Record ID: SUR-F52494
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a flange- or bar-twisted gold torc, 39.7mm in length, dating to the Middle Bronze Age (probably Penard phase) c. 1300 - 1100 BC. The torc has a x-shaped cross-section with four flanges twisted into a spiral with a circular cross-section of 6.6mm diameter. Both ends of the fragment are abraded and one appears to have been crushed. It is unclear whether the fragment has broken off from or been cut from the original torc.
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-8A035F
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold penannular ring of late Bronze Age date. The ring is 17.5mm in diameter and has a circular cross section of 6mm diameter, with a gap of 2mm between the flat ends. The ring appears to be solid gold rather than plated as there are no evident cracks or fracturing in the surface which would be expected from corrosion of a copper alloy core. No decorative banding is evident.
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-2655B2
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A folded fragment of a gold band or ribbon with repousse linear ribs of probable Bronze age date c. 2100 BC - 1150 BC. Description: the rectangular fragment has been folded twice into three layers. Unfolded it would have been approximately 20mm x 16mm. The visible long broken edge is split in three places, the edges folded inward with fresh breaks. The short side edges appear less ragged and possibly represent the original width of the ribbon. The ribbon is decorated with 19 or 20 repousse plain linear ribs, running vertically from the long edge…
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Over Wallop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-CDCA77
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (probably Penard phase, c. 1300 - 1100 BC) flange- or bar-twisted gold torc. The fragment is straight with breaks at either end. The torc has a x-shaped cross-section with four flanges, although they twist in such a way as to give a circular cross-section around the flanges. The breaks are quite sharp, suggesting they could be quite recent. The bend is not quite at the centre of the object.
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-5B9EEE
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold bi-partite penannular ring dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age c. 1300-800 BC.  The ring is comprised of two penannular rings of gold stacked one on top of the other and soldered together. Each ring is sub-circular (oval) in cross-section and sub-circular (oval) when viewed in plan. The terminals are flat one with a crack and another with a lenticular hole with possible void beneath. The external surfaces is scuffed with light scratches.  Measurements: The ring is 13.85 mm long, 12.69 mm wide at the gap and 6.46 mm …
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cheriton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-275770
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small penannular ring comprising a plain round to oval-sectioned hoop with flat terminals. The interior of the hoop and the flat terminal surfaces have not been polished. Gold content approximately 82%. The specific gravity at 16 is not low enough to indicate that the ring has a base metal core.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BERK-86D781
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete sub rectangular strip of flat sheet gold. The front is decorated with 10 longitudinal groves. The lines are all parallel to each other, possibly made with a comb or similar tool. Both ends appear complete. One terminal is rounded and the other is straight. At each terminal is a small, circular hole. The strip has been perforated from the decorated side. The reverse is undecorated. The strip is slightly crumpled and was found folded but was straightened by the finder. It unclear whether the object was folded pre or post-deposition as no photos of the strip were taken by t…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Longstock CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-259538
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An apparently complete, though slightly squashed, Late Bronze Age (1000-800 BC) gold penannular ring (or 'lock-ring'). It is hollow and triangular in cross-section, formed of two flat (angled) outer faces and an internal slightly concave face. The damage to one of the outer faces reveals a hollow interior and the faces formed of conjoined, narrow, circular-sectioned gold wires. There are sixteen of these wires on each outer face with an additional spinal wire at the outermost join and a wire forming the outer edges of the internal face along the opposite (inner) join. The inter…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C7CFA4
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a strip of ribbon gold, dating to the Bronze Age c. 2200 - 800 BC. One side is covered with parallel grooves running along its length, the other is undecorated. The original width of the strip would have been 8.5mm and it is 0.5mm thick. The fragment has been folded diagonally across its width and is now triangular in shape; it is unclear whether this is intentional or simply the result of post-depositional damage. One end has been neatly cut across the width, the other is less regularly cut or torn. The cut suggests a process of re-use or recycling of the original ribbo…
Created on: Sunday 17th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2022
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Record ID: SUR-C145ED
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold, or gold-plated copper alloy penannular ring of late Bronze Age date. The ring has a near-circular cross section, 7.5mm thick and is 20.5mm in diameter with a 2.4mm gap between the ends. The surface is plated as is demonstrated in several places by damage (notably on one of the ends) which reveals a copper alloy core within. There is no sign of banding in differential shades of gold, this being a common form of decoration on similar rings. Diameter 20.5mm; thickness 7.5mm; weight 13.17g.
