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Record ID: KENT17
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A single looped palstave with trident decoration on upper part of blade, vertical striations in hafting groove, excellent patina and hammer marks.
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 1998
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT CANTERBURY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM35
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of the hilt of a bronze sword of Ewart Park type.
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM86
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flint implement, probably a knife. Triangular with low angle, parallel parallel retouch down both long sides of dorsal face. Ventral face plain. Type of flint not described on original record.
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A portion of a spearhead. Surface is very pitted and damaged. Where the spearhead is broken, the diameter of the socket is 8 mm.
Created on: Monday 1st June 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEREFORD AND WORCESTER BISHAMPTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL26
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
Grey/brown flint. Barb length 3mm; tang length 10mm. i.e.. tang projecting beyond the barbs.
Created on: Thursday 4th June 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DERBYSHIRE ALKMONTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL39
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze blade fragment. Appears to be the tip of a Middle Bronze Age rapier. Tapering blade with rounded midrib which is present to the tip of the blade.
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE DAVENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL93
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Early bronze age straight-sided thin-butted flat axe. In v. good condition Note - Peter Reavill - 18/5/21. Thanks are extended to Dr Brendan O'Connor who has suggested that this axe form is now better understood after the recent publication of Stuart Needham 2017: The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe-head from Souther Britain. This axehead appears as Cat No:18 in Needham's above classification and is ascribed to Needham Class 2D Type Halberton dating to the period 1: 2450-2325 BC
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE MALPAS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID45
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Penannular Bracelet. One terminal is missing. The torc is 79mm wide, 64mm deep and 9.4mm diam in the centre. The `seams` are still visible on the terminal and half of the loop. The other portion of the loop has the seam removed and file marks are visible here. The terminal is obliquely truncated conical terminal.
Created on: Monday 6th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WARWICKSHIRE WISHAW', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL104
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
Small bronze tanged chisel. Unusually small and lacking a collar between the blade and the tang. Cutting edge 26mm. Identification confirmed by Stuart Needham at BM. Recorded by Stephen Penney, curator of the salt Museum, Northwich, 30.6.98. Photo deposited with Cheshire SMR
Created on: Thursday 9th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE CHURCH MINSHULL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL106
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late bronze age socketed axe. Two vertical ribs
Created on: Thursday 9th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHROPSHIRE KNOCKIN', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL107
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle bronze age side looped spearhead with leaf-shaped blade.
Created on: Thursday 9th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHROPSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL173
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of bronze palstave (middle section) with stop-ridge and flanges.
Created on: Friday 17th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE ALLOSTOCK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL207
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bolton
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze flat axe. Fragment of blade missing.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREATER MANCHESTER', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL237
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Small bronze narrow-butt flat-axe. Part of butt missing
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE BURWARDSLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL245
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Stone shaft-hole axehead with hourglass perforation. Made from a fine grained stone (greywacke?). Shallow pitting over much of surface; smooth around cutting edge. Some minor surface damage.
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 1998
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE ALLOSTOCK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LVPL239
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Stone shaft-hole axehead with hour-glass perforation. Made from a fine grained grey micaceous sandstone.
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 1998
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE MARSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL261
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
Side loops missing. Peg-hole on one side. Narrow bladed. Damage at tip and end of socket. Widest diameter of socket 16mm. Length of blade 52mm. Widest point of blade 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE BROOMHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL264
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, looped with three parallel ribs on each face (faint on one side), trumpet mouthed. Mouth partly missing - damaged in antiquity. Prominent casting seams on each side face. Width of blade (widest) 44mm. Diameter of mouth circa 35mm. Found with two possible bronze casting droplets each approx. 15mm diameter and 7mm thick (see LVPL-FB33CD).
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 1998
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHESHIRE CUERDLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT310
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
cylindrical ?toggle with expanded terminals, single loop, incised criss-cross decoration
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT SHORNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT368
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
lead single looped palstave, loop broken, plough damage to side of blade, crude style
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT CANTERBURY', grid reference and parish protected.