Record ID: ESS-6AC2B3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement. Teardrop shaped in plan and sublozenge shaped in section. Hazel Martingell notes that this piece of light brown flint with cream coloured inclusions is a natural flint with pot lid fractures. However there are knapped areas. These pieces are called ‘tools of convenience’ as they are a mixture of natural and worked removals. These pieces are typical of the later prehistoric period, 1,500BC and onwards, but do continue to be used into the historic period. The piece recorded here was probably used as a pick or scraper. It is 137.78mm long, 85.06mm wide, 30.76mm wide …
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F5DE7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper alloy late Bronze Age socketed axe head. The fragment represents a small part of the lower blade and cutting edge. It is semicircular in plan and wedge-shaped in profile. When viewed in plan, the sides of the body flare out at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The cutting edge and blade tips are worn. There is evidence of the casting seam to one side of the axe. There is a rectangular aperture in the thicker end of the fragment, which represents the very end of the socket. The surface of the axe is damaged, but it survives mostly intact with a dark green patina. …
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-823D32
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age rapier blade fragment, butt end and part of blade only. The butt end is slightly rounded, and has two opposing notches rather than rivet holes. The blade is roughly parallel sided - it narrows only very slightly then expands again very slighly towards the break. Length 85.20mm, width 20.78mm, thickness 3.95mm, weight 28.16g.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-865AE4
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle Bronze Age palstave axehead, consisting of the tip of the butt end. It is a narrow 17mm in width at the very end, which is also damaged. Its maximum thickness is 10.5mm. It widens over 23mm to 20.5mm wide at the ancient break. There are casting flashes worn down but not completely at the sides, sloping on both sides off centre towards the same side. Oval indentations on both sides below the butt accentuate the wings, just beginning. The patina is very dark green/ black and shiny. The fragment weighs 14.96g. The narrowness of the butt end suggest this is more a Middle…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-973637
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age Fragments of flat-rib rapier blade, broad flat rib, (ancient break), >22 x >61mm. Weight 10.27g. C.1200-900 BC.
Created on: Friday 9th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-9A0A82
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged flint arrowhead of probable early Bronze Age date. The object measures 23.1mm high by 15mm wide and 3.8mm thick. The main part of the body is triangular in shape, extending to a sharp point at the top and terminating in a barb at one of the bottom corners. The opposite corner has been broken off in antiquity. The tang is sub-rectangular and measures 6.5mm long by 5.3mm wide. Both surfaces of the object are convex and have been formed by pressure flaking. The edges appear to have been deliberately serrated. The surface of the object is heavily weathered. The weight …
Created on: Friday 9th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D52D41
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead, corroded and damaged butt-end, sides expanding slightly to break, cutting edge missing (width 60mm). Body rectangular in section (9mm thick at break), thinning to butt-end (3mm thick). Length >46mm, width >32mm, weighs 56.98g. c.2350–c.1500 BC.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D56971
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age fragment of mouth of socketed axe, 21 x 20mm.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-EA37C2
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Bronze Age blade, probably from near the tip end of a sword. The blade fragment is 55mm in length, 11mm in width, and is lozenge shaped in cross-section. All surfaces including the breaks are heavily covered with a mid-brown patination. The blade fragment tapers in plan and is slightly bowed in profile.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FFE225
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a triangular perforated knife or hog-backed knife, of late Bronze Age date. The rather obtuse cutting edges are typical of these objects (pers. comm. Stuart Needham). The object would have originally been the shape of a squat isosceles triangle, with the cutting edge on the long side. In the centre there would have been an oval or rounded triangular perforation. The surviving fragment represents less than a third of the original artefact. In its present state it measures 31.31mm in length and weighs 15.99g. The maximum thickness is 6.47mm. The object has a heavy dark green pati…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9463D5
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper which probably dates from the early Bronze Age. The scraper has been made from a small regular flake, from which the bulb of percussion has been removed. There are fint ripples on the ventral surface and a number of flaking scars on the dorsal surface. The edges of the dorsal surface has been retouched all around the distal end and partially along both sides, probably by pressure flaking. The mottled light and dark grey flint has a mid gloss patina. Dimensions: 30.63mm by 23.72mm by 4.72mm Weight: 5.08g
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tatworth and Forton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-85E871
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Published
Blade end fragment from a Late Bronze Age Socketed axe, c. 1150-800BC of likely Wilburton-Ewart Park metalworking traditions, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 6 - 7. While socketed axeheads can date from anytime within the Late Bronze Age, most diagnostic finds tend to date to the Ewart Park phase (950-750BC). The axe head is represented by the blade only and has a maximum surviving length of 35.8mm. The bottom of the socket is present and has been deliberately closed by battering; this damage is also likely to have contributed to the break. Both faces are concave as a result …
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NARC-9953C8
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric cast copper-alloy awl. The main shaft of the awl is circular in section and tapers to a point. At its widest point the object is 6.4mm in diameter. At the end opposite the above point is a tang, sub-rectangular in section, which itself tapers. The object has suffered quite a degree of corrosion.
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-9B13C1
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy knife-shaped object. This small artefact tapers to a point which is now missing following an old break. At the attachment end there are traces of rivet holes which have become abraded. The holes on the edges echo those of a Bronze Age sword hilt fragment as illustrated in Needham (1990, 50; fig. 65). The form of the object, however, seems to echo that of a Bronze Age knife as illustrated, for example, in Mills (2000, 19; fig. BR9). There is bevelling on both faces of the object creating a shallow, almost indiscernible, mid-ridge. The small artefact is possibly…
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-AA5ED7
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large, heavy copper-alloy flat axe with straight sides and butt and gently curved crescent-shaped blade. The axe is about 12mm thick and narrows towards butt-end and blade. Though heavily corroded, the axe appears undamaged. It seems that this flat axe is one of the earliest British metal artefacts. The copper content is unusually high for an Early Bronze Age and the shape of the axe dates it to the Castletown Roche tradition - the earliest in Great Britain (Schmidt, P.K. and Burgess, C. 1981, no. 3).
Created on: Friday 18th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AAE7B2
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy flanged axe, butt end and corners of blade broken off. The axe is of light green/brown colour with some flecks of original golden surface coming through where the patina has peeled off. It is not a very good casting, because the halves of the mould were not fitted very well: Looking at the axe from the side, the flanges are at a slightly different height and position. The axe is part of the Taunton (Ornament Horizon/Glentrool/Caldonshill) metalwork tradition (e.g. Schmidt, P.K. and Burgess, C. 1981, no. 525).
Created on: Friday 18th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Lancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-ED7843
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead. The barbs are broken and missing and there is some modern edge damage. Both surfaces have been completely reduced. Play grey flint with a thick white opaque patina. There are some rust spots present on the flint. Dimensions: Length 31.32mm; Width 22.08mm; Thickness 7.09mm; Weight 4.25g;
Created on: Monday 21st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-EE25E3
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the blade of a sword. In side view there is a slight curve.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-EF9545
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slender triangular arrowhead made from grey/brown flint. Both barbs are slightly truncated.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-041D11
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lump of copper 'cake'. Sub-triangular in section. Dull purply-grey with patchy green surfaces.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.