Record ID: CORN-112C1A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Gabbroic pot-sherd, of probable late Bronze Age date, although gabbroic clay has an extraordinarily long use-life, being seen in pottery in Cornwall all the way from the Neolithic, until the Romano-British period. Dimensions: Remaining length, 39mm. Remaining width (max), 32mm. Average thickness, 12mm. Weight: 25.05g.  
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: SF-FD3E8D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd from the body of an early Bronze Age vessel, dating to the period c.2350-c.1200 BC. Hard, coarse fabric containing plentiful poorly sorted quartz pieces (<2mm). The outer surface and core are an oxidised orange-red colour while the inner surface is a lighter grey. The outer surface is decorated with bands of three and two parallel lines of small square indentations. The fragment is too small to provide an indication of the original size and form of the vessel.  With thanks to Carlotta Marchetto, Oxford Archaeology East for identification help.  Length: 30.16mm, w…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-BF3F72
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A body sherd of a hand-made flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade coarseware bowl of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is sandy, reduced dark grey-black and tempered with moderately sorted sub angular calcined flint inclusions. The exterior surface has been burnished and has three decorative grooves running around the circumference at one end.
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2023
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Record ID: CORN-BBA689
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd of a storage vessel, likely from the Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC) but without decoration to confirm a date within the 2nd millennium BC. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 500 mm in diameter. The fabric, thickness and curvature is typical of what is locally term…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-9427DC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A body sherd of probable Early Bronze Age (2400 - 1500 BC) ceramic vessel, the fabric dark grey/ black in colour and rather fine with numerous micaceous inclusions and small quartzite inclusions. The inside surface is very smooth. The outside is possibly burnished and decorated with a grid pattern of vertical and horizontal lines, possibly corded. The fragment measures 34.2 x 20.5 x 7.3mm and weighs 5.39g. Lorraine Mepham, Wessex Archaeology, comments 'I don't think it's either Roman or Saxon [in date] .... I reckon it's something in that Early Bronze Age range. The fabric looks a …
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-A2CAA0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of body sherd from a pottery Bronze Age funerary urn or storage vessel. The exterior is decorated with parallel bands of impressed double twisted cord with no gaps between them, and is juxtaposed against another set of parallel bands of impressed cord at about a 45 degree angle, in two fields. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior with some black patches of residue which are likely sooting. The c…
Created on: Sunday 10th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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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
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Record ID: CORN-86552A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a pottery body sherd from a large Bronze Age urn or food vessel. The exterior is undecorated so that dating within the 2nd millennium BC is difficult. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and mica.The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more oxidised orange exterior. The curvature of the upper edge of the sherd suggests that the original diameter of the vessel would have been about 400 mm in diameter. The fabric, thickness and curvature is typical of what is locally term…
Created on: Saturday 22nd August 2015
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-3B801A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Six ceramic sherds, presumed from the same vessel.Prehistoric in date. The fabric is coarse material, dark brown at the core, reduced to pale to mid brown at the interior surface and variable at the surface between pale orange, pale grey, and grey-brown. The fabric contains an occasional sand temper, with rounded quartzite pebbles rare, and occasional angular black, iron-rich grits. Two of the sherds are rim fragment, showing an everted rim above an exterior ridge - this collared rim is consistent with food vessel forms of the Bronze Age period. Prehistoric (bronze Age) Dimensio…
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Record ID: LON-5A202E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age pottery, dating 1000-400 BC. The sherd is formed of a buff clay with coarse angular pebble inclusions. There is a slight curve to the fragment, suggesting it is from the body of a vessel. The outer surface is decorated in engraved linear designs, consisting of a single deeply incised line with smaller lines projecting from below. Dimensions: length: 48.22 mm; width: 45.23 mm; thickness: 6.95 mm; weight: 22.54g. The fragment has been identified by Lyn Blackmore, pottery specialist at MOLA.
