end and 12.70mm at the other. The rapier blade is nearly flat in cross section (2.13mm thick) but there is some tapering towards the edges so it has a slightly elliptical cross section. It weighs 6.25g. It has a dark green patina and a heavily pitted surface.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Record ID: WILT-004CC7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy axe head or palstave of Bronze Age date (1500-1100 BC). Only a fragment of the blade tip survives. The fragment is broadly triangular and triangular in cross section. The fragment tapers but wides from the blade edge to the break (from 45.95mm to 43.1mm and from 2.45mm to 6.25mm thick). The object has a dark green patina. Its weight is 15.40g.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FF82BC
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nearly complete cast copper-alloy socketed gouge dating to c. 1000 to 650 BC. It is 47.91mm in length and 13.40mm in diameter at its greatest. The socketed end of the gouge has a circular section and an internal diameter of 10.43 mm. The gouge tapers down its length into a C-shaped section, with a furrow widening to c9mm down the length starting c12.50mm from the open socket. Casting seams can be seen on both sides of the gouge. A gouge of this type would have been used for woodworking. Similar examples are recorded on this database including one from Dorset (DOR-FD5EF4),…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2016
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8171F0
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost-complete copper alloy Bronze Age (1275-1140 BC) flat arrowhead.Cast in a two piece mould, this arrowhead is barbed and tanged in form, with the two sides forming an angle of approximately 25-30 degrees. It is 26.85mm long, 19.2mm wide from barb to barb, 2.00mm thick and weighs 2.54g. The tang is incomplete and measures c.4.55mm long, 5.45mm wide and 1.55mm thick. The arrowhead has a very low mid ridge, giving the object a lozengiform cross-section. There is only one bronze arrowhead from a secure Bronze Age context in Britain and that was in the Penard hoard, first report…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-46374E
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper alloy palstave of Middle Bronze Age dating to the period c.1500-1300 BC. The palstave has a U-shaped pattern below the stop ridge, and raised flange facets. The blade of the palstave is sub-triangular in plan, with convex expanding sides and convex damaged cutting edge. In profile the blade is sub-triangular with the widest section being after the stop ridge. The blade, from the cutting edge to the stop ridge, is 66.42mm in length and 22.86 thick, measured close to the stop ridge. The cutting edge is 41.60mm in width and 2.72mm thick. Beneath the s…
Created on: Monday 29th February 2016
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2016
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Record ID: WILT-BCBB58
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age chisel fragment measuring 33.35mm in length and 45.6mm wide. The chisel is incomplete only the blade survives. The blade thins from 4.9mm thick to 1.5mm thick at the cutting edge, the break at the top of the blade is broadly oval in cross section. The blade expands from the break towards the cutting edge. The chisel weighs 26.15 grams.
Created on: Monday 12th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2015
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Record ID: WILT-B88605
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Middle Bronze Age copper-alloy palstave (c 1600 BC - c 1001 BC). This blade fragment is rectangular in cross section with convex sides. From the old transverse break at the top, the sides flare evenly to the cutting edge which is evenly curved in plan. No casting seams or decoration are present. This palstave has a green patina.. Length of remains of blade: 43.68mm; width at widest point near cutting edge 26.58: width at broken end 18.90mm; thickness at broken end 8.75mm narrowing to thickness at cutting edge of 2.65mm. Weight: 37.31g.
Created on: Monday 12th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2015
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Record ID: WILT-6416A6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe. The fragment is J-shaped in section and roughly rectangular in plan. There is a clear mould line evident. On the inner edge of the lip there is a possible sprue from casting waste. The fragment has a grey green patina. The length is 24.40mm, maximum width is 33.77mm, maximum thickness of the lip 5.53mm. The weight is 13.54 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: WILT-8CBFA4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of two incomplete Middle Bronze Age rapiers dating to the period c. 1400 - 1100 BC. Both blades best described as rapiers and best placed in Burgess & Gerloff's 'Group III' (Burgess, C.B., and Gerloff, S. 1981. The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland. Prähistorische Bronzefunde IV, 7 Beck: Munich). The rapiers will be discussed as rapier A and rapier B. Rapier A consists of six fragments of the blade along with six rivets from the handle. One of the breaks between two of the fragments may be deliberate, the other breaks appear to have occured during dep…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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