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: 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: CPAT-5F0B55
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A small, narrow-butted copper-alloy flat axe from the Early Bronze Age. The rounded cutting edge (37mm wide) shows signs of having been slightly flared, though one side is partly missing. The body of the axe has a bevel, approximately 55mm from the cutting edge, but this is not very pronounced. The axe tapers back to a thin, semi-circular butt (19mm wide). The axe is heavily corroded with no sign of decoration. Note - Peter Reavill - 18/5/21. Thanks are extended to Dr Brendan O'Connor who has suggested that this axe form is now better understood after the recent publication …
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Record ID: CPAT-633D63
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow-bladed, copper-alloy dagger, 127mm in length, 31mm in width and 4mm in section (max) with an ogival form and a single midrib running the length of the weapon. There is evidence of a bevel and sharpening at the butt end but most of the edge is eroded. The butt has two clear rivet holes both damaged and incomplete but with sufficient to indicate a rivet diameter of 5mm. The tip and butt are both damaged and while much of the original surface survives with a dark brown patina, patches have been lost to corrosion. The dagger is similar in form to a dirk or rapier but its length (…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-1503C2
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Here we have a fragment of a middle Bronze Age copper alloy dirk or sword, circa 1200BC. The blade has a shallow but discernible midrib section, clear 'shoulders' and two rivet holes to the butt end. Given the parallel edges, the simple rivet form and the possible length if this blade, I would err on the side of this being a dirk. The patina is now a very dark black/green due in part perhaps, to some restorative action.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-E816F5
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Bronze Age axe fragment. With slightly flared blade tips, the body expands such that this fragment is probably be from a socketed axe, rather than the gentler expanding/narrower blade section on that of a flat axe or palstave. Therefore we may place this axe fragment as probable late Bronze Age (1200-750BC) The surface is heavily corroded with a now rough dark brown patina. There are no signs of wear/use.
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 6th August 2010
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Record ID: CPAT-79CD04
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is an interesting example of an Iron Age Socketed Axehead in copper alloy from cica 750 – 600 BC. In style, it fits with the characteristics of the Sompting type and the Llyn Fawr Phase. The axe is wedge shaped in both plan and profile view, with an ovoid socket. There is a marked single strengthening collar to the mouth of the socket with the attachment loop being just below that collar, on the side seam of the axe. There are pronounced moulding seams running from the mouth to the blade tips on each side. The blade tips are slightly flared. There is also a slight ‘ch…
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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-357295
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This find is of a particularly good example of a late Bronze Age socketed axe in the tradition of the Llyn Fawr phase (800 - 600BC). The axe has a long, elegant form, with a single mouth moulding, now partly missing, and a well defined loop (external width - 20.69mm, internal - 6.18mm), formed just below the lip. There are no design mouldings to the faces of the axe but they are slightly convex in form. The mouth is near circular and the internal moulding replicates the exterior form, excluding the blade tips, to a depth of 85mm, with no mould lines. The sides of the axe have clear mo…
Created on: Saturday 13th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
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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-401466
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a fragment of an Early Bronze Age flat axe. In this case, the axe has lost most of the lower blade and cutting edge but the shape and overall characteristics, give credibility to the conclusion. The butt is rounded, slightly bent and coincident with the bend, there is a stress fracture across the face around one centimetre from the top edge. A small section of the butt has broken away and missing. The surface is undecorated but there are what appear to be hammer strikes down the edges. The axe width expands from the butt with a very slight concave curve towards …
Created on: Sunday 25th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 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: CPAT-9DFD01
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age flanged axehead. Record made from photograph only, dimensions and weight not recorded. The flanged sides of the axe appear to have been cast and follow the sides as they start to curve into the backs of the blade. The sides diverge gradually before splaying out dramatically into a broad, crescentic blade. A transverse median ridge is visible midway along each side and there is also a slight, curved ridge as the sides widen into the blade. The axehead has a fine brown patina but the tip of one end of the blade is lost. It is also suffering from bronze disease, surfa…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bangor Is-y-coed', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CPAT-B2B473
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze palstave recovered by metal detecting over a field centred on this NGR and 'a wider area'. Artefact not seen by recorder.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-6FCE17
Object type: AXE HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
An axe-hammer of igneous stone found in 1989 holding open the door of a shed in the rear garden of a house at Castle Place, Abergele. The finder Mr Nathan Roberts was undertaking renovation work on the house at the time. A fine example with overall pecking marks visible, blunted at the axe end, signs of damage at the butt end. One of the perforated sides is slightly concave. Shaft hole is towards the butt end, and is splayed at both ends suggesting that it was drilled from both sides (Spencer, J, pers comm, 2004). Thin section extracted and studied by Dr Richard E. Bevins of the Ge…
Created on: Friday 27th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
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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: 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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