Record ID: SWYOR-A371FD
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the blade end of a cast, copper alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date, about 1300 BC - 800 BC, type unknown. Only the convex cutting edge survives, with concave sides tapering to a very worn break. The end of the socket is visible across the break. It is triangular in section. The remaining fragment has a smooth, dark green patina. It is 46.1mm long, 18.4mm wide and 6.9mm thick. It weighs 21.59g. It is probably a Northern type of socketed axe.
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-10D9F0
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axe fragment. A simple wedge-shaped hollow cast socketed axe head narrowing from its wider oval mouth or socket to a narrower lunate cutting edge. A single integrally cast loop of length 22mm appears on one side of the socket; its ends or springing appear to have been pinched by a tool like  nosed pliers while the metal remained tectile, conferring a tridactyl appearance. The mouth – of which only a small part of the edge remains – retains a faint trace of a single moulding. The only other feature is an internal casting flange which remains fresh …
Created on: Monday 8th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-2471B5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The cutting edge of a late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead dating to c.950-750 BC. The object is comprised of the cutting edge only, the rest of the object is missing. The fragment is sub-rectangular in shape with a wedged section that tapers to the cutting edge. The edge is crescentic in shape and is worn and abraded. The incomplete side of the object has a worn but straight cut revealing a grooved interior suggestive of a socketed axehead. The is irregular with patches of smooth light green patina.. The fragmentary condition of the axe makes typological identification…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A8B478
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the blade end of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe. The convex cutting edge is complete, but only very short lengths of the concave lateral edges are extant. The fragment terminates in a transverse worn break at about seventeen millimetres from the cutting edge. The fragment expands in thickness from the cutting edge to the break, perhaps marginally convexly. A shallow remnant of the socket survives on the broken edge. The metal is patinated mid green and pale brownish green. Similar to, although smaller than NMS-DA18AB. 10th to 8th century B.C. Length: 18.1mm. Width: 36.8mm.…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: OXON-84347A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy socketed axehead of 'Meldreth' type. dating to the Late Bronze Age c.1150-800 cal BC. The socket of the axehead is sub-hexagonal in section with rounded edges. It has a projecting collar that is 5.6mm thick that flares outwards slightly. Below this the main body of the axe is broadly hexagonal in cross section due to diagonal facets on its front and rear faces. Below the collar the axehead is 28.3mm wide and it then expands over its length in a smooth shallow crescentic curve to 49.0mm wide at the blade wing tips.…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-30E264
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy socketed axehead dating to the late Bronze Age (c.1000-800 BC). The object is sub-rectangular in plan and wedge-shaped. The cutting edge is curved and expands slightly outwards. The edge is worn and abraded and measures 39.28mm in width. At the base of the object is a broadly sub-rectangular shaped mouth with an expanded moulded collar, measuring 39.43mm in length, 33.45mm width and 5.94mm thick. Below the mouth is a moulded collar from which a single raised line of decoration travels down the centre of the surviving side until almost the halfway point.…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-724C80
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Earliest Iron Age bronze socketed axe of Type Sompting, Tower Hill variant, dating to the Llyn Fawr metalworking assemblage (c. 800-600 BC) (O’Connor 2007). This is a virtually complete socketed axe, with a relatively short and slender body. The sides of the axe are moderately concave, leading towards a well expanded blade edge which has a shallow curve. The mouth is sub-rectangular shaped in plan, appearing at its deepest front-to-back. The axe has a double mouth moulding, the uppermost of which is the most prominent and positioned approximately 8.0mm from the mouth socket. Th…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: SF-CB99E3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable Bronze Age socketed axe dating to circa 1600-800 BC. It is broadly triangular in plan with straight edges. A longitudinal ridge runs down one face, which is likely a ridge from the interior of the socket mouth of a Bronze Age axe. Length: 26.3mm; Width: 18.6mm; Thickness: 3.2mm; Weight: 5.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-2326ED
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Bronze Age socketed axe, dating to c. 1500 - 800 BC. Possibly a fragment of socketed axehead. The fragment that remains is the blade end of the axehead with an uneven torn break cutting across its body. Beyond the break the axe widens in smooth concave curves to the blade edge which is crescent shaped. Length: 60.8 mm Width: 48.6 mm Thickness: 10.2 mm Weight: 68.17 g
Created on: Monday 16th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-7AC682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axehead retaining fragments of a wooden haft. Cast axehead with a rounded socket mouth, straighter on one side on the inner side of the aperture, with a moulded lip; a second shallower moulding passes round the axehead where it aligns with the springing of a single loop of length 21mm. Mould lines pass from the socket moulding to near a curved cutting edge along the upper and lower sides. The cutting edge is markedly abraded with the loss of all the sharpened edge. Three slivers of wood of length c.60mm, now of angular sections and one with a limited copper-stain…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA18AB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, the crescentic cutting edge and the very end of the socket. The break is old but there is recent scuffing damage, especially to the cutting edge. Weight 93g. Extant length 31.5mm. Width 62.7mm. Thickness 14.5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D88F73
