Record ID: OXON-508051
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard consists of 13 complete Middle Bronze Age palstave axes. This report uses the numbering as found with the objects while packaged. Broadly there are two groups of very similarly formed axeheads and four further axeheads which care categorised separately. Specifically Axes  2, 5, 9 12 , are almost identical in form, while axe 13 is similar lacking only one decorative ridge feature. These are termed group A. Axe 3 is close to but not identical in form to Group A and termed group B. Axeheads 4, 6, 8 and 11 form a second group of similarly formed axeheads are termed group C. …
Created on: Thursday 27th December 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-1822E2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete late Bronze Age socketed axe head. Around 90% of the axe head is present, with damage around the mouth. The axe head has a square socket, with three raised ribs. The internal socket measures 26.1 mm by 23.4 mm. A single collar is present, 9.1 mm beneath the mouth. A loop is present on the side. Dimensions: Length: 82.10 mm Width: 42.7 mm Thickness: 33.0 mm Thickness of wall: 3.1 mm Depth of socket: 64.5 mm Weight: 163.9 g. Discussion: Socketed axeheads with three ribs are either of the Ewart Park type or Yorkshire type, both consistent with Late Br…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-2D6CBC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Description (by F. Basford, D. Boughton & L. Ellis, edited by N. Wilkin) This hoard is formed of socketed axes of near complete and fragmentary nature. There are 11 individual items, with a further two fragments located within two of the axes. 1. Socketed axe of probable Sompting type, Figheldean Down or Cardiff II variant - Other ref: IOW2014-2-311-1) A near complete copper-alloy socketed axe of Sompting type. The axe is sub-circular in plan at the socket with a pronounced rim at the mouth; this is large and 'D' shaped in section. Below the rim springs a side loop; this is …
Created on: Tuesday 1st July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-FE9DB2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age hoard comprisedof one undecorated palstave and four palstaves with triangular decoration below the stop-ridge which date to the Middle Bronze Age (c.1500-1100 cal. BC). They belong Rowland's Class 3 'Birchington Type' Group 1, characterised by their straight sided triangular blade and triangular shaped depression (Rowlands 1976, 32-33). 1) Copper-alloy palstave, consistent with Rowlands (1976) Class 3 'Birchington Type' Group 1. Complete unlooped palstave with no decoration. The butt appears to have been broken and is now diagonally angled. The septum …
Created on: Wednesday 24th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Canterbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-038191
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
In 2012 a Middle Bronze Age hoard was discovered while metal detecting on cultivated land. The find consists of 41 copper alloy objects split across two deposits or concentrations of finds, with a small number of finds found a short distance away. All the objects are of a similar typo-chronology and are likely to represent a single hoard comprised of 31 'ornaments', 8 'tools' and 4 'other' or unidentified objects. The artefacts were recovered by the finders from two deposits in close proximity (c.2-3m apart), with two pits subsequently identified by a local amateur archaeology grou…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Codford', grid reference and parish protected.