Record ID: WILT-682E7A
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze Age blade tip. The fragment is broadly triagnular tapering from 15.45mm to 2.7mm at the tip. The fragment is lozengeform in cross section and narrows from 2.85mm thick at the break to 0.9mm thick at the tip. The fragment weighs 4.37 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2016
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Record ID: WILT-6DEC5A
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze Age blade tip. The fragment is broadly triagnular tapering from 27.65mm to 3.6mm at the tip. The fragment is lozengeform in cross section and narrows from 3.2mm thick at the break to 1.4mm thick at the tip. The fragment weighs 4.06 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Record ID: DEV-CA1D09
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze age Copper alloy blade, probably dating to c. 2400-800 BC. The fragment is sub-rectangular in plan, tapering from 16.4mm to 12.4mm from one end to the other. In cross secion the blade is pointed-oval, tapering into the edges, and being 6.5mm thick at its maximum, and 4.7mm thick at the narrower end. The fragment terminates in a worn, patinated break at both ends, with one section of an edge folded in on itself. Dimensions: length 65.5mm; width 16.4mm; thickness 6.5mm; weight 23.28g.
Created on: Monday 30th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Record ID: BERK-9A6493
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy rapier or dagger, dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (c. 1500-800 BC). The fragment consists of only the tip of the weapon.
Created on: Wednesday 16th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-DBC8C6
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment of a Bronze Age blade, probably from a dagger or rapier and dating from 2350 BC - 800 BC. The fragment is probably from near the tip of the implement, as is it thin and narrow. It is surb-rectangular, broken at both ends and with damage and chips to each side. It is a very thin pointed oval in cross-section. The surface is grey green and extensively pitted. It measures 27.7mm long, 15.5mm wide and 2.3mm thick. 3.81g.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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Record ID: NLM-F55856
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy blade. Cast blade from a short stabbing rapier or dagger; possibly the former reduced to the latter by sharpening over a prolonged period. Dot Boughton kindly advised upon the identification and dating of the object. The blade has a rounded end tapering to a point with sharp sides. The section is lentoid, and thinned by sharpening which has introduced a waisted form to its mid section. The blade expands towards the hilt, with sloped shoulders and a tang of rectangular section which is torn at a single drilled hole of diameter 4.5mm which appears to have cut across the U-sh…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-872F95
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age bronze blade. The blade is incomplete and fragmentary, in two pieces (the upper fragment has a length and weight of 75.2mm and 25.2g respectively, the lower part is similarly 39.6mm and 8.5g, with a combined dimensions of 110.9mm and 33.7g). The butt or hilt is missing with no evidence for rivet holes or a tang but the top of the blade does not appear to be widening (with a width of 17.2mm). The blade has a prominent rounded midrib of consistent width and thickness (of 4.0mm width and 4.0mm thick). The original blade edges have been lost but the surviving edge is compa…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-70ABE9
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy blade, probably a blade edge fragment from a Bronze Age axe of indeterminate type and date. The axe is fragmentary, represented by the blade edge only (with a width of 36.5mm, a surviving length of 14.0mm, a maximum surviving thickness of 6.0mm and a weight of 11.0g). The break occurred in antiquity and there is no socket base evident on the fragment. The blade edge is convex and is incomplete, with approximately two-thirds represented. The original edge has been lost through corrosion. The surface is heavily-pitted and corroded and very little of original surface survive…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-709985
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age bronze blade, possibly a dirk of Group II blade with a damaged butt. The dirk is incomplete with some peripheral damage to the butt and some distortion (with a length of 131.4mm and a weight of 19.7g). The shoulders are eroded but are probably close to their original width (with a surviving width of 39.2mm). The original form of the hilt is now uncertain and there are no definitive arcs from rivet holes present along the edges although it is possible to suggest an arc at the apex, towards the more complete shoulder side. The butt is thinned (with a thickness at th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-F0B7C3
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age bronze blade, possibly a dirk of Group II or III blade with a damaged butt The dirk is incomplete with some peripheral damage to the butt and upper part of the blade (with a length of 135.2mm and a weight of 32.6 g). The top edge of the butt is damaged and irregular, with a number of arcs, possibly related to rivet holes but none of which may now be identified with any certainty. The dirk is thinnest at the butt (with a thickness of 0.8mm) and is widest across the eroded shoulders (with a surviving width of 38.7mm). The original form of the hilt is now uncertain…
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: PAS-9C1225
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy blade probably from a sword of Late Bronze Age date. The fragment is pointed oval in cross-section with smooth curve on both surfaces and no discernible mid rib. There are old patinated breaks at each end and down each side, obscuring the original shape. However, in one corner the fragment does appear to flare out slightly, though this may be illusory; the width is generally consistent. It is 28.05mm long, 20.7mm wide,3.7mm thick. It weighs 10.37grams. The surfaces are slightly corroded.
