Record ID: SUSS-6AFC36
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age, socketed axe fragment dating from 1150 – 800 BC. The axe was found as a single find. Only a small fragment of the axe survives. The fragment represents part of the mouth and a small part of the body. The axe fragment survives in a very poor condition and much of the original surface has been lost. The mouth of the socket has two mouth mouldings. Below the lower moulding a hole has worn through the metal.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-6B5C80
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age, socketed axe fragment dating from 1150 – 800 BC. The axe was found as a single find. Only a small fragment of the axe survives. The fragment represents part of the mouth, the loop and a small part of the body. The axe fragment survives in a very poor condition and much of the original surface has been lost. The mouth of the socket has a mouth moulding. Below the lower moulding the loop extends out from the side of the axe. A casting line can be seen running from the mouth moulding and it continues along the loop.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6BB778
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint thumbnail scraper of probable early Bronze Age date. The scraper has been made froma tertiary flake. At the proximal end on the ventral surface is a bulb of percussion and a marked bulbar scar. Ripples radiate down the ventral surface. On the dorsal surface there are a number of flaking scars and the distal end has been abruptly retouched. The mid to dark grey flint has a mid-gloss patina. Dimensions: 32.4mm by 29.2mm by 9.3mm Weight: 9.9g
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Over Compton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6D0A27
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of late Bronze Age date. The fragment measures 42.3mm by 28.5mm by 5.4mm and weighs 27.7g. It comprises part of two sides of the socket, which has a thickened edge and an adjacent transverse linear moulding, and a short length of the axhead itself. There is a further longitudinal moulding in the centre of one of the surviving sides. A smaller fragment of copper alloy was found nearby. Although it does not appear to join with the larger fragment, the thickness, general appearance and patina are consistent and the two fragments may we…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Overcompton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6D7E72
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead or socketed chisel of late Bronze Age date. The fragment measures 32.3mm by 32.9mm by 8.6mm and weighs 12.8g. It comprises the straight cutting edge and a short length of the tapering axehead. One side survives more intact than the other. The socket reaches almost to the cutting edge. In the centre of each side there is a longitudinal casting seam.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-9872C6
Object type: MULLER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete fine-grained granite elvan muller or rubbing stone and small saddle quern. The muller is sub-oval in plan, with one rounded end and one flat, where the edge is broken. This edge is not as abraded as the rest of the rubber, suggesting that the surface was exposed after the rubber was originally deposited, and is therefore a later break. The stone is flat on the side that was used for rubbing, and concave on the opposite face, where it was used instead as a base for grinding. The muller would have been used with a larger saddle quern to grind grain between the stones to make f…
Created on: Sunday 27th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-BED1A1
Object type: POINT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large bone 'awl' type implement with angled cut across stem and drilled vertical longitudinal perforation (enlarging the natural perforation) at the 'haft' end. The point is made from bovine metatarus- back foot bone. It measures 126mm in length and 43mm in width. There are extensive longitudinal and part diagonal grooving probably resulting from use wear. The tip is rounded and polished. The flat butt end of the bone displaying slight small irregular 'block' with cracking, possibly relating from burning, this is not evident anywhere else. The bone is in good condition and medium…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C1F194
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a bronze rapier blade, other fragments of this rapier have been previously found in 2005 and 1992, see MNL 559 and MNL 446, in Suffolk SMR. This fragment is middle Bronze Age in date and measures 93mm in length, 22mm in width. One of the breaks on this fragment may be recent but the other is ancient. There is considerable recent linear scraping along the faces, probably due to agricultural damage, there is also some limited recent damage to the blade edges, though irregular notching appears ancient, possibly resulting from corrosion. The breaks therefore show no e…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-C3C8D1
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age flint dagger, measuring 165x61.5x22.5mm and weighing 216.01g. Both faces have been extensively flaked, with additional abrupt flaking all the way around the edges. One face has had many short flakes removed, but to one side only. This face has also had less abrupt working to the edges than the other face, and the point has not been worked, wheareas on the other face it has been, quite extensively, making it very sharp. The butt end is rounded but also quite sharp. The flint is dark grey/ black in colour with spots of a lighter brown. It also has a very light patination…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-427C56
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of pottery of probable Early to Middle Bronze Age date. The body sherds have oxidised orange external surfaces, more reduced buff internal surfaces and reduced buff/grey cores. The fabric contains moderate shell fragments (up to 8mm). Both sherds have external impressed decoration consisting of a linear band which is parallel to a band of small circular impressions. The sherds may come from urns. Total weight: 18g
Created on: Monday 4th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-565677
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Group of five flints of early Bronze Age date. 1:Reasonably large flint barbed and tanged arrowhead. End of one barb is missnh, end of other barb may also be snapped off. Squared tang. Unpatinated black flint, 43mm in length. 2: Fragment of a plano-convex knife with fine shallow edge retouch. Unpatinated dark black/brown flint. 3: Single edged knife balde with fine shallow edge retouch on long flake. Unpatinated medium to dark brwon flint. 4: Blade with parallel blade scars on dorsal face, all lightly patinated, retouched, unpatinated notch on one edge may be rec…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakenheath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-6D4737
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age socketed axe head, with three oblique ribs extending from the lower mouth moulding on both sides. A casting seam extends longitudinally down the centre of each of the two narrower faces; at the top of one of these faces this seam is interrupted by the remains of a side loop.
