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Record ID: KENT-BEAA72
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, Mid Bronze Age, cast, copper alloy, probable side-looped palstave. The palstave has deepened flanges which descend from the top to below the waist, a wide ledge in place of the bar-stop. The bar-stop allowed the use of a lateral-headed haft which had a wedge-shaped aperture without fear of splitting. There is a corroded 'bump' on one side that could have been the site of the side loop, the tip of the butt is missing as well as all the blade. The palstave is in very corroded and pitted condition, pale green verdigris patches with a few remnants of dark green surface pati…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
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This findspot is known as 'TANDRIDGE', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: KENT-182263
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early-middle Bronze Age, cast, copper alloy - bronze, axe head or palstave. Broken, small, rounded, rectangular or elongate 'D' shape butt fragment with wedge shaped section tapering to the rounded 'D' shaped end. Green and pale brown coloured, slightly pitted and corroded surface with some spots of arrested bronze disease. This fragment is likely to date to 2500-1050BC. Ref. History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing 1995, page 1-2, Detector Finds 5, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2002, page 54-58 fig. 2 and Bronze Age Metal Work in Norwich Castle …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2011
Last updated: Saturday 14th May 2011
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Record ID: KENT-932534
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable late Bronze Age 1200-900BC Copper alloy, cast, broken, curved rhomboidal shaped, probable implement fragment with wedge shaped cross-section, from sword or axe blade. Attractive green surface patina but some chipping around the edges.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT-8FAE08
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object, age unknown - possible Iron Age/Bronze Age. Crudely cast, broken or damaged, open work, trefoil shaped artefact of uncertain function, consisting of three roughly circular loops of various relative sizes and with attractive dark green patina. Damaged in places - mainly top and bottom where it is possible a further extension may have come from - now broken off. Function unknown but it has similarities to a harness terret.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: KENT4539
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy angular spearhead with solid socket. Socket is damaged, with a large hole on one side.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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