Created on: Sunday 22nd February 2015
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: NMGW-487432
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze blade, possibly a dirk of Group IV blade with a damaged butt. The dirk is incomplete with some peripheral damage to the butt (with a length of 124.3mm and a weight of 29.3g). The shoulders are eroded but appear to have been comparatively broad (with a surviving width of 48.2mm) and is better preserved on one side. The original form of the hilt is now uncertain although it may have been of trapezoidal form with differential corrosion to the apex of the butt, which now has convergent sides. There are no definite rivet holes evident but there is a notch at t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-DE801C
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Possible blade fragment of Bronze Age date The blade is fragmentary (with a surviving length of 24.7mm and a weight of 5.1 g) and appears to represent a fragment from the apex of the blade and beginning of the hilt. The suggested hilt part is wider and marginally thinner (with a maximum surviving width of 22.8mm and a thickness of 2.0mm). The blade edge does not survive on either side (with a minimum surviving width of 15.5mm, where it has a thickness of 2.8mm). A sub-circular notch may possibly be the remains of a rivet attachment hole. However, only one face only has a midrib (1…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: WILT-608543
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and incomplete middle to late Bronze-age blade (c.1500-801 BC) possibly a dirk or rapier . It is broadly triangular in shape and is pointed oval in cross section. The blade widens near the top just underneath where the blade has been deliberately bent and broken. It tapers from a width of 22.5mm at the bent end to the tip where it measures 5.50mm. The right side of the blade is particularly worn and abraded and there is a semi-circular notch missing from just underneath where it reaches its widest point. Where the blade has been deliberately bent it begins to narrow to a width …
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-35639F
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age sword blade fragment of uncertain type, probably of Late Bronze Age date, possibly of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking Industry of Needham's (1996)[1] Periods 4-5, dated to c. 1150 - 750BC. The sword is fragmentary, represented by a blade fragment, broken at both ends in antiquity (with a surviving length of 42.2mm and a weight of 22.7g). The blade has no clearly defined midrib but has near straight faces gradually diverging towards the rounded central ridge (giving a consistent thickness of 5.7mm) of lenticular section. Both blade edges have been lost and only a ver…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-FE5523
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age sword blade fragment of uncertain type, probably of Late Bronze Age date, possibly of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking Industry of Needham's (1996)[1] Periods 4-5, dated to c. 1150 - 750BC. The sword is fragmentary, represented by a blade fragment, broken at both ends in antiquity (with a surviving length of 22.3mm and a weight of 16.7g). The blade has a midrib (11mm wide and giving a maximum thickness of 8.0mm), flanked on each side by a concave section to the blade edge. The blade edges have been lost but the beginnings of the blade edge facets are evident on both …
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: WAW-E33DE9
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy blade fragment of Bronze Age (-2150 to -800) date: Only the tip of the blade survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to an old break, now worn. The surviving fragment is an elongated triangle in plan, an elongated pointed oval in section. The cutting edges are flattened and are partially incomplete due to abrasion. The surface is heavily abraded and pitted with traces of a dark green/brown patina. This blade measures 44.43mm in length, 10.86mm in width, 4.03mm in thickness, 7.1g in weight. It is uncertain what implement the blade comes from, possibly a s…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th September 2014
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Record ID: SOM-207369
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment: probably the tip of a Bronze Age bladed weapon. It is of elongated triangular form with a rounded end. It has a flat hexagonal cross-section, given by a flat central zone to the blade and shallowly bevelled sides on both faces. It measures: Length: 51.8mm, Width: 17.55 mm tapering to 5.8mm, Thickness 3.4mm, Weight 10.34g. It has a variable mid-green patina with some scratches, probably post deposotional.
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 22nd August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Sub Hamdon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AD5DA4
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy blade fragment of Bronze Age date. Only part of the blade survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The surviving fragment is rectangular in form, pointed oval in section with an oval mid rib. The cutting edges are flattened and are partially incomplete due to old breaks. This blade measures 27.74mm in length, 23.77mm in width, 5.98mm in thickness, 18.47g in weight.
Created on: Friday 13th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-257342
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze Age cast copper-alloy knife blade (c. 1500 BC-c. 750 BC). This blade tip is triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in cross-section. It has an olive green patina with some corrosion on both faces. The edges are sharp and the transverse break is old. Height: 25.4mm; width at break: 7.5mm; thickness: 1.9mm. Weight: 1.06g.
Created on: Sunday 25th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.