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ottery St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-7F3185
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age axe; Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy palstave. This is a shield-pattern palstave dating to around the 15th or 14th centuries BC. The palstave has a raised stop ridge between the flanges and there is a shield-shape in relief extending down from the stop ridge towards the blade. The flanges are quite high, giving a roughly diamond shape to the side of the body of the palstave. Length 136.5mm, width (blade) 51.4mm, width (at the stop ridge) 29.1mm, thickness (blade) 11.1mm, thickness (side flanges) 29.8mm, weight 408.7g
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-93DE63
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ring, with a thick D-shaped section. There are no markings on the exterior or the interior of the finger ring. No joint is visible. There is a indistinct circumferential rib running around the centre of the hoop. The copper alloy is a mid greyish-green colour, and it is heavily pitted. This ring is of uncertain date.
Created on: Friday 8th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Man', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-B2A682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axe head, missing its side loop, mouth and moulding. The mouth would have been sub-rectangular in plan. The surface is worn and pitted, especially along the casting seams, but there is a layer on one face that remains so that three ribs are still visible, between the side edges of the axe head. The ribs extend down about three quarters of the length of the body of the axe head, and the central rib is more pronounced and appears to be the longest. Half of the other face is missing, and has exposed the organic material still held within the axe. The…
Created on: Sunday 10th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-FFE594
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded copper-alloy sword fragment of probable late Bronze Age date. The straight, uniform nature of the top and bottom edges suggests that this piece was deliberately cut from a sword, probably from re-melting. The piece is roughly rectangular in plan and has an elongated lozenge-shaped section. The surfaces are corroded and on one side there are scratches, which may be deliberate and contemporary. The object measures 26.3mm wide, 15.9mm high and 5.8mm thick. The weight is 11.14g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-0118E5
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age arrowhead struck from red/brown flint.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-12C795
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age to Roman copper alloy 'model' (Robinson, Wiltshire Archaeology Magazine 1995) or possibly miniature socketed axehead, with traces of iron in the shallow socket (9.2x5.6x3mm). It measures 38.5mm in length and has a cutting edge max. 24.8mm wide. At the socket end (narrowest part) it is 16.8mm wide. It weighs 31.28g. The axehead is thinnest at the blade end (1.1mm thick) expanding over the length to 12.7mm at the socket end. The mouth has a slight moulding which is emphasised by a groove beneath it. The loop is cast to the side (and not part of the body of the a…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-295DE8
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy awl which could be Bronze Age or possibly Roman in date. Only one terminal and a fragment of the shaft of this awl now survives, the rest of it is missing due to an old break. The terminal has a square section and tapers to a worn rounded point, the shaft is rectangular in shape. The awl measures 44.99mm in length and 7.08mm in width.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-515AF1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age copper alloy short-flanged axe of the Taunton metalwork assemblage period, dating from circa 1400-1300BC. Although the axe is flanged there are no stop-ribs evident and therefore the axe is probably transitional in style and date between the winged axes and palstaves. Rowlands MJ; The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age (1976) BAR 31; cat no 190; plate 25; shows a good example of a short flanged axehead (all cast with no stops) from Little Shelford - Cambs. Similarly, Schmidt and Burgess; The axes of Scotland and Northern England (1981); Nos.…
Created on: Sunday 17th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.