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Record ID: OXON-84347A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy socketed axehead of 'Meldreth' type. dating to the Late Bronze Age c.1150-800 cal BC.
The socket of the axehead is sub-hexagonal in section with rounded edges. It has a projecting collar that is 5.6mm thick that flares outwards slightly. Below this the main body of the axe is broadly hexagonal in cross section due to diagonal facets on its front and rear faces. Below the collar the axehead is 28.3mm wide and it then expands over its length in a smooth shallow crescentic curve to 49.0mm wide at the blade wing tips.…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-30E264
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy socketed axehead dating to the late Bronze Age (c.1000-800 BC).
The object is sub-rectangular in plan and wedge-shaped. The cutting edge is curved and expands slightly outwards. The edge is worn and abraded and measures 39.28mm in width. At the base of the object is a broadly sub-rectangular shaped mouth with an expanded moulded collar, measuring 39.43mm in length, 33.45mm width and 5.94mm thick. Below the mouth is a moulded collar from which a single raised line of decoration travels down the centre of the surviving side until almost the halfway point.…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Record ID: NARC-7190F7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy socketed Axehead of Bronze Age date (1500-800 BC). The object is composed of a fastening loop and part of the socket rim. The socket rim has a double collar around the socket hole to the base of the loop. The profile of the socket is sub-square, however little is retained so its exact profile is difficult to determine from the fragment.
Length: 37.78mm, Width: 27.73mm, Thickness: 7.41mm, Weight: 29.1g
The metal is dark brown to light green in colour with a pitted and corroded patina.
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: SUR-F20CB9
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment of a late Bronze Age (c. 1100 BC to 800 BC) socketed axehead measuring 22.6mm by 35.2mm. The fragment comprises the blade tip which flares out into a curved cutting edge. The axehead has a triangular side profile and a hollow centre. Most of the original surface has been lost.
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-4D552C
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Bronze Age socketed axehead or socketed chisel dating from about 1000 BC - 700 BC. It has a fairly straight cutting edge with rounded corners one of which is broken off. There are straight but tapering sides and an ancient break at the top across the end of the socket where it is rectangular in cross-section. The rest of the tool is missing. The fragment has a green and brown mottled patina. the fragment is too small to classify. It could be a small socketed axe, a palstave or a chisel. It is similar to SWYOR-AC278F, SF-9E9143 and NCL-F12C3E. The fragment i…
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
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This findspot is known as 'near Thirsk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-CC6598
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded cast copper fragment from the socket of a late Bronze Age (c. 1100-800 BC) socketed axehead of uncertain type. The fragment in 27.9mm in length and comprises part of one lateral side of the socket, with a prominant casting ridge along the side and a corner suggesting that the socket had a sub rectangular shape.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: SF-CB99E3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable Bronze Age socketed axe dating to circa 1600-800 BC. It is broadly triangular in plan with straight edges. A longitudinal ridge runs down one face, which is likely a ridge from the interior of the socket mouth of a Bronze Age axe.
Length: 26.3mm; Width: 18.6mm; Thickness: 3.2mm; Weight: 5.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Near Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-2326ED
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Bronze Age socketed axe, dating to c. 1500 - 800 BC. Possibly a fragment of socketed axehead. The fragment that remains is the blade end of the axehead with an uneven torn break cutting across its body. Beyond the break the axe widens in smooth concave curves to the blade edge which is crescent shaped.
Length: 60.8 mm
Width: 48.6 mm
Thickness: 10.2 mm
Weight: 68.17 g
Created on: Monday 16th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-7AC682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axehead retaining fragments of a wooden haft. Cast axehead with a rounded socket mouth, straighter on one side on the inner side of the aperture, with a moulded lip; a second shallower moulding passes round the axehead where it aligns with the springing of a single loop of length 21mm. Mould lines pass from the socket moulding to near a curved cutting edge along the upper and lower sides. The cutting edge is markedly abraded with the loss of all the sharpened edge. Three slivers of wood of length c.60mm, now of angular sections and one with a limited copper-stain…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-6BD01B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary cast copper alloy axe head of Late Bronze Age date. The type is uncertain, but probably South Wales (Stogursey) Type of Ewart Park metalworking industry dated to c.950-750 BC, but possibly of Wilburton-Wallington through to Llyn Fawr industries dating to c.1150-600 BC.
