Record ID: LANCUM-EA582D
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of a copper alloy axehead. It is triangular in section, being a blunt point on one side, and crescent shaped, but not symmetrical across its break, being more pointed at one end than the other. The blade is not facetted. There is some loss of material from the faces. Along the broken face there is a suggestion that it might have been hollow and therefore a section of socketed axehead, but this is not definitive. Dimensions: It is 67mm long, 21mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weigh 56.83g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3F1C46
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged arrowhead, formed by knapping. It is made of a pale semi- transluscent flint with some inclusions. It is slightly flatter on one side then the other, and the tip of one of the barbs is missing. Having been found near a beach it has been worn so no sharp edge remains, but the shape is consistent. Arrowheads such as these, see also NMGW-24C12C, are classified as Sutton Type B (Green 1980) are commonly associated with the emergence of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain. Dimensions: It is 21mm long and 16mm wide, it weighs 1.53g
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-9DD279
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age flanged axe head. The blade widens from the base but does not recurve, it has a rib part way along the length, extending about half way. The flanged area is oval, with quite deep flanges. The fixing hook survives.  Dimensions: 155mm long and 48mm wide, it is 28mm thick
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9D8817
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age flat axe head. It is a trapezoidal in shape,widening towards the blade end. The blade is curved. There is no apparent stop feature. The side profile is slightly lenticular, with bevelled edges, which probably assigns this to Needhams Class 2. Further, the gently curved sides may suggest that it is Sub-class 2C. There is little corrosion, the object has an even brown patina Dimensions: 123mm long and 73mm wide, it is 7mm thick
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Torrisholme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8A2374
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy axe, a shield-pattern palstave similar to the Acton Park phase metalwork. The stop is approximately half way along the flange, and the flange is curved at the bade end. The blade tips recurve. The flange sides are diamond shaped, tere is some damage to the flange sides. It dates to the middle Bronze Age, 1500-1140 BC Dimensions: 130mm long and 40mm wide, it weighs 355g
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B21176
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but degraded flanged copper alloy flat axe head. It is approximately rectangular, widening along its length towards the blade. The blade flares out to the side. In profile the axe is lenticular, wide in the centre. There is a faint suggestion of parallel lines decorating the object in the top half towards the blade. Also faint are traces of low flanges having been present at one time.The face are worn and degraded, and some of the metal is now missing as a result, especially on one side of the blade, which may also be the reason that the flanges are barely discernible. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cantsfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B6171
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze age spearhead in two pieces. The spear is triangular, but slopes downward where it meets the socket. The socket, which is very degraded, is conical in section. The tip of the spear is broken off but still fits the body well, and is certainly from the same spear. The spear head has a central rib which extends down the length to the socket, and either side of this the body is proud of the blade sides and forms a narrow raised triangle, again terminating the the socket. From approximately two centimetres from the tip - and at the point of the break- there are curved lin…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Euxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B5A09
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze age axe or chisel of copper alloy. It is a truncated triangle in shape, widening towards the blade but maintaining a narrow profile. The sides are therefore largely parallel with a small cutting area. There is no stop bezel present. The profile is lenticular. Similar shaped axe/chisels are seen in Needham (2017, 60) and are dated to the early Bronze Age Dimensions: 93mm long and 30mm wide, 4.5mm thick. It weighs 73g`
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Euxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7F4F55
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy palstave like chisel or axe of Middle Bronze Age date. It has a long blade of rectangular section, which tapers to a curved, narrow cutting edge, triangular in section. This expands beyond the blade either side to finish with a short section. The butt end would have been flat but is slightly damaged and therefore curves inwards slightly. The palstave is deep with prominent flanges either side which form a deep, lenticellular shape. The stop ridges are therefore deep too. No casting seem is apparent. The surfaces of the chisel are ve…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7453CB
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete and well preserved copper alloy side-looped spearhead. It has an elongated leaf shaped blade, with a pronounced mid rib. This ends in a conical socket, widening towards the end. In this are the remains of wood. The side loops are lozenge shaped and are flat to the socket. Similar examples (LANCUM-4A2E2C and SWYOR6000EC) are considered to be Davis Type 6B, Acton to Taunton Metalwork Assemblage (ref: Davis 2012, nos. 280-317), and date to the Middle Bronze Age date, about 1550 BC - 1250 BC  Dimensions: 160mm long and 50mm wide approxima…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-222A49