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, part of the socket and all of the crescentic cutting edge. The two broad faces are distorted at the old break. All of the patination has been lost except for a patch behind both ends of the blade. Weight 80g. Extant length 42.5mm. Width 46mm. Thickness 15.2mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-C09AE2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axe head. Cast socketed axe head with a single oval loop of length 20.5mm and width 11.6mm adjacent to the rounded moulding surrounding a socket mouth measuring 25.4mm by 26.5mm; the socket is 65mm deep. A low secondary moulding of width 5mm around the socket mouth appears on the sides and beside the loop, though its definition is lost on that side opposite the loop. An external mould line passes from the socket mouth along the upper and lower sides of the axe head as far as the ends of a crescentic cutting edge to its expanded blade. The sides of the axe are pla…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-DD256B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete cast copper alloy socketed axehead. The mouth of the socket is square with a thick exterior beaded collar around it. The body of the blade tapers from the mouth towards the blade in one plane, whilst it flares in the other into a curved, crescentic cutting edge. At one side, below the collar, is a large side loop on the longitudinal axis. The loop is D-shaped with an oval aperture. There are clear casting lines along the sides of the axehead. The sides of the body have two longitudinal facets flanking the casting ridges, giving the body an irregular hexagonal exterior prof…
Created on: Friday 25th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: DOR-8875FB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of socketed axehead. The lower blade and cutting edge only remains. The axehead has been broken in an abraded, irregular curve just above the end of the rectangular socket. The cutting edge is curved and only very slighttly flared.The surfaces are very corroded and iron stained. Date: Late Bronze Age - c 1000 - 800 BC Dimensions: 39.81 mm x 45.23 mm x 14.93 mm Weight: 78.84 g A similar fragment is recorded in database record HAMP-888D78 where Rob Webley comments The axehead is most likely to date from the Ewart Park phase (1000-800 BC), a period in which scrap…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: ESS-358524
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed axehead dating to c. 1000-800BC. This fragment represents the lower blade end of the axe. It is sub-square in plan and wedge shaped in profile. When viewed in plan the sides of the body are fairly straight with little expansion. The axe blade shows signs of wear with corrosion and scratch marks visible on all sides. Dimensions: L: 48.9mm, W: 40.4mm, Weight: 66.16g Similar to: ESS-589E20 and ESS-32ED64
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Butley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5EA8F2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy socketed axe head of the south-eastern type (plain A1) of Late Bronze Age date (1000-800 BC). The socketed axe is sub rectangular in shape, with a curved cutting edge. A slight horizontal collar is present on a couple of faces. There is a single loop on one side of the axehead. The loop measures 18.1 mm in length, and 6.6 mm thick. The blade is wide and crescentic with some damage to the cutting edge. The casting seam is visible down both sides externally but is not visible within. Three domed protrusions are visible inside the socket. The mouth of th…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-61EC65
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment of indeterminate type, probably of Wiburton-Wallington, Ewart Park or Llyn Fawr metalworking industries and of Bronze Age date (c.1150-600 BC). The axe is represented by a blade fragment only with surviving dimensions of 27.7mm long,  max 54mm wide and 12.3mm thick and weighs 62.82g. The top of the fragment has traces of the base socket, broken in old damage. The blade faces are flat across the width and gradually convergent with no traces of ribbing surviving. The remaining portion of the surviving side of the blade is flat, creating a su…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1097CC
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, with the lower part of the socket and all of the cutting edge missing below a non-recent break. A casting seam runs the full length of the sides from the almost circular mouth over a double collar to the break (that on one side over the side loop as well). All four corners below the lower collar are chamfered so that the cross-section is octagonal. Each chamfer, running between two ribs, narrows and curves outwards as it descends. At the break there is a strong difference in the thickness of the metal, between 2mm on o…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-1414AC
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy socketed axehead dating to the later Bonze Age (c.1000-700 BC). The fragment is from the socket end of the axehead and presents a slight rib at the mouth for the collar. The body is faceted and presents three facets on this fragment. The surface has a smooth light green patina. The fragmentary condition of the axe makes typological identification indeterminate. Dimensions: Length 39.14mm; width 24.54mm; thickness 3.56mm; weight 10.5g
Created on: Friday 14th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.