Record ID: IOW-8F3C36
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axehead (1150 BC – 800 BC). Length 44.2mm, maximum width across the blade, 31.0mm and maximum thickness 16.8mm. Weight 46.11g. This fragment is the lower part of the blade of a socketed axe. From an old and abraded irregular break the sides flare outwards slightly (as viewed in plan) towards the cutting edge. At the top of the fragment the width is about 26.0mm and the maximum width of the blade at the bottom is 31.0mm. The blade does not flare sufficiently to form prominent blade tips. The cutting edge is slightly and eve…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SUSS-A0BE06
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age Ewart Park base metal founder's hoard dating to 1000-800 BC and consisting of 9 socketed axe fragments, 3 knife fragments, 2 sword fragments, 1 possible sickle fragment, 4 spearhead fragments, 1 incomplete mortising chiseland 1 casting jet. Where it has been possible to classify the socketed axeheads, all are of the South-Eastern type.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-58AE22
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Late Bronze Age date (1150 BC – 800 BC). Length 39.2mm, width 23.2mm and 9.1mm thick. Weight 21.32g. The fragment is part of the mouth and a small part of one face. The mouth is double-moulded. On the inside of the mouth there is a slight over-hang. The surviving part of the body has two vertical ribs on the face. One rib is clearly visible but only the top of the other rib has survived near the old break which forms the right hand edge (as viewed from the front). From the position of these two ribs, it can be estimated that th…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-5B0108
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed (probably) axehead of Late Bronze Age date (1150 BC – 800 BC). Length 32.1, width 33.2mm and 10.6mm thick. Weight 35.84g. The fragment is the lower part of the blade and the cutting edge. The base of the socket is visible along the old break where the metal is smooth and well patinated. Viewed in plan, the cutting edge is slightly and evenly curved with old damage along its edge. In profile, one side is slightly convex and the other side is slightly concave. Viewed from the side it is deeply V-shaped. The fragment is corroded but in a …
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', 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.

Record ID: LEIC-69E657
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age flint scraper, 26mm long, 25mm wide and 8mm thick. The flint has a deep brown patina and weighs 6grams. Its upper surface is primary cortex and it is steeply worked around all of its edges, with fine re-touch on one side. It has a clear striking platform on its reverse.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-A56AE4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, c. 2500 – 1500BC The arrowhead is complete, with a length of 29.77mm, a maximum width across the barbs of 24.03mm and has a weight of 2.7g. The arrowhead was made on a flake with minimal working to the ventral face. The flake has a convex profile with a thickness of 4.58mm. The dorsal face has been carefully worked by pressure flaking. The flint has patinated pale-grey.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2007
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: IOW-0EB532
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Late Bronze Age date (1150 BC – 800 BC). Length 37.3mm, width 30.0mm and 30.5mm thick. Weight 36.56g. The fragment consists of part of the mouth, part of the body and a complete loop. The mouth appears to have been sub-rectangular when it was complete and has a single mouth moulding which has a depth of about 12.5mm and a maximum thickness of 8.9mm. Just below the mouth moulding there is a minor horizontal rib. The top of the loop is attached to the body just below the mouth moulding at the same level as the minor rib. The l…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3C3B46
Object type: MOULD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete single bronze valve from two-piece looped palstave mould of middle Bronze Age date. The blade end and 'corner' are missing due to an ancient patinated break. It measures 170mm in length and 60mm in width. Interior: Impression of a single looped palstave with sub-triangular ribs surrounding a raised central sub-triangular pendant decoration just below the septum stop-ridge. It has slightly convex developed flanges (developed shield pattern) with a continous stop ridge. The flanges on the edge of the mould have four small concave sockets to fit matching knobs on t…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 5th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hempnall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4E3245
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of early Bronze Age date. The arrowhead measures 27.3mm by 21.3mm by 3.9mm and weighs 1.6g. It has been invasively retouched over both faces. One tang has broken off. Both the tang and the surviving bard are rounded. The barbs are slightly longer than the tang so this example is a Green Low type. The mottled white to bluish-grey flint has a low-gloss patina.
Created on: Friday 29th June 2007
Last updated: Saturday 11th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nynehead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E20310
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age copper alloy blade fragment, 36mm long, 17mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 7.21 grams. The object is rectangular in form with a convex section. it is 3mm thick in its centre, tapering to about 1mm at the blade edge, these are very badly damaged and uneven.
