Record ID: NMGW-C55A71
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper flat axe, of Type 2C or 2D (following Needham forthcoming) or probably of Type Ballybeg / Roseisle (following Schmidt and Burgess 1981) of Metalworking Assemblage I-II, corresponding with the earlier part of Needham's (1996) Period 2, dated to c. 2,300 - 1,900BC. The axe-head is near-complete and has an overall length of 126.9mm and has a weight of 422.0g. The relatively broad butt appears slightly damaged and is convex with rounded shoulders and has a width of 34.2mm. The sides are straight across the thickness of the axe, giving the axe a rectangular body …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: HESH-840406
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy (bronze) metalwork, probably part of Middle – Late Bronze Age spearhead (c. 1500-800 BC). The fragment is incomplete and irregular, being broadly sub-rectangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. From the shape of the cross section it is possible the fragment is from the upper socket or blade of the spear, the cross section is a little artificial in that the outer surface is curved and the broken edges are both on the underside / reverse, suggesting it is part of a much rounded artefact. The curvature of the fragment is similar to that seen on the up…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Radnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-51EFD6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe of Ewart Park metalworking phase, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 7, dated to c. 950 - 750BC. The axe is of uncertain type, probably of faceted type (Type Meldreth (Schmidt & Burgess, 1981, p 204-5) ). The axe is incomplete, missing the mouth and upper body (with a surviving length of 66.1mm and a weight of 77.3g). The body of the axe is slender (with a minimum surviving width at the break of 24.2mm). The sides of the axe are concave and expand at the blade to produce a moderately curved blade. The loop is not present on the incomp…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: CPAT-2B31A0
Object type: AXE HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
This is a (very) small early Bronze Age/late Neolithic perforated stone axe hammer. The axe is in the form of a ‘teardrop’ with a parallel profile. The perforation is ‘egg timer’ shape, opening from a central diameter of 13.5 mm to 20.7 mm at the outer surface. The overall style is consistent with an early class 1 Axe Hammer from Roe’s ‘Typology of Stone Implements with Shafts’. However, whilst the profile fits, the size does not. This object is very small at just 7.32 cm long, the more typical axe hammer is double that and more. This particular implement may t…
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Record ID: CPAT-C6C082
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a lower blade end fragment of a copper alloy, Late Bronze Age socketed axehead (possibly in the Llyn Fawr style). In this instance, the blade has no flare to the tips and a cutting edge of 62mm against the width of 53.8mm; it was therefore, a substantial axe. There are no visible mould marks to the sides. The socket, or what remains of it, is a flat sided oval in form. There is little of the original surface remaining and that which does remain, is in poor condition. However, in that surface, there is evidence of use with vertical gouges and what might be horizontal stria…
Created on: Thursday 2nd July 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-53DDB6
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This copper alloy lump has been consciously shaped and has some antiquity to it. It is possibly Bronze Age, as to function; it is possibly a casting sprue. See find number WAW-48D8F4 for a parallel. In support of the date, it was found near the location of five scattered BA palstaves. One other possibility would be that of a gaming piece, perhaps Roman in date.
Created on: Saturday 7th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2013
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Record ID: CPAT-765380
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age looped palstave with plain, narrow blade and slight splay to the cutting edge. It has a straight stop-ridge and is characteristic of the products of the north Wales industry. Similar examples have come from Llanbeblig and Great Orme's Head (Caernarfonshire) and Maentwrog (Merionethshire). It is also represented in the Guilsfield Hoard (Savory, H N, 1980). The loop is missing, probably lost in antiquity and it is suffering from bronze disease. It has also been damaged since its discovery.
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Record ID: NMGW-E18632
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe, probably dated to the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, c. 950 - 750BC. The axe is incomplete and is missing the mouth and much of one face. The axe may be judged a small example with a maximum surviving length of 66.00mm and has a width of 32.05mm beneath the loop. The socket has a maximum surviving depth of 50.76mm and has the suggestion of an internal rib on the looped side, ending 23.8mm from the base of the socket. The axe has broken across the loop, which is comparatively substantial with a width of 9.21mm. The sides are slightly concave and th…
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: WMID-6A0226
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete cast bronze palstave axehead, dating to the Middle Bronze Age between 1500 - 1150 BC (length: 150mm; width at blade tip: 59.5mm; thickness at flange side: 29mm; weight: ). At the rear of the axehead, the butt is (although corroded) rounded in plan and termintes to a point in side-section. The septum of the artefact is 68mm long and 19mm wide with flange facets that extend upwards on the front and back of the artefact as well as to either side on each face by approximately 10mm in height. The stop half way down the palstave is more prominent on one side in compa…
Created on: Monday 19th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Caereinion', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CPAT-39E106
Object type: SADDLE QUERN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken slab of stone with a large dished area worn in the top of one of the flat faces creating a gentle U-shaped profile. Probably the broken base stone of a saddle quern. Found eroding from spoil excavated from a silted-up pond. Possibly prehistoric in date but of such simple technology that it could date from virtually any later era.
