Record ID: BUC-E3E35D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy scabbard chape dating to the late Bronze Age, 1150 - 800 BC. The chape is sub triangular or ogival in shape, and lozenge shaped in cross section. At the open end the chape curves upwards into two convex arms, creating a crescent shape. The outside edges curve down gradually to half way down the chape, before narrowing at a more steep angle. The chape terminates with a rounded knop, at the end of which is a circular hole and rivet to attach the knop. Running down the centre of the chape on both sides is a raised ridge, this slopes gradually down to the edge of t…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-E3E184
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy socketed, side-looped spearhead, dating from the early Middle Bronze Age (c.1550-1250 BC). The spear can probably be assigned to Davis's Group 7 'Special Side Looped'. The object has a broken blade of indented quadrilateral section. There is a prominent longitudinal mid-rib on both sides of the spear blade and abraded cutting edges. Approximately one third of the blade has been broken off. The socketed end of the spear measures 15.76mm in diameter. The single side loop towards the base of the socketed end has since broken away. There is a hole on …
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-DF31CC
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green's (1980) 'Sutton' type, dating c. 2500-1500 BC. One barb and the tip of the arrowhead are missing, but otherwise it is preserved in relatively good condition. Manufactured on a small piece of originally tan coloured flint that has now patinated a mottled blue/white, both faces of the arrowhead demonstrate highly invasive pressure-flaked removals that have removed almost all of the original flake surface. The tang is squared off at its base, the body triangular in plan with deep notches cut into its base, while the remain…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.