The axehead is represented by the end of the blade only with a straight transverse break across its width resulting in a surviving length of 32.3mm. The break happened in antiquity and is likely evidence for deliberate breakage of the object prior to deposition, or ‘ritual killing’. The wi…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: WILT-EE95C2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Bronze age copper alloy socketed axehead, probably dating to c. 1000-800 BC. It is part of the mouth and a small section of the body of the axe. All else is missing. There are early breaks on all sides except the lower part of the mouth. It appears to be part of the lower thickness of the axehead which appears to have had a sub rectangular mouth. A slight casting seam can be seen on one surface (the lower edge), starting at the mouth and running over a well defined mouth moulding towards the blade end. On what would have been the right cheek (facing from the …
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DA18AB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, the crescentic cutting edge and the very end of the socket. The break is old but there is recent scuffing damage, especially to the cutting edge. Weight 93g. Extant length 31.5mm. Width 62.7mm. Thickness 14.5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D88F73
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, part of the socket and all of the crescentic cutting edge. The two broad faces are distorted at the old break. All of the patination has been lost except for a patch behind both ends of the blade. Weight 80g. Extant length 42.5mm. Width 46mm. Thickness 15.2mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-C09AE2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axe head. Cast socketed axe head with a single oval loop of length 20.5mm and width 11.6mm adjacent to the rounded moulding surrounding a socket mouth measuring 25.4mm by 26.5mm; the socket is 65mm deep. A low secondary moulding of width 5mm around the socket mouth appears on the sides and beside the loop, though its definition is lost on that side opposite the loop. An external mould line passes from the socket mouth along the upper and lower sides of the axe head as far as the ends of a crescentic cutting edge to its expanded blade. The sides of the axe are pla…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-DD256B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete cast copper alloy socketed axehead. The mouth of the socket is square with a thick exterior beaded collar around it. The body of the blade tapers from the mouth towards the blade in one plane, whilst it flares in the other into a curved, crescentic cutting edge. At one side, below the collar, is a large side loop on the longitudinal axis. The loop is D-shaped with an oval aperture. There are clear casting lines along the sides of the axehead. The sides of the body have two longitudinal facets flanking the casting ridges, giving the body an irregular hexagonal exterior prof…
Created on: Friday 25th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NARC-B37797
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy socketed Axehead of Middle to late Bronze Age date (1500-800 BC). The object comprised the blade end of a socketed axehead. The blade tip is hollow and flares at the edges. A casting seam is visible around the upper and lower edged. The blade end in worn and chipped. The object terminates at the opposing end in a transverse break.
Length: 32.63mm, Width (blade): 48.26mm, Thickness (body): 14.15mm, Thickness (blade): 2.89mm, Weight: 66.3g
The metal has a dark green predominantly smooth patina.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: DOR-8875FB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of socketed axehead. The lower blade and cutting edge only remains. The axehead has been broken in an abraded, irregular curve just above the end of the rectangular socket. The cutting edge is curved and only very slighttly flared.The surfaces are very corroded and iron stained.
Date: Late Bronze Age - c 1000 - 800 BC
Dimensions: 39.81 mm x 45.23 mm x 14.93 mm
Weight: 78.84 g
A similar fragment is recorded in database record HAMP-888D78 where Rob Webley comments The axehead is most likely to date from the Ewart Park phase (1000-800 BC), a period in which scrap…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-45DBA6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded and abraded fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe dating to the late Bronze Age (1100 - 800 BC), 42mm in length, comprising a side of the socket. The profile of the socket appears subrectangular and there is a portion of a thickened and rounded rim at one end. There are breaks to all sides.
Created on: Friday 18th March 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: ESS-358524
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed axehead dating to c. 1000-800BC. This fragment represents the lower blade end of the axe. It is sub-square in plan and wedge shaped in profile. When viewed in plan the sides of the body are fairly straight with little expansion. The axe blade shows signs of wear with corrosion and scratch marks visible on all sides.
Dimensions: L: 48.9mm, W: 40.4mm, Weight: 66.16g
Similar to: ESS-589E20 and ESS-32ED64
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Butley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-5EA8F2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy socketed axe head of the south-eastern type (plain A1) of Late Bronze Age date (1000-800 BC).
The socketed axe is sub rectangular in shape, with a curved cutting edge. A slight horizontal collar is present on a couple of faces. There is a single loop on one side of the axehead. The loop measures 18.1 mm in length, and 6.6 mm thick. The blade is wide and crescentic with some damage to the cutting edge. The casting seam is visible down both sides externally but is not visible within. Three domed protrusions are visible inside the socket. The mouth of th…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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