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy socketed axehead dating to the Late Bronze Age This remaining fragment is rectangular in plan with a triangular side section. It is hollow. The sides are parallel. It is broken near to the blade and therefore no details remain of any ribs, flanges or other features.  The surface is red-brown in colour where the original surface remains (about 30%) but rough green and brown where damage has removed this. The lack of surface detail and side loop make definitive identification difficult. However, given the form of the sides the axehead …
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Waddington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A389B3
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid to Late Bronze Age casting gate or jets.The object consists of two conical sprues or flashes with a casting well that is a figure '8' in plan. Casting jets, such as this, are waste products which form at the top of a two-piece clay mould when the molten metal has filled the object-shaped void below and around the gate piece which had two conical apertures. These sorts wsate material are made uo of re-usable metal, and would have been retained for resmelting. They turn up in base metal hoards of the period and later Suggested date range c1500 to c800 BC, probably after c1000…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Barnoldswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4686D8
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper-alloy leaf shaped razor or knife dating to the Middle Bronze Age c. 2150-1500 BC. The leaf shaped blade is lenticular in cross-section. One surface is almost flat and the other slightly convex possibly with the remains of a midrib. The tang appears  to be rectangular in cross section. The object is covered in pale green corrosion. The tang would have held the original wood, bone or antler handle in place. The cutting edges run the length of each side of the leaf shaped blade but are blunted with slight damage along the s…
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-88A226
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A well preserved copper alloy socketed side-looped spearhead. The head of the spear is leaf-shaped with a pronounced midrib. There are the reamins of two side loops situated approximately halfway along the shaft. The spearhead has a dark brown patina and shows some signs of wear. The following information is taken from WREX-79F899, thanks to Susie White and Dot Boughton for this information: Side-looped spearheads are Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV and date to the early Middle Bronze Age. They are likely to belong to the Acton Park 2, Taunton (Cemmaes) or Penard metalwo…
Created on: Thursday 1st June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gisburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-FDE684
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy flat axe of Early Bronze Age date (c. 2200-1900 BC). This example fits best into the earliest known copper axe and early bronze axes discovered in Britain. These are dated to the Early Bronze Age of metalworking stage II, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 2 circa 2350- 2050 CAL. BC. The flat axe is broadly sub-triangular in plan with a broad, rounded crescent shaped blade. The cutting edge has a width of 77.9mm and a thickness of 5.93mm. It is asymmetrical. From the cutting edge the body of the axe gradually narrows in shape and…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-27DFCC
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Bracelet 1 A complete and well crafted penannular bracelet with a band of thin, ‘C’ section. The section is, however, thickest at the centre, thinner, rounded and highly polished along the edges. The band tapers gently towards the squared off terminals, which are defined by a narrow beading created by turning the metal outward slightly. The bracelet has many dents and scratches visible under magnification. Slight compression of the band around the middle has caused limited distortion and misalignment of the terminals. One of the latter is damaged by a small nick. D…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-115358
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age to early Iron Age secondary grey flint debitage retouched to a side scraper. Three phases of working. Initial phase produced the waste flake. The second phase, and first phase of retouch, incorporated acute, scaled, semi invasive reduction of a ridge on the left side of the dorsal face, and short, semi abrupt, sub parallel retouch on the curved right mesal. This phase of retouch has repatinated. At the distal end of this first phase of retouch, a projection, possibly originally a burin, has been reduced with short, abrupt, parallel retouch. Thi…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C6B737
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy socketed spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date (1500-1100BC). The form corresponds to Davis’ (2012) Group 6 (Developed side-looped) and is most probably a product of the later Arreton, Acton Park, Taunton or early Wilburton metalworking phases (Needham’s (1996) Periods 4-5, c 1500-1100 BC). The remaining portion is 159mm in length, with a socket of 19mm diameter. The blade is leaf shaped and 28mm in width with a pronounced mid rib. There are two small and narrow flanking side loops around half way along the tapering conical socket. …
Created on: Friday 17th December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thurnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E2A68E
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete fragment of a copper-alloy cast flat axehead of Bronze Age date. Only approximately a quarter of the head remains, and it is undecorated. It has an even green patina, and some pitting Dimensions: It is 67.47mm in width. At the blade tip it is 60.60 in length and 42.52 at the narrowest point. It is 8.98mm in thickness and reduces to 2.96mm at the blade. It weighs 150.15g.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wiswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-31E9B3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary grey chert debitage, probably Bronze Age. Small area of sub-parallel acute short retouch. Dates from c2350 to c1000 BC. The length is 21mm, width 18mm, thickness 5mm, and the weight is 1.77g.
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Rufford', grid reference and parish protected.