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Record ID: OXON-D40785
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy axe of Later Bronze Age date (c.1600-800 cal BC).
The fragment is the blade end of the axehead that is truncated by a ragged transverse break cutting across its body and part of the blade edge. There is no trace of a socket at this broken end. The blade edge is convex while the the cross section of the axe at the break is a pointed oval. The fragment has a medium green patina that is pitted in places.
The axe is 44.5mm, long (representing just below the blade's width), 13.1mm wide and c.7.1mm thick and weighs 11.0 …
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Warborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-D27D3E
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of what is probably a copper alloy Bronze Age socketed axe head. The blade end survives although the cutting edge is blunt. It is hollow with a wall section of approximately 6mm. The blade is slightly flared towards the haft end. The break on each side is uneven, more material being present on one face than the other. The whole has a green patina with some light lichen growth
Dimensions: It is 50mm wide and 42mm long, and 20mm thick. It weighs 79.57g
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Near Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-BD21BF
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded cast copper fragment, possibly from the socket of a late Bronze Age to early Iron Age (c. 800-600 BC) socketed axehead. The fragment in 30.2mm in length and possibly comprises a corner of one lateral side of an object with a hollow interior and a sub rectangular cross section.
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-9AC1F7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable late Bronze Age fragment of a copper-alloy flanged socketed axehead.
It is relatively small, and less than 50% remains, however what does remain is in a relatively good state of presevation.
It has a dark grey-green patina (80%), and a light grey-green patina (20%). The broken edge is quite abraded, which suggests that the breakage occured in antiquity.
Socketed axeheads are ubiquitous across the Bronze Age period in Britain, however with so little of this axehead remaining, there are no discernible features remaining, thus rendering a more specific time period for this f…
Created on: Saturday 6th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: BUC-7FF6A7
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy middle to late Bronze Age knife or dagger, probably dating to c. 1150-850 BC. The fragment is rectangular in shape, and flat. It has a raised flat section running the length of the blade, the blade is lozenge shaped in cross section. The blade widens slightly in the centre, possibly suggesting that the knife was tanged. At one end there is a circular perforation, the knife is worn and broken around this. At the opposite edge the blade also ends in a worn break. It has a dark green patina, and measures 48.3mm in length, 18.4mm in width,…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-54A701
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Bronze Age axe, dating to c. 1500 - 800 BC. Axe head type not further defined, possibly a fragment of socketed axehead. The fragment is the blade end of the axehead with a ragged transverse break cutting across its body. There is no trace of a socket at this broken end. Beyond the break the axe widens in smooth concave curves to the blade edge which is slightly crescentic shaped.
Length: 23.7 mm
Width: 39 mm
Thickness: 10.9 mm
Weight: 37.5 g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3DC263
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint piercer made from a triangular fragment of dark grey flint, 57.1mm in length and of Bronze Age date. The tool has a long narrow projection which retains light brown cortex along one side; the other has been worked using abrupt scaled retouch to create a piercer. The tip appears to have broken.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D9D27
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A jagged and irregularly shaped tertiary flake of dark grey flint. One end has a triangular point which has been finely worked with long, semi abrupt and abrupt scaled retouch to create a functional piercer tool.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3D4986
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Bronze Age scraper struck from a nodule fragment of dark brown flint. The distal end is rounded with finely executed long, semi abrupt sub parallel retouch defining a working edge. The dorsal surface retains around 75% cortex and there is little in the way of a striking platform or other preparation suggesting that this is most likely a casually re-used primary waste flake from nodule reduction.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3CE55D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper of later Bronze Age date struck from a large nodule fragment of dark grey flint, which retains a buff coloured cortex across more than 60% of its dorsal surface. There is no striking platform or evidence of preparation, suggesting a casually re-used fragment of a nodule which may have been naturally broken. The distal end has long, semi abrupt retouch to define a working edge.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-43D12E
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy awl of probable middle to late bronze age date c. 1800-850 BC.
The short awl has a single point at one end (7mm long) with a circular cross-section. At the base of the point; the bar has a square-section which tapers in thickness into a chisel ended tang. The tang flares slightly in width at the terminal end suggesting it has been hammered flat. The object has a dark green patina.