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th December 2014
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Record ID: YORYM-FB65A5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
A coarseware handle of Bronze Age to Roman date (2350 BC- AD 410). The fabric is hand-formed, black at the core on one terminal only (where the handle has broken away with part of the vessel wall fabric) and otherwise pale orange throughout and at the surfaces. It is hand moulded and contains abundant, ill-sorted quartz (1.0 - 4.0mm) grits, many of which erupt at the surface. Given the variable oxidisation of the fabric, it is suggested that this vessel was fired on a bonfire, in which temperature and oxygen controls are limited.
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Record ID: LIN-7112CE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A body sherd from a ceramic Early Bronze Age (c.2350-c.1500 BC) vessel. The fabric is fairly hard and reddish buff on the outer half to black on the inner half. There are occasional black/dark grey inclusions. Overall the sherd measures 25.9mm long, 19.2mm wide and 9.0mm thick. It weighs 4.07g. The outer surface is has four lines of decoration, formed by impressing a cord into the clay.
Created on: Monday 15th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-EC87C5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery body sherd of a large urn or food vessel decorated with a parallel pair of a double-plaited or twisted cord impressions running horizontally across the upper half of the exterior of the sherd. Between these two borders are double-plaited cord impressed triangles, where the base of the triangle is parallel to the borders. The fabric is a gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) admixture with large inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite, mica and slate, and the decoration is typical of what is locally termed Trevisker ware, after a site in St Eval wher…
Created on: Monday 28th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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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: YORYM-05D9B0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Body Sherds: Six body sherd from a large coarseware ceramic urn of Prehistoric date. The material is hard, coarse, and coloured dark grey-black in the core and pale orange-brown at the surfaces. The fabric is laminated and tempered with frequent, ill-sorted, angular pebbles of an iron-rich stone (c.1.5 - 5.0mm in length). A fine micaceous dust is rare within the fabric. The natural iron within the stone has oxidised and is causing delamination of the fabric. A single fragment of possible burnt undiagnostic mammalian bone is associated with the ceramic sherds. Bronze-Age in date. …
Created on: Wednesday 12th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Record ID: CORN-F8B284
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery rim sherd of bucket-shaped food vessel, with a slightly everted rim and a decorated exterior from the rim to the break of the sherd. Below the rim is a horizontal row of circular dimples and one incised finger-nail impression in an arc above one dimple. Below the row of dimples are a series of vertical incised lines, which are almost parallel but carried out without a care for symmetry. The curvature of the rim suggests that the vessel would have had a diameter of about 200 mm. There are patches of burnt material, mainly on the interior of the sherd, which suggests that the ve…
Created on: Saturday 15th February 2014
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: WILT-CE9527
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd of a hand made middle to late Bronze Age vessel. The sherd has a mid to dark grey fabric with a lighter grey core and abundant burnt flint inclusions and abundant smaller white inclusions. The sherd is 44.7mm in length, 34.75mm wide, 15.05mm thick and weighs 27.36 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Last updated: Saturday 1st March 2014
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Record ID: FAKL-975F43
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd from a hand made ceramic vessel, undecorated. 38 x 25 mm, Thickeness 6,5/4.0, Mass 5.45g Medium hard fabric: sand filler, angular, fairly well sorted, grains up to 0.5mm, exterior surfaces of vessel oxidised, buff, interior reduced, dark grey.
Created on: Monday 1st April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
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Record ID: CORN-0B41D5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Large pottery body sherd of a large urn or food vessel decorated with a single line of a double-plaited or twisted cord impression running along the upper edge of the exterior of the sherd, where it has broken away from the rest of the vessel. This is probably the lower border of a panel of decoration which is normally found in the upper third of the pot, which can have combinations of twisted cord impressed chevrons and oblique lines between the horizontal borders. The fabric is a gabbroic admixture (Henrietta Quinnell pers comm) with large inclusions of pale feslpar, dark augite and…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2013
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lizard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6C1AA8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Three body sherds of Prehistoric (and probably Late Bronze Age, 1150-800 BC) flint-tempered earthenware, collectively weighing 22.2g and individually measuring: 27.79x29.97x8.89mm; 27.40x27.25x12.08mm; 19.03x21.97x6.88mm.
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shalbourne', grid reference and parish protected.