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Record ID: NMGW-857132
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy single-runner casting jet of uncertain date, possibly Middle to Late Bronze Age, c.1500-750BC The jet is irregular and conical-oval in shape, with a length at the top of 34.8mm and a width of 23.3mm. The jet has a weight of 35.0g and an overall depth of 17.4mm. At the base of the jet is a projecting stub or single-runner (19mm x 12mm x 7mm), which would have fed into the mould. The jet has an irregular surface with a dark green patina.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-C51803
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe of Southern English ribbed type, Class B (Type Welby) and of Ewart Park metalworking tradition, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 7, c. 950 - 750BC.
The axe-head is complete, with an overall length of 105.4mm and a weight of 344.0g. The mouth of the axe is sub-rectangular, with internal dimensions of 31.1mm (depth) by 25.9mm (width). The sub-triangular socket has a depth of 75.4mm. No casting stubs are evident on the mouth but there are broken areas above each face, where the casting stubs may have been removed. Below the mouth (6.2mm bene…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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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: NMGW-E834E4
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distal fragment of a knapped and pressure flaked knife likely dating to the Early Bronze age. The flake is made from a distal portion of a cortical flake of semi translucent unpatinated grey flint. The dorsal surface bears patches of cortex and invasive pressure flaking removal scars. The ventral surface blade edges have also been retouched to form the point and even, carefully shaped sides. The knife has a transverse diagonal break at the proximal end. The invasive pressure flaked retouch suggests an early bronze-age date. The cross section of the blade is plano-convex, suggesting …
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-09A1A5
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain and elongate gold strip with near parallel sides. One terminal survives, while the other has been torn around 4-7mm from the end. The surviving terminal is loosely folded over, with an external width of 3.5-5mm. The terminal tapers gradually beyond the fold-over, with a flat but slightly convex shaped end and rounded corners. An offset crease, parallel to the terminal-end is visible 2.2-2.5mm from the edge, the strip terminal also being pinched and thinned beyond the crease. Approximately 4mm from the terminal, a pin-hole approximately 0.8mm in diameter perforates the strip. D…
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-2D2436
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint scraper
The scraper is of ‘thumbnail’ type (with a length of 17.2mm, a width of 21.3mm, a thickness of 5.7mm and a weight of 2.6g). The retouch arcs around all of the edge apart from the straight proximal end. The dorsal surface has a large proportion of cortex. The scraper is made on grey unpatinated flint.
Created on: Friday 29th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-CA3104
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy leaf-shaped blade (length 63mm, width 19mm, thickness 2mm, weight 7.9g). The edges are slightly bevelled and the blade has a very slight but relatively wide midrib. One end of the blade apparently tapers into a tang which is now largely missing. The blade is in poor condition, its tip is bent and its edges are badly damaged and notched. This damage makes it difficult to evaluate whether the apparent tang is a genuine feature or simply a fortuitous break. The blade may possibly be an example of a rare type of Early to Middle Bronze Age knife known as a Class I or …
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 24th March 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-CBE825
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy (probably bronze) socketed axe with a splayed and curved blade. The fragment was apparently broken and distorted in antiquity. Microscopic examination suggests the fragment is encrusted wuth ferrous and manganese oxide corrosion products presumably derived from the burial environment. Original blade width c.51mm, surviving height of fragment 40.5mm, maximum surviving thickness 13.5mm, weight 66.2g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 5th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-743CA6
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy flat axe which thickens towards the middle, with a thin, narrow and originally probably slightly rounded butt and a splayed blade. The edges of both the butt and the blade are damaged, and one face in particular is heavily corroded. Two distinct casting flaws are visible on the relatively uncorroded face of the axe. The sides of the blade more or less evenly curve outwards towards the cutting edge from a point situated slightly over one third of the length of the axe from the butt. The axe is undecorated. Longitudinal stritations visible on the relatively uncorro…
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-DF6846
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This bronze casting jet represents the by-product of the manufacture of a socketed axe. The jet is of a roughly circular form and displays all four runners. The four runners together with its geographic location strongly hint at the jet being removed from an axe of type Storgursey or 'South Wales Type'. The patina on the casting jet varies from a brown to light green and the jet now displays a sheen due to polish or lacquer applied by the finder. The external diameter of the jet is 39.2mm - 45.3mm, with an internal diameter of 16.4mm - 19.3mm. The jet has a maximum thickness of 15…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-EF8FC1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age, Bronze cast-flanged axe whose sides are straight and near parallel, curving outwards markedly near the blade, giving a splayed blade. The artefact has a flat shaped butt end, which tapers in section. Unusually, the butt end of the axe is pierced by a circular hole (6mm in diameter). This was made with care in antiquity, possibly by drilling into the metal with a circular implement from each side of the artefact, the hole breaking through the middle (as suggested by its slightly hourglass shaped profile). The hole is slightly offset from the centre of the butt, and…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-4634E0