Dimensions: length: 33.53mm, width: 5.05mm, thickness (maximum): 5.15mm, thickness (minimum) 1.86mm, weight: 2.82g
Plain awls are difficult t…
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: DEV-428127
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy slender Middle Bronze Age looped palstave, probably dating from c. 1500- 1150 BC. The cutting edge has a pronounced crescentic form with the tips re-curving back onto the expanding form of the blade though one sides curve is more pronounced than the other. There is slight damage to the cutting edge. The tops of the flanges on both sides are tall and the same height as the stop ridge down to the blade section in a leaf pattern. The septum is flat with a H shape and a casting pit in one side against the stop ridge. The casting lines …
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Harpford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-314F87
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short flanged Bronze Age axehead dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1500 - 1250 BC.
The axehead has short flanges with high sides, the general condition of the object is worn which distorts identification, but there is a median bevel on the septum of the axe, and a broad lentoid profile suggesting possible Acton Park phase, 1600-1400 BC.
The axehead is incomplete, with a break towards the butt.
Measurements
Length: 73.07mm
Width: 20.23mm
Thickness: 7.93mm
Weight: 51.02g
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Witham Friary', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-301047
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) Sutton type dating to the Early Bronze Age 2500 - 1500 BC.
The barbs are incomplete, and the tip of the arrowhead is missing, otherwise the arrowhead is in good condition.
The flint is glossy, dark brown, both faces are completely covered with invasive pressure flaking scars that overlap in the middle of each face, a larger flake scar on one side may indicate trace of original flake blank which the arrowhead was knapped from.
Barbed and Tanged arrowheads are associated with the Bronze Age Beaker Period, …
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2D0022
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost a complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) Green low type, though the barbs are around the same length as the tang (Green lows have longer barbs than the tang) the general form of the notches and the slightly drooping barbs fit within that group, there is a tiny amount of recent damage; one corner of the (rectangular) tang is missing as is the very tip if the point, otherwise it is in pristine condition, the flint is glossy, dark brown/grey with a very slight misty patination to parts of the surface, both faces are completely covered with invasive pressure flak…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2B3EC8
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy socketed axehead of late Bronze Age date (c 1000 - 800 BC) corresponding to the Ewert Park metalworking phase (Needham’s (1996) Period 7). The surviving portion of the axehead is 39.4mm in width and 47.5mm in length, comprising the front end which has a flared, semi circular blade, with rounded corners. There is no evidence of any decoration or casting seams. The break across the axehead reveals the interior to be hollow and the cross section to be of a sub rectangular shape.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1C8B8B
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertairy ?soft hammer struck flake with the bulb of percussion removed and neatly trimmed to a triangular shape by direct, steep percussion predominantly to the dorsal face, of slightly mottled dark grey flint with no patination. This is very likely to be an unfinished arrowhead, the profile is very straight for a struck flake, and the thickness is within the perfect range (4.6 mm), the trimming has evened out the curve already, the flake seems to have been worked into a blank then misplaced before the piece was extensively pressure flaked to its final shape, it is very likely this was…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1A4802
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H. S. (1980) type Sutton (tang longer than the barbs), of glossy unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint with invasive flake scars completely covering both faces and overlapping at the centre line, one barb appears to be complete, the other, larger barb is broken near the base of the notch, the tang is slightly off centre and is of rectangular shape. Early Bronze Age, 2,350 to 1,500 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-190487
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete plano-convex knife, made from a hard hammer struck tertiary flake of good quality dark grey/black flint with minimal patination, the ventral surface remains blank; as struck, the dorsal face has been extensively and invasively pressure flaked, the distal end of the knife is broken transversely across a thinner, weaker section of the knife. Early Bronze Age, 2,350-1,500 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: WMID-17187C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete flint scraper dating from Late Neolithic to Bronze Age. In plan the scraper is largely rectangular save for one rounded edge which is found on the left when facing the ventral side. The opposite edge is predominantly straight. In section, the tool curves slightly towards the dorsal face, and narrows in thickness towards the distal end. The thickest point is at the bulb of percussion. The scraper is a white/light grey patina and warm in tone, with no cortex visible. On the dorsal side there are areas of flake removal but there is limited evidence of retouching. At the pr…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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