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Record ID: SF-FEF171
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date. Only the socket end of the axe remains, and it has post-depositional damage. It is broadly trapezoidal in shape, and is hollow. At the socket end the rim in thickened. Along one outer edge is the remains of a longitudinal casting seam.There is a similar example recorded on the PAS database (SF-CA59D7). This socket measures 43.02mm in length, 47.15mm in width, 4.77m in thickness, 47.86g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5976C7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy 'moustache-shaped' object of late Bronze Age or Iron Age date. The object has a narrowed body with two sweeping swollen drop shaped ends which taper towards pointed terminals, one of which terminates in a break. There are five panels of linear grooves on each rounded side, with medial bands running down the middle, flanked by two panels of oblique lines and then two outer peripheral panels of lines running roughly parallel to those along the centre. The tapering lower projections are undecorated. There is a sub rectangular hollow between the projections…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rushbrooke with Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1B57C5
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early Bronze Age flat axehead. All that remains is the blade end, which is flared and roughly triangular in shape.The worn and corroded cutting edge is crescentic in form, extending beyond both sides of the axe. The surface is badly corroded with little of the original patina remaining.  This is the blade end from an incomplete axe of Bronze Age date. Its form, size and lack of flanges suggest it is a flat axe rather than a palstave and as such it dates to the Early Bronze Age, c.2150-1500 BC. Length: 66.35mm Width: 62.66mm Thickness: …
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-196FF1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a cast copper-alloy spearhead of probable Middle to Late Bronze Age date. Only the tip survives, the pitting and corrosion. This is an incomplete fragment from the tip of a Bronze Age object, probably a spear of uncertain type. It is likely to date to the Middle or Late Bronze Age, c.1600-800 BC. It is 35.61mm in length, 12.68mm in width, 4.04mm in width and 5.32g in weight. 
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-03E593
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete unlooped copper-alloy Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave axehead. The H-shaped hafting channels at the butt are in good condition, with most of the original edges surviving on all four flanges. The butt narrows before a worn transverse break. The (abraded) stop ridge is slightly higher than the flanges. The septum is 57.1mm long. Beneath the stop ridge on both faces is a moulded shield-shaped pattern, bisected by a prominent longitudinal ridge creating a trident pattern. The ridges fade before the cutting edge. The crescentic cutting edge is jagged and abraded. There are no ca…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-0357D1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy spear of probable Middle to Late Bronze Age date. Only the tip survives, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It is triangular in form with prominent mid rib and flattened blades that give the surviving fragment a lozenge shaped cross-section. The tip is rounded and perhaps incomplete due to old breaks, while in the breaks towards the butt end can be seen the remains of a central circular socket. It measures 50.01mm in length, 10.04mm in width, 7.87mm in thickness, and 8.31g in weight. This is an incomplete fragment from the tip of a Bronze Age objec…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F00FB7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead. Only the socket survives. This is circular in cross-section, hollow and expands slightly towards its outer end. To either side of the inner end there is a small attachment loop, which would have allowed it to be secured to the shaft. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded with a silvery coating visible in places.  Spearheads with side loops date generally to the Acton Park and Taunton phases of the middle Bronze Age, c.1550-c.1250 BC (Davis 2017). Without the blade they cannot be dated more precisely.  Leng…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Linstead Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-896F6B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe blade dating to circa 1300-800 BC. The extant piece consists of the crescentic cutting end, a fragment of the socket survives as a groove on the break. The cutting edge is smooth. Length, 29.15mm; Width, 39.46mm; Weight: 49.62g. Similar example SF-ED1342.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4A424B
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy socketed spear of Bronze Age date. Only a fragment of the blade survives. The blade is rectangular in plan. In cross-section it has a lozenge shaped mid-section. The mid-rib is prominent and runs the full length of the fragment. The surface of the metal is pitted with corrosion and the breaks are well worn. It has a brown green patina.  Without further diagnostic details its precise form and date cannot be determined, but socketed spears were in use from c.1800 BC until c.900 BC.