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-3A0180
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Late Bronze Age, copper-alloy, looped, socketed axehead. It has 3 parallel ribs running along either side of the blade, a double moulding around the mouth and a distinctive lump between the loop and the blade. A very similar example was excavated from the Breiddin Hillfort (about 10km away) and this form is a common type in north and east Wales and the Marches (Musson, C R et al 1991, pp133 & 136). Three axeheads were found at Cherrytree Bank, Welshpool in 1977 (CPAT PRN2192). Two were donated to Powysland Museum, the third was retained by the finder (or a member of his fam…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-D57467
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
The palstave appears to have lost about 20mm from the butt in antiquity, but in other respects is in very fine condition, though beginning to lose small patches of its fine patinated surface, especially around the sharp recurved blade. The surviving length is 130mm, probably originally 148mm; the width of the blade is 65mm, of the septum 25mm, and the depth of the flanges is 28mm. The face view has an essentially straight septum and wide blade; the side view a smooth curve from blade to flange. The ledge stop is approximately square in face view and there is a hollow at the base of …
Created on: Friday 3rd October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-718725
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of Ewart Park metalworking tradition (c. 1000-800 BC). The axe is of South Wales (Stogursey) Type and is typical of Ewart Park axe heads found in south east Wales. The axe is comparatively short and squat. The socket is sub-rectangular, within an irregular mouth, clearly showing remnants of all four casting runners. The loop is of lozenge section and begins immediately beneath the simple angled collar moulding. The sides curve gently to a slightly expanded blade, producing a curved blade edge. The casting seams shows signs of finishing, probably by hammeri…
Created on: Friday 28th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Record ID: CPAT-D84B66
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade of a Bronze Age palstave, broken at the stop-ridge. It has a single, central midrib and the sides flare out slightly towards the gently curved blade. Much of the original surface has been lost, although one side is in better condition than the other. It is not possible to say whether it ever had a loop. Colour is various shades of green (Spencer, J, 2012)
Created on: Wednesday 9th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2013
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Record ID: CPAT-46AD6C
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cobble-sized irregular lump of flint with several areas of crushing suggestive of past use as a hammerstone. It also appears that at least one flake may have been struck from it. A roughly triangular area of whitish cortex survives on one surface, elsewhere the flint ranges in colour from cream to light green-grey to green-black. A chance find whilst metal detecting (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, January 2015).
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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Record ID: WMID-798FF7
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete decorated Flat Axe / axehead of Early Bronze Age Period, date (2000-1700 BC). The general form of the axe is complete, however it has suffered significant loss from corrosion at both the cutting edge and the butt. In plan the axe is broadly rectangular with narrow rounded butt and expanded / splayed cutting edge. In profile the axe is lentoid. In section the axe is broadly rectangular (rectangular with rounded edges) and there are no signs of raised flanges or hafting augmentation. There is also no sign of a proto stop ridge / median bevel. The surface patina has be…
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-475C27
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed tool, probably a hammer of c. 1200 - 700BC The tool is near-complete with some peripheral damage and is very-heavily corroded and pitted (with a length of 61.6mm and a weight of 99.4g). The mouth is rectangular (29.2mm long and 19.4mm wide) and of variable thickness, with one side edge (6.7mm thick) being considerably thicker than the other side (5.0mm thick) or either face (4mm thick). The socket is also rectangular (8.1mm x 10.9mm and 40.5mm deep). There was a mouth moulding (7mm long), which appears to have been a simple collar but is poorly preserved. T…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-926DB6
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead has been knapped from a uniform grey coloured piece of flint. The arrowhead is broadly sub-triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. It has been knapped using a number of different techniques, including direct and indirect percussion, as well as pressure / ripple / invasive flaking. It is unsymmetrical in shape with one barb being lost. The break is old and patinated suggesting damaged in antiquity. Both the long sides of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edges - this retouch is bes…
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Radnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-905653
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Cast bronze (copper alloy) flat axe of early Bronze Age date (2000-1700BC). The axe is complete with very little wear. In plan the axe is broadly rectangular with an expanded and splayed crescentic cutting edge and thin rectangular (rectangular with rounded edges) shaped butt. In profile the axe has a distinct lentoid shape. In section the axe is broadly rectangular (rectangular with rounded edges) and there are no signs of raised flanges or hafting augmentation. At the mid-point of the axe is a slight median swelling / bevel / proto stop-ridge. The long edges of the axe expand slight…
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'knighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-719BD3
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and corroded Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy Group I or III palstave (1500-1300 BC). A copper alloy palstave with shield shaped pattern below the stop ridge, and raised flange facets. The blade of the palstave is sub-triangular in plan with rounded blade tips, one tip in particular is heavily abraded. The surface of the blade has traces of hammer marks forming lines which cross the blade. The cutting edge is rounded due to abrasion. The sides of the blade are concave in plan, and this curvature stops at the nicks at the junction of the blade and flange side. In profile …
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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