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Record ID: WAW-69DB83
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 6.33mm thick and weighs 4.9g. It is 27.35mm long and 30.49mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog, frequent mica inclusions. Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 6.33mm Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, unoxidised interior. Hardness: Hard Surface …
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-69FD01
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 7.98mm thick and weighs 4.2g. It is 21.23mm long and 26.49mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog, frequent mica inclusions. Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 7.98mm Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior. Hardness: Hard Surface te…
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-6A2060
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 11.11mm thick and weighs 7.6g. It is 27.85mm long and 35.98mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog, frequent mica inclusions. Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 11.11mm Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior. Hardness: Medium Surfac…
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-6C5403
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 13.07mm thick and weighs 35.3g. It is 49.43mm long and 58.69mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to is similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC). Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog and fossil shell (occasionally leached) Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 13.07mm Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, interior surface lost. Hardness…
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-6C6FA6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two bodysherds of a two separate ceramic vessels. Sherd 1 is 9.60mm thick and weighs 8.6g. It is 28.67mm long and 36.36mm wide. Sherd 2 is 11.88mm thick and weighs 20.8g. It is 38.42mm long and 50.40mm wide. Together both sherds weigh 29.3g. The sherds consist of bodysherds both in a fabric similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC). Sherd 1 specific details: Fabric type: grog and fossil shell inclusions Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 9.60mm Firing…
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-6C8245
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a fired clay object. The fragment exhibits voids from organic plant material, suggesting that it is a fragment of daub, used for constructing a wattle & daub structure. The sherd is 9.54mm thick and weighs 7.6g. It is 23.52mm long and 34.39mm wide. The sherd consists of a fragment, in a fabric is similar to to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog tempered Sherd type: fragment Wa…
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-78E7B5
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint retouched flake, with obtuse striking platform, hard hammer struck, possibly a scraper. Unpatinated and Bronze Age in date.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7BA921
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of early Bronze Age date. The arrowhead measures 26mm by 18.5mm. It has been invasively retouched over both faces. As the arrowhead weighs less than 8g and has a small length to width ratio, it is an example of the Sutton type.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Harptree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7C5E60
Object type: END SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 Late Prehistoric scrapers: End on long secondary flake with cortex on right lateral edge. Steep, rather coarse retouch. End and left side scraper edges on small oval, sidestruck. secondary flake. Retouch on distal edge is rather irregular: that on the left side is finer and more regular but is ventral. Probably late prehistoric, i.e. Late Bronze or Iron Age.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bunwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CPAT-D25B04
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small (110mm long), unlooped palstave with a narrow blade which has only a slight splay towards the cutting edge (min. width of blade-face= 21mm, max.= 28mm). There is a single mid-rib on either face of length c.45mm which fades out c.30mm before the curved cutting edge. The blade-tips have rounded corners with no recurve. The septum is quite small (length=36mm, min. width=13mm, max.=22mm) with very slight flanges (max. height=2mm). The stop ridge is straight and one side is slightly higher than the other (width at stop-ridge=22mm). There are also traces of a casting-scar on one sid…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
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Record ID: BERK-141237
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy Bronze Age Bead. The bead is roughly bi-conical in shape with a slightly raised flat ridge running around the circumference. The central hole as a diameter of 5.6mm. Beads of this type were produced in gold and copper-alloy during the Bronze Age.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT-36D683
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy palstave axehead. Very corroded.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th October 2021
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Record ID: CPAT-3A15F5
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy knife-dagger 103mm in length, 38mm in width (max.), with ogival form and single mid-rib. The edges are bevelled (bevels up to 4mm in width) and some of the surface scratches may be evidence of sharpening, only parts of the blade-edge survive. Two incomplete rivet holes can be discerned at the damaged butt, but insufficient of either survive to allow the diameters to be established. The thickness ranges from 4mm towards the tip to 2mm at the base. There is much pitting and other areas of corrosion on the surface. While it is similar to two daggers illustrated in the N…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-8DDA78
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 11.11mm thick and weighs 8.0g. It is 26.58mm long and 30.87mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC) but without the fossil shell. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog, frequent mica inclusions. Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 11.11mm Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, unoxidised interior. Hardness: Hard Surfac…
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-8E18A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bodysherd of a handmade ceramic vessel. The sherd is 7.50mm thick and weighs 3.3g. It is 16.40mm long and 24.03mm wide. The sherd consists of a bodysherd, in a fabric is similar to similar to that published as GR2 (fine grog/clay pellet with some leached shell) in McSloy 2007, p 25, dated to the Bronze Age (c.2150 BC to c.800 BC). Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Grog and fossil shell (occasionally leached) tempered Sherd type: bodysherd Wall thickness: 7.50mm Firing condition: unoxidised exterior, unoxidised core, unoxidised interior. Hardness: Hard…
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-8E2DF3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body fragment of a handmade vessel. The wall is 9.64mm thick. The fabric has small to medium sized shell fragments and large fine grained light grey stone inclusions. The fabric has a mottled mid grey coloured core, with a mottled dark grey/brown interior and a light yellow/brown coloured exterior. The sherd is not abraded. It weighs 8.2g. The sherd probably dates to the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age period (c. -1150 to c. -300).
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-92DF35
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragement of prehistoric pottery, probably Bronze Age or Iron Age in date. It measures 41x37.5x11mm and weighs 26.1g. The fabric has large chalk inclusions.
Created on: Sunday 7th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
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Record ID: NCL-9F0675
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age hoard. 1. Spearhead blade fragment. The upper part of a probable leaf-shaped blade with convex edges. The break is corroded. The midrib is round in section, but none of the socket survives. The hollowed edge bevels are fairly broad. Length: 73 mm; width: 33 mm; thickness: 13.5 mm; weight 41.9 g. 2. Bugle-shaped fitting. Complete, two-part bugle-shaped fitting, the two parts being fused together by corrosion. Component A is a D-shaped loop of thick round section with a thinner rectangular staple appended to the flat side. The staple is slotted in…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: ESS-B45387
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment. Only half of the socketed end survives, the blade end is completely missing. The mouth is oval and has a moulded rim which is 8.55mm high. The loop has a casting seam along its edge. The loop is completely filled with corrosion products. The surface of the metal is corroded and has a patchy dark brown patina. The breaks are old and worn. The surviving section measures 39.97mm in length, is 26.64mm wide, 21.85mm thick. The socket wall is 3.31mm thick. The loop is 21.70mm long and 8.56mm thick. The fragment weighs 30.95 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyverstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B46EE5
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age (1100-1000BC) cast copper alloy horse harness equipment. The fitting is part of a composite strap distributor. The fitting is in the form of a ‘toggle’, which is circular in plan with a central hole and a concave top edge. The main body of the fitting measures 30.29mm wide, 24.66mm long and is 13.03mm thick at the base, decreasing to a thickness of 9.94mm at the top edge. The central hole has a diameter of 5.81mm. The main body is hollow and has a sub-circular cross section. There is a sub-rectangular suspension/attachment loop projecting from the upper edge. This l…
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavenham', grid reference and parish protected.