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe of uncertain type, possibly of Type Dunnottar and of Metalwork Assemblage III, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 2, c. 2,300 - 2,050 BC. The axe has an overall length of 106.95mm and weighs 176.7g. The butt has suffered some damage, but is narrow and short with a surviving width of 16mm and would have been rounded or possibly even pointed. The sides are straight and diverge gradually to the unexpanded blade. The sides are rounded across their thickness, giving the axe an oval section. The blade has a width of 59.04mm and has a shallow blade edge…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-9E5977
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint knife measuring 53mm length, 18.8mm width, 6.2mm thickness and weighing 6.8g
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-C23722
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Plano-convex flint knife, probably of Early Bronze Age II-III date, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 3 c. 2,000 - 1,700BC. The knife is 51.7mm long and may have suffered some damage to the proximal end. The knife is widest about the mid point with a width of 20.6mm and a maximum thickness of 6.9mm. Both faces have been finely pressure flaked, although, as is typical there is more extensive pressure flaking on the dorsal surface. The knife was made on mid grey flint, which has patinated a pale grey to white. The knife weighs 8.2g. Plano-convex flint knives are often found assoc…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-798C55
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age flint knife fragment measuring 50.7mm in length, 29.5mm in width, 5.8mm thick and weighing 6.9g.
Created on: Friday 15th July 2005
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-4D5AC0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The hoard comprises two associated Bronze Age artefacts:
Plain pegged spearhead fragment
Maximum surviving length 61.3mm; maximum surviving blade width 18.3mm; maximum surviving socket height 13.0mm; maximum blade thickness near break 8.0mm. Weight 22.8g.
This is the lower blade side and upper socket side of a bronze socketed spearhead. The blade edge has a defined bevel approximately 5mm wide. The interior of the blade is slightly hollowed out immediately adjacent to where the central and circular rib cavity once existed. The blade edge merges with the socket with a shallow…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-487432
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze blade, possibly a dirk of Group IV blade with a damaged butt.
The dirk is incomplete with some peripheral damage to the butt (with a length of 124.3mm and a weight of 29.3g). The shoulders are eroded but appear to have been comparatively broad (with a surviving width of 48.2mm) and is better preserved on one side. The original form of the hilt is now uncertain although it may have been of trapezoidal form with differential corrosion to the apex of the butt, which now has convergent sides. There are no definite rivet holes evident but there is a notch at t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-FCCC26
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type, probably of Ewart Park metalworking phase (950 - 750BC) (Needham 1996).
The axe is incomplete, consisting of the blade and the lower faces and sides. The socket mouth, loop and moulding are all missing, leaving the axe with a length of 63.6mm and a weight of 127.38g. At the break, the exterior of the axe is roughly sub hexagonal in section, and is 34.5mm wide and 16.6mm thick, while the socket is sub-rectangular. The sides are moderately straight towards the break but diverge towards the blade end. The casting seams have been roughl…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Rhondda Cynon Taf', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-EEAB28
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age socketed knife of Thorndon Type and of Ewart Park metalworking, corresponding with Needham’s Period 7, dated to c. 950-750BC
The cast knife is near-complete, but in two fragments, broken across the slightly distorted blade (with a distorted length of 134.4mm and a weight of 37.7g). The socket has a sub-oval mouth (21.8mm x 12.7mm external, 17.6mm x 10.0mm and 33.2mm deep) and has gently concave, waisted sides (with a minimum width of 18.6mm). The socket faces are gradually convergent towards the blade and have two perforations to secure handle, the upper perfora…
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-AD1EF5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper alloy object of unknown purpose, dating from the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age (c.1500BC to c.100BC). The object is formed of two projecting drop shaped lobes with a slight central depression between the lobes. The object is incomplete, with all of the original surface missing and one projecting point missing (leaving a length of 31.5mm, 18.65mm height and 10.1mm thickness). There is an interior cavity 14.4mm long, 7.3mm wide and c.5mm deep. The surface is green and black in colour and entirely pitted apart from the cavity. The lobes would likely have …
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Llantilio Crosseny', grid reference and parish protected.
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