Created on: Friday 6th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-E542B4
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age? copper alloy casting sprue, 20mm long,, 17mm wide and 14mm thick. The object is in a fair condition with a green patina and weighs 10.54grams. The object consists of an oval uppper surface with tapering sides which terminate in two circular sectioned protrusions. These are formed by excess metal from a mould, possibly for an axe?
Created on: Friday 6th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-5BAAA7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Neath Port Talbot
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe of South Eastern Type and of Ewart Park metalworking phase, corresponding to Needham's (1996) period 7, c. 950-750BC. The axe is near-complete, missing only the loop and has a length of 86.9mm and has a weight of 146.2g. The mouth is comparatively square with an external width (between sides) of 37.0mm (27.9mm internal) and breadth (between faces) of 34.1mm (25.8mm internal). The socket has a depth of 72.4mm with no evidence of internal ribs. The mouth is uneven and appears to have had a prominent rounded mouth moulding. The axe has a weaker moul…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-A14B15
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Doctor Bruce Bradley, of Exeter University writes: 'The polished flint artefact is an extremely re-worked fragment of an early Bronze Age skeuomorphic axe (copying an Early Bronze Age copper axe).'
Created on: Friday 27th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-77BD13
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age founder's hoard. Report by Sally Worrell: "This group of 56 artefacts represents a diverse and extensive range of artefact types. All the artefacts date from the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age (1000-800 BC). The artefacts were found scattered over a small area and were probably dispersed due to the actions of the plough. The majority of the artefacts are types whoch commonly occur in Late Bronze Age hoards in south-0eastern Britain. There are 7 complete, 10 incomplete and 7 fragments of socketed axes representing a minimum of at least 16 axes; the …
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-894E92
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age/ Middle Bronze Age short flanged chisel or very narrow axe in quite fresh condition, with small part of one end of cutting edge and patches of the patinated surface missing. There is no stop ridge but the broad faces of the haft slope up quite abruptly to meet the full thickness of the blade. The flanges run from this point to the butt. One face of the blade is bevelled above the cutting edge. Length 111mm. Width 21mm. Thickness 14mm. Weight 98.77g. This dates to the transitional period from the end of the Early Bronze Age and the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, c…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garvestone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1C2C53
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of nineteen incomplete and fragmentary gold items of Middle Bronze Age date: 1. Bar torc (part) of triangular cross section, with simple hooked terminal. It is roughly and loosely coiled and irregularly twisted. The torc was originally untwisted and penannular in shape, the twisting and distortion to its shape occurred at the time of coiling, probably shortly before final deposition. Length 560mm. Triangular cross section, sides 3.9mm. Weight 53.92g. NB - 6 is part of this torc giving a total length (circumference) of 700mm (equivalent to a diameter of c. 223mm) and weight of …
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Priddy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-2FEED3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age hoard of 12 copper alloy objects. The following information is taken from the Treasure report, written by Sally Worrell, Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Advisor for Prehistoric, Iron Age and Roman artefacts: The items are from a minimum of one socketed axe, two socketed gouges and nine fragments of raw metal copper ingot. The non-ingot fragments are all fragmentary and show signs of having been deliberately broken for inclusion as scrap metal. Ingots of raw material are a well-known feature of this particular period in southern England. The presence of axe and g…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Talaton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-434896
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age gold ring, Diameter 14x12.5mm. Diameter of rod 3mm. Weight 4.39 grams. Small gold ring comprising a length of round-sectioned gold rod; the plain, flat terminals meet (but not perfectly). While this object belongs broadly to the class of Bronze Age penannular rings, it has more in common with the Middle Bronze Age type which includes composite rings than with the later Bronze Age series. Simple rings of plain round-sectioned rod have been found in association with Middle Bronze Age composite rings in North East Norfolk (G Varndell in Treasure Annual Report 2004) and in the …
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'earl shilton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-45C591
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
CORONER'S REPORT Description A late Bronze Age penannular gold ring of oval cross-section. The piece originally had alternate stripes of yellow and paler gold although this is now barely visible except internally where the surface is less worn. Measurement of specific gravity indicated that it comprises a gold covering over a base metal core. Composition Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of a very worn striped penannular ring indicated for the yellow stripes a gold content of 79-83% , a silver content of 13-17%, the remainder being copper. The gold…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Theydon Mount CP', grid reference and parish protected.