Record ID: LANCUM-EA582D
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of a copper alloy axehead. It is triangular in section, being a blunt point on one side, and crescent shaped, but not symmetrical across its break, being more pointed at one end than the other. The blade is not facetted. There is some loss of material from the faces. Along the broken face there is a suggestion that it might have been hollow and therefore a section of socketed axehead, but this is not definitive. Dimensions: It is 67mm long, 21mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weigh 56.83g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3F1C46
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbed and tanged arrowhead, formed by knapping. It is made of a pale semi- transluscent flint with some inclusions. It is slightly flatter on one side then the other, and the tip of one of the barbs is missing. Having been found near a beach it has been worn so no sharp edge remains, but the shape is consistent. Arrowheads such as these, see also NMGW-24C12C, are classified as Sutton Type B (Green 1980) are commonly associated with the emergence of the Beaker phenomenon in Britain. Dimensions: It is 21mm long and 16mm wide, it weighs 1.53g
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-17546A
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy flanged axe head. The two sides diverge slightly towards the head, which splays out from the body forming a crescent shaped blade which angles at approximately 30 degrees from the body, the blade tips slightly short of being at right angles. Part of the blade is missing in one corner. The base is also rounded, although a portion of one side is also absent. The side profile is of a shallow lenticular shape. It is symmetrical. The base and blade are both pointed. There are slight raised flanges on both sides, upper and lower. The axe has a green coloured surface …
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sedburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-165058
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy penannular ring or ring core of probable Bronze Age date (c. 1300-800BC). The ring is made from a circular sectioned loop with a moulded in feature around the outside circumferemce. It is wider in the middle than at the terminals. The material is quite degraded and only half of the ring survives, still, it is apparant that the terminal (the smaller diameter end) was flat. The wider end is more damaged and has been crudely broken. It may be a core onto which gold or silver would have been fixed and the finder comments that traces of gold may be pr…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whaley Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-D27D3E
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A section of what is probably a copper alloy Bronze Age socketed axe head. The blade end survives although the cutting edge is blunt. It is hollow with a wall section of approximately 6mm. The blade is slightly flared towards the haft end. The break on each side is uneven, more material being present on one face than the other. The whole has a green patina with some light lichen growth Dimensions: It is 50mm wide and 42mm long, and 20mm thick. It weighs 79.57g
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Abergele', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9DD279
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age flanged axe head. The blade widens from the base but does not recurve, it has a rib part way along the length, extending about half way. The flanged area is oval, with quite deep flanges. The fixing hook survives.  Dimensions: 155mm long and 48mm wide, it is 28mm thick
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9D8817
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age flat axe head. It is a trapezoidal in shape,widening towards the blade end. The blade is curved. There is no apparent stop feature. The side profile is slightly lenticular, with bevelled edges, which probably assigns this to Needhams Class 2. Further, the gently curved sides may suggest that it is Sub-class 2C. There is little corrosion, the object has an even brown patina Dimensions: 123mm long and 73mm wide, it is 7mm thick
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Torrisholme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-72A74E
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable fragment from a cast copper alloy spearhead.  It is triangular in plan, tapering from a break to the spear's point, which is also missing. It has a circular shaped midrib on one side. It is hollow, and has an even dark green patina. Not enough of the spearhead has remained to be able to date this fragment to a more precise range. Dimensions: It is 83mm long and 24mm wide, and 9mm deep, it weighs 40.62g
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton in Kendal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CBBCA9
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well preserved copper alloy socketed side-looped spearhead. The head of the spear is leaf-shaped with a pronounced midrib. There are two incomplete side loops, situated roughly halfway along the shaft. The shaft is an elongated conical shape.The spearhead has a dark chocolate-brown patina and has some damage to the blade, and the neck of the shaft, whether from use or taphanomic processes is not known. This type of blade is of Davis Type 6, developed side loop, dated to the Acton Park and Taunton phases of the early middle Bronze Age, 1550-1250 BC. Dimensions: 134mm long and 25mm…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hutton Roof', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-C849C8
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy axe head. The two sides diverge slightly towards the head, which splays out from the body forming a crescent shaped blade which covers approximately 160 degrees, the blade tips slightly short of being at right angles. The base is also rounded, although perhaps by wear or taphonomic processes rather than intention. The side profile is of a shallow lenticular shape. It is symmetrical. The base and blade are both pointed. There are slight raised flanges on both sides, upper and lower. There is some damage to the blade with a small section missi…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Edderside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8A2374
