Record ID: LVPL766
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Hole in upper part of socket. Sub-rectangular in section. Collar around socket edge.
Created on: Wednesday 25th August 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE MORECAMBE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2C7E41
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower end and bigger part of the socketed of a socketed hammer head, probably dating from the Late Bronze or Iron Ages, but could also be later. The top layer of the metal shows advanced stages corrosion and bronze disease and due to this state it is difficult to determine any marks of wear or use, decoration or date it more accurately. However, tools made from bronze such as this were common in the Late Bronze Age and rarer in the following Iron Age and Roman period. They were succeeded by tools made from iron.
Created on: Friday 16th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancashire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5AC798
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed hammer. There is no apparent decoration and it is slimmer than is usual. The hammer is sub rectangular and slightly wasted in plan. In profile it is a truncated sub-triangle, with the facetted striking face being at the narrower end and the socket at the wider. The socket has a sub rectangular mouth and its internal dimensions are 43mm x 14mm x 12mm. The striking surface is rectangular in end view and is a typical obliquely angled triangle in profile, with bulging from use on when edge. It is Ewart Park phase attribution so would date from c1000 t…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.