Record ID: LVPL-B9E031
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy pegged leaf-shaped spearhead dating from the late Middle or Late Bronze Age, probably 1100-800BC. The spearhead has a leaf shaped blade that is lozenge shaped in section. The shaft is broken but is circular in section. The socket is packed with a fibrous material. The surviving original surface has a mid brown patina but is pitted and scratched. The tip of the spearhead is missing and the edge of the leaf-shaped blade are damaged Length: 101.49mm; width at widest point: 32.88mm; thickness of blade: 5.36mm; thickness at the mid-rib: 13.85mm; socket diameter…
Created on: Monday 10th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henryd', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GAT-C5BC97
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Looped bronze palstave with some extant damage and in worn condition. The blade is plain and slightly flared. The cutting edge is curved and the blade is a pointed oval shape in cross-section. The u-shaped stop ridge is angular and pronounced. The sides run parallel between the squared butt and the stop ridge. The septum is long in relation to the blade, compared to similar palstaves. The palstave is complete, although the butt has been damaged and the stop ridge has been worn down, particularly on one side. The surface of the palstave is pitted and small air bubbles are v…
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2006
Last updated: Saturday 6th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pen yr Ole Wen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-7621D3
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age copper alloy blade fragment from an uncertain artefact. The implement is incomplete and has broken in antiquity before the blade and has a surviving length of 54.6mm. The piece has been cast in a simple one-piece mould and has undergone no further finishing. At the break the piece has a width of 16.4mm. The sides are curved and diverge sharply to define an expanded blade with a crescentic edge. The implement is flat with a thickness at the break of 4.2mm and 3.2mm at the blade, and weighs 40.1g. Both faces are irregular as would be expected, given that the piece is from …
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-75FE70
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed gouge. The socketed gouge is near-complete and has broken in antiquity at the mouth. The gouge may be judged slender with a maximum external diameter at the mouth of 20.2mm (15.6mm internal). The gouge has an overall length of 86.0mm and weighs 46.0g. The mouth is simple and has no mouldings around it. The gouge has a subtle collar 12mm deep. The sides of the gouge are gently concave and converge towards the blade edge. The casting seams are high and have undergone minimal finishing. The gouge groove begins 31mm from the mouth. The blade edge h…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-75C4F7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe of faceted form and of Type Gillespie (follow Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 191f.). The axe is complete, although the blade edge has been lost and the axe has an overall length of 87.6mm and weighs 129.2g. The mouth is oval with an external width of 35.7mm and an external thickness of 33.2mm (internal - 27.8mm x 24.7mm). The socket has a depth of 74mm and becomes sub-rectangular in section c. 25mm from the mouth. The rim has been carefully finished and no evidence of the casting runner stubs survives. The pronounced flaring, trumpet-shaped mout…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-759FC0
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, probably of Type Guilsfield. The palstave is complete and has an overall length of 141.0mm and is comparatively heavy at 483.7g, implying a heavily-leaded bronze. The butt has a width of 24.7mm and is irregular, appearing to have suffered from casting problems with the bronze at the surface appearing to be porous, there is also some hollowing on both sides of the septum adjacent to the butt. This damage may be a result of insufficient bronze when casting. The butt was likely to have been straight and angled slightly towards the unlooped side. …
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-632296
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age copper alloy palstave, probably of Type Guilsfield. The palstave is complete and has an overall length of 147.6mm and is comparatively heavy at 477.1g, implying a heavily-leaded bronze. The butt is straight (23mm wide) and is angled slightly towards the unlooped side. The septum is thick, as is typical for the type, with a thickness at the butt of 6mm and 14mm at the base of the stop. The septum is slightly concave across its width. The flanges are concave and end well before the butt (18mm). The sides before the stop are straight. The stop is rounded, suggesting th…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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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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