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy axe, a shield-pattern palstave similar to the Acton Park phase metalwork. The stop is approximately half way along the flange, and the flange is curved at the bade end. The blade tips recurve. The flange sides are diamond shaped, tere is some damage to the flange sides. It dates to the middle Bronze Age, 1500-1140 BC Dimensions: 130mm long and 40mm wide, it weighs 355g
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B21176
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but degraded flanged copper alloy flat axe head. It is approximately rectangular, widening along its length towards the blade. The blade flares out to the side. In profile the axe is lenticular, wide in the centre. There is a faint suggestion of parallel lines decorating the object in the top half towards the blade. Also faint are traces of low flanges having been present at one time.The face are worn and degraded, and some of the metal is now missing as a result, especially on one side of the blade, which may also be the reason that the flanges are barely discernible. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cantsfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B6171
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze age spearhead in two pieces. The spear is triangular, but slopes downward where it meets the socket. The socket, which is very degraded, is conical in section. The tip of the spear is broken off but still fits the body well, and is certainly from the same spear. The spear head has a central rib which extends down the length to the socket, and either side of this the body is proud of the blade sides and forms a narrow raised triangle, again terminating the the socket. From approximately two centimetres from the tip - and at the point of the break- there are curved lin…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Euxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B5A09
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze age axe or chisel of copper alloy. It is a truncated triangle in shape, widening towards the blade but maintaining a narrow profile. The sides are therefore largely parallel with a small cutting area. There is no stop bezel present. The profile is lenticular. Similar shaped axe/chisels are seen in Needham (2017, 60) and are dated to the early Bronze Age Dimensions: 93mm long and 30mm wide, 4.5mm thick. It weighs 73g`
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Euxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7F4F55
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy palstave like chisel or axe of Middle Bronze Age date. It has a long blade of rectangular section, which tapers to a curved, narrow cutting edge, triangular in section. This expands beyond the blade either side to finish with a short section. The butt end would have been flat but is slightly damaged and therefore curves inwards slightly. The palstave is deep with prominent flanges either side which form a deep, lenticellular shape. The stop ridges are therefore deep too. No casting seem is apparent. The surfaces of the chisel are ve…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-017183
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy blade, probably a razor of the Bronze Age period. It is an elongated leaf shape, possibly too narrow for a razor, but there is no suggestion of any attachment that would signal a spearhead. It is rounded at one end and the other is a sharp point. Both edges have also been sharp at some point. Both sides have a narrow mid rib running along them. It is bent up at each end, and is badly delaminated but otherwise complete, the remaining original surface has an even brown patina. NLM-C12997 has the two mid ribs, and YORYM-B9DF57 is a similar shape. Both of these are…
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-B2E0EE
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cooper alloy terret ring. The rings pass through the large circular piece which is formed of circular section wire. This has two moulded in features on the centre sides, and at the bottom of the ring the two halves flare out slightly and abut each other with a moulded in depression between them. From this, a stem emits downwards, splitting into two halfway down. The two 'legs' are curved outwards, and finish with a blunt, slightly upward pointing foot. This rests on a rectangular platform which extends behind the ring too and would have been used for fixin…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Casterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B1D9E8
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy palstave like chisel of Middle Bronze Age date. It has a long blade of rectangular section, which tapers to a curved, narrow cutting edge, triangular in section. This expands beyond the blade either side to finish with a short section that is perpendicular to the body of the blade. The butt end would have been flat but is slightly damaged and therefore curves inwards slightly. The palstave is deep with prominent flanges either side which form a deep, lenticellular shape. The stop ridges are therefore deep too. Beneath the stop ridge…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Casterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-AFDFDA
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded but complete cast copper-alloy flanged axehead of Early Bronze Age date. This is probably of Needham's Class 5d, dating to the Arreton phase of the early Bronze Age c.1700 to 1400 cal BC.  The sides of the axehead widen gradually in broadly straight lines down the majority of its length before suddenly curving out at the blade end to create a widely expanded blade forms a crescent shaped cutting edge. This edge is slightly asymmetrical perhaps because of use as opposed to miscasting. The undersides of the blade at the tips are &nb…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Casterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7453CB
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete and well preserved copper alloy side-looped spearhead. It has an elongated leaf shaped blade, with a pronounced mid rib. This ends in a conical socket, widening towards the end. In this are the remains of wood. The side loops are lozenge shaped and are flat to the socket. Similar examples (LANCUM-4A2E2C and SWYOR6000EC) are considered to be Davis Type 6B, Acton to Taunton Metalwork Assemblage (ref: Davis 2012, nos. 280-317), and date to the Middle Bronze Age date, about 1550 BC - 1250 BC  Dimensions: 160mm long and 50mm wide approxima…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.