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-49068B
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy early Bronze Age probable axe-chisel (or diminutive axe). The object is a narrow, sub-triangular shape with a rounded butt and gently outwards curving narrow blade end. In profile the object is lenticular - expanding slightly towards the centre and narrowing towards each end. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded with the outer edge of the blade now entirely missing. With its small size and narrow body and cutting edge this object probably fits best into a group of objects that Needham (1996) describes as 'axe-chisels…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southolt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C6436A
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a middle or late Bronze Age copper-alloy spear head, dating to 1500 BC - 801 BC. The fragment is of the spear tip, which has a solid midrib oval in cross-section, creating a central longitudinal rib on both faces; merging at the tip with the blade edges.The edges of the blades are worn and notched. The object is mainly patinated to a dark brown colour and elsewhere a pale greenish or lighter brown colour.   Length 56.36mm; width at broadest part 14.78mm; thickness 8.02; weight 13.9g
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bildeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2DEEFA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A Middle Bronze Age hoard consisting of two cast copper alloy palstave axeheads dating to circa 1500-1150 cal BC. A Complete looped palstave axehead. Its butt is flat with a median hemispherical notch. The flanges expand from the just after the butt terminating in a transverse stop ridge which is slightly higher than the flanges protruding as a raised ridge. The septum is 54.5mm long. Beneath the ridge is a moulded shield shape pattern, a design replicated on both faces. Running from the lower edge of the shield down the blade and into the cutting edge is a p…
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Westleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B4EF75
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible Bronze Age copper-alloy razor dating to circa 1400-800 BC. The extant piece is rectangular in plan with a slightly curved profile.  It terminates in old, worn breaks along each edge. At one end is a circular perforation 2.1mm in diameter. Adjacent to the perforation, one face shows evidence for a small, not penetrated, drilled circular hole 1.7mm in diameter. It has a dark green patina. The patina of the object is consistent with Bronze Age metalwork although the weight is light and might indicate a more Medieval date. The perforation is consistent with s…
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wissett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-90078F
Object type: AXE MOULD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed axe mould. Two separate valves were found, one almost complete and one fragmentary, while the inner section of what originally would have been a three-piece mould is now missing. Complete valves are rare finds. See PAS record: SF-839555 for a very similar example, also from Suffolk and BERK-56BD17 from Oxfordshire. This is a mould for a Southeastern Type socketed axe (Ewart Park Phase c.1000-800BC), which are the most common socketed axes found in the UK. 1. Length: 113.17mm, width: 52.64mm, thickness at sock…
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-54D7A7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy socketed axe of late Bronze Age date. Only a small fragment of the socket end survives. This is roughly sub-rectangular in plan with breaks around three sides and part of the outer edge of the socket surviving on the fourth edge. At the socket end the exterior has a thickened rim beneath which is a prominent transverse ridge. There is also a longitudinal casting seam running along the centre of the outer side. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded and the breaks are well worn. Without further diagnostic details only a gen…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3EDF33
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy socked axehead of late Bronze Age date. This is a fragment of the mouth of the axehead. Two sections of the body positioned at an abrupt right-angle to one another survive, each with a rough break around its outer edge. There is a raised rim around the outer face of the mouth and a raised parallel ridge behind this. Thin raised lines also run longitudinally along the centre of each outer face. The fragment has a brown patina with areas of green corrosion.  A similar example can be seen on the PAS database: NMS-38706A. Without further diag…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradfield St George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DD891B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed axehead. Only the blade end and a small amount of the socket survive. The blade curves gently outwards while its sides curve inwards slightly towards the butt end. The break across the inner end is irregular and well worn. A rectangular indentation in the centre of the break represents all that is left of the inner part of the original socket. The surface of the metal is corroded in places. Only a broad late Bronze Age date can be suggested due to the lack of diagnostic features. Length: 39.33mm, width: 39.56mm, thi…
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F6B423
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze Age axehead dating to circa 1600-800 BC. The extant element consists of the crescentic cutting edge, with abraded and pitted faces. It terminates in an ancient break just before the cutting edge making it unclear whether the axehead would have been flat or socketed. 
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Henley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-020828
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze Age probable flat axehead or possibly a chisel dating to circa 2350-1500 BC. Trapezoidal in plan and rectangular-sectioned, the extant piece is heavily worn. It has a thin, straight butt which flares outwards before terminating in an ancient break before any diagnostic features would have been revealed. It is now heavily corroded and abraded. A broad Early Bronze Age date is suggested, consisted with the chronology for flat axeheads. Length: 42.8mm; Width: 22.3mm; Thickness: 5.2mm; Weight: 15.8mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Badley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-ED1342
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe dating to circa 1300-800 BC. The extant piece consists of the crescentic cutting end, which terminates in an old break at the base of the socket, which is rectangular. The cutting edge is jagged. Length: 22.5mm; Width: 40.5mm; Thickness: 10mm; Weight: 33.67g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Badley', grid reference and parish protected.