Record ID: SUSS-2019E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Length = 43.1mm Width = 19.8mm Thick = 5.5mm
Created on: Friday 27th April 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-8438EC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy cauldron lug of possible Bronze Age date, possibly c. 1200-700 BC in date as suggested by the below arguments. It is also possible that this item dates to the Iron Age or later and this is also discussed below. The remaining fragment is a portion of one of the cauldron's handle loops, but this fragment has broken off from the larger vessel, now missing. The fragment is curved in profile, with three deeply grooved ridges on the outer surface, which have been indented along the centre, suggesting that another element abutted this area. The interior edge of t…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-30F173
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a cast copper alloy ribbed lug handle from a late Bronze Age bucket. Dot Bruns comments: "This is a fragment from either an Atlantic bucket, Danubian style series, Type Nannau-Dowris or a Hiberno-British bucket like the ones from Dowalton and Duddingston Loch, both in the National Museum in Edinburgh. These are nos 166 and 167 in Gerloff's catalogue respectively and the date is c. late Wilburton-Ewart Park metalwork tradition, that is c. 1100-800BC. Gerloff does date the buckets into the Llyn Fawr period, but I am not sure what her evidence is - I certainly haven…
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF10245
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of heavy corrugated cast staple handle(?) attachment, probably from bucket or cauldron, found within a hoard. Decorated externally with five heavy ribs/corrugations, plain internally. At the base of these ribs is the remains of a transverse internal socket. The top, broken end of the ribs, is very thin in places. All breaks are ancient. Medium brown/green patina with paler green corrosive encrustations. Appears to be a high lead casting. cf cast staples from cauldron in Llyn Fawr hoard & from bucket(?) in Hatfield Broad Oak hoard (Davies 1929 - BAR67, Fig 8.1)
Created on: Monday 13th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ipswich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-832744
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy cauldron of possible Bronze Age date. One handle lug and loop survive intact, preserving small areas of the sheet vessel, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. The handle attachment has a rectangular plate that is rectangular in section with a concave lower edge and has a beaten front face. At its upper edge the plate projects forwards at an angle of 90 degrees and on the upper surface has a large, integrally cast cylindrical handle lug with transverse circular aperture. The front and upper surfaces of the lug have decoration comprising …
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxlingham Green', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6E1D71
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twenty fragments of a Middle or Late Bronze Age copper alloy cauldron, consisting of at least two cast staples and one or two ring handles. Recovered in four groups (items 1 - 10, 11 - 16, 17 - 19 & 20 - 21) with NGRs recorded for each find spot, but association between NGR and individual objects not retained except for nos. 1, 15 and 16. All the fragments are highly corroded. Handle 1: Three re-fitting fragments of cast copper alloy ring (two fragments from group 11 - 14, one fragment from group 2 - 10). The section varies from circular (9mm diameter) to oval (12 x 11 mm). Origina…
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-A60BD5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Curved cast bronze fragment, possibly a strap handle from a later prehistoric cauldron or metal vessel. The strap fragment has a little of the attachment plate surviving before two wide and rounded ribs. The strap is curved and would have secured the circular ring handle. Similar fittings can be found on the Llyn Fawr cauldrons and other sheet metal vessels from the Later Prehistoric period.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2004
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: LANCUM-F48CD6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragment of cu-alloy sheet vessel, possibly a bowl. The date is difficult to determine because riveted bronze sheet vessels have been known since the Late Bronze Age and Norfolk is rich in Bronze Age metalwork. However, the vessel could also date from the IA, Roman or Medieval Ages. The rim of the vessel was made from two layers of bronze sheet, held together by rivets, two of which are still in place. The double layer of sheet metal around the rim probably served as enforcement. A parallel for this piece comes from the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age settlement of Potterne, Wilts. (Law…
Created on: Monday 7th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: ESS-7EC2A4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy loop probably from a bucket or cauldron of Bronze Age date. It looks too rounded to be a loop from a socketed axehead. Also axeheads with loops were cast in one piece whereas this looks as if it had been soldered on. The loop is D-shaped in section and 6.74mm thick. The object is 23.74mm long and 18.94mm wide and weights 19g. It would have held a handle for the sheet copper alloy vessel. cf Langmaid 1976, 'Bronze Age Metalwork in England and Wales', page 58, no. 24.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Birch CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-759E98
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim and wall sherd from a cast copper-alloy tool or vessel, probably of the Bronze Age (c. 1500-800 BC). The rim is crescentric and flat. Below is a portion of wall with three uneven breaks. There is no decoration on the interior or exterior surfaces. The patina is dark green in colour, including on the break. The fragment is very worn and pitted. The fragment measures 32.5mm long, 14.8mm wide, 2.6mm thick and weighs 7.21 grams.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-A42602
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age (possibly) copper alloy fragment from a vessel.
Created on: Monday 10th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thatcham', grid reference and parish protected.