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2022
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Record ID: SUR-8E1010
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold plated Bronze Age penannular striped ring with silvery gold alloy wire circumferentially inlaid. The body is circular in cross-section and it is decorated with broad stripes. Gold plating covers the whole of the core and is seamless over the body of the ring. The circumferential pattern of stripes is spiral and it is wound in a clockwise direction. It appears to be produced by inlaying a continuous strip of silvery gold around the ?copper alloy core to give the appearance of alternating stripes of gold and silver. Maximum diameter 20mm; internal diameter 6.5mm; thickness o…
Created on: Friday 27th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 27th August 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-2419C2
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold (or gold plated) penannular ring of mid to late Bronze Age date (c.1300-750 BC.). The body is oval in cross-section. The ring is undecorated, but the outer surface has feint scratches. One face has a small indentation near the left terminal (gap at the bottom) and scratches across the width of the ring. The other face has scratches across the length of the ring (ie the scratches are at a 90 degree angle on the two faces). The terminal surfaces are both flat, but each has a small 'U' shaped mark (the bottom of the U towards the …
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-0FCEE9
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold artefact of Bronze Age date. It comprises a crumpled strip of sheet or ribbon gold around 63.7mm in length, decorated with around 10 parallel ridges running along its length across one side; the reverse is undecorated. There is a partial tear across the mid section, probably from post depositional damage. The object has a rounded terminal with a ragged pierced oval hole. The other end of the object tapers into a narrow square-sectioned hook which curves under the plate and ends up 2mm wide. The surface of this terminal is smooth and undecorated, with the …
Created on: Monday 10th August 2020
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-055182
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A strip of ribbon gold, dating to the Bronze Age c. 2200 - 800 BC. One side is covered with 14 parallel grooves running along its length, the other is undecorated. There is damage to one side at the mid point where the strip is buckled; both ends are cut. There are no piercings or evidence for fittings. Length: 37.2mm; Width: 9.2mm; Thickness: 0.3mm; Weight: 1.1g.
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-BE4072
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) gold or gold-plated copper alloy penannular ring, oval in cross-section with cut or burred-over edges at the terminals. The edge opposite the terminal has a cross-section measuring 7.5 x 7.9mm. A paler gold strip or wire (possibly silvery-gold with some evidence of tarnishing, mostly on the inside of the ring) winds around the brighter gold surface of the object to give striped bands of equal size, c. 1mm wide. The object measures 18.5mm in length, 19.8mm in width, 7.9mm in max.thickness (the side opposite to the terminal) and weighs 13.14g.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-1AE2BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A probably incomplete and bent pointed-oval shaped piece of sheet gold 0.4mm thick, of possible Bronze Age date (2,500-800 BC). The long edges are both jagged and circa one third is folded transversely back on/ under itself. The terminal at the shorter end appears complete. It narrows to a point which is again folded back on itself, perhaps incidentally or perhaps intentionally - it could be interpreted as a hook. The terminal at the opposite end also narrows to a point and is intentionally cut in a straight diagonal on one edge. This terminal is also folded back on itself. As the obj…
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 27th July 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-37143A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An unidentified sheet-gold bag-shaped object, with one closed, rounded end and a narrower open end with a piercing to one face only (apparently). The object is perhaps of Bronze Age date (2,500-800 BC) and related to gold ornaments/ strips known from the Bronze Age of Southern England. Both faces of the object retain traces of decoration in the form of numerous longitudinally-arranged raised ridges of rectangular section, parallel to each other. It isn't possible to determine what the reverse of the sheet-gold looks like. To one edge of the object the sheet is unbroken/ undamaged …
Created on: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2020
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Record ID: DOR-CA8860
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold plated penannular ring. Small penannular ring with a copper core and thick gold sheet covering. The gold has decorative banding in narrow stripes formed by bands of yellow gold and paler, silver rich gold. It has a sub-circular cross section and the ends of the terminals are flat. One terminal retains a gold end cap, the other is missing, exposing the copper alloy core of the ring.It may be similar to Date: Late Bronze Age - c. 1150 - 800 BC Dimensions: 14.86 mm x 14.05 mm x 4.41 mm Weight: 4.13 g Also similar to DOR- 0A6139, DOR-D914C7 and DOR-18E227
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goodworth and Clatford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-FE959E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold unidentified object possibly of the Bronze Age period, dating to 1500 BC- 800 BC. This consists of a rectangular strip of metal which has been rolled into a cylinder with wrapped overlapping terminals, the item has been subsequently squish resulting in its current flattened form. The outer face of the cylinder is decorated with eight parallel grooves running lengthwise. Discussion: This multi-grooved strip of gold is possibly a bead of potential Bronze Age date. It is similar to several examples recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme and dated to the Late Bronze …
Created on: Thursday 30th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Appleshaw', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-E74001
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) small gold penannular ring, circular in cross-section with cut terminals, the gap between them measuring 1.8mm wide. The circular cross-section measures 3.1mm, narrowing at the terminals to 2.8mm. The object is oval in overall shape, measuring 14.0mm in length, 12.5mm in width, 3.1mm in max.thickness and weighs 3.56g.
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
Spatial data recorded.