Record ID: SUR-51E9FA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded sherd of hand-made Bronze Age pottery, probably in the Deverel-Rimbury or possibly post Deverel-Rimbury plainware tradition. The fabric is reduced grey with an oxidised reddish exterior and a calcined flint temper. The sherd has a curve to it suggesting it forms part of the side of a beaker or urn. There is no decoration evident.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E74F19
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two rim sherds, possibly from the same vessel, made from a flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade coarseware of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is a reduced dark grey-black, friable and tempered with abundant coarse and poorly sorted sub angular calcined flint inclusions. The rim is rounded, 18.4mm thick with an original diameter of around 350mm. The sides are undecorated. 
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E72482
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade coarseware carinated bowl of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is a reduced dark grey-black and tempered with abundant fine sand and infrequent sub angular calcined flint inclusions. The rim is slightly everted with a flat upper surface and had an original diameter of around 330mm. The sides are undecorated with a pronounced carination and thin slightly up towards the rim. 
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E7087B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd from a flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade coarseware bowl of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is a reduced dark grey-black and tempered with sub angular calcined flint inclusions. The base is flat with original diameter around 120mm and has a rounded break at the centre which may represent an intentionally drilled hole (c. 15.5mm in diameter). From the base the sides flare outward and are around 9mm thick. There is no decoration. 
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-4226C1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large rim sherd of flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade carinated coarseware bowl, probably of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is dark grey with frequent poorly sorted angular flint inclusions. The rim is decorated with a border of oblique pressed notches and the original rim diameter would have been around 250mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C6EBAE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age to Iron Age ceramic vessel dating to circa 1000 BC-AD 43. The fragment is irregularly shaped, relatively flat and thick. The breaks are uneven. The fabric is hard, coarse and black across the faces and breaks. Dense hard white calcareous and flint tempered annular inclusions <3mm but mainly <0.2mm.  The fragment measures 39.2mm long, 37.1mm wide, 12.3mm thick and weighs 17.68 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C681E4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An everted rim sherd fragment of a Late Bronze Age to Iron Age ceramic vessel dating to circa 1000 BC-AD 43. The fragment is broadly rectangular in shape and tear-drop-shape in cross-section and profile. The breaks are uneven, revealing light grey fabric. The external face is light orange. The fabric is hard and coarse with moderate sub-angular white sand <2.5mm and widespread <0.5mm black sand. The fragment measures 38.4mm long, 22.4mm wide, 12.6mm thick and weighs 10.25 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-759E98
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim and wall sherd from a cast copper-alloy tool or vessel, probably of the Bronze Age (c. 1500-800 BC). The rim is crescentric and flat. Below is a portion of wall with three uneven breaks. There is no decoration on the interior or exterior surfaces. The patina is dark green in colour, including on the break. The fragment is very worn and pitted. The fragment measures 32.5mm long, 14.8mm wide, 2.6mm thick and weighs 7.21 grams.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-358D0A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblade of 10 pieces of dark grey pottery (one in two pieces), some decorated, of uncertain date, Bronze Age to Early Medieval, 2400 BC - AD 700, perhaps most likely to be middle Iron Age (400 - 100 BC). The fabric is hard, irregular in texture, black on the surface and dark grey to reddish brown in the core. It has frequent poorly sorted quartz inclusions. The surface appears to be smoothed or burnished. There are four rim sherds (one in two pieces). One has an upright rounded rim. The others are rounded and slightly everted. Four wall sherds are decorated with scored lines. T…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SF-FD3E8D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A sherd from the body of an early Bronze Age vessel, dating to the period c.2350-c.1200 BC. Hard, coarse fabric containing plentiful poorly sorted quartz pieces (<2mm). The outer surface and core are an oxidised orange-red colour while the inner surface is a lighter grey. The outer surface is decorated with bands of three and two parallel lines of small square indentations. The fragment is too small to provide an indication of the original size and form of the vessel.  With thanks to Carlotta Marchetto, Oxford Archaeology East for identification help.  Length: 30.16mm, w…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-71F7B9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of pottery of possible early to mid Bronze Age date. The body sherd is quite well-fired with a poorly sorted coarse-grained fabric including moderate shell fragments. The fabric is a reduced dark grey/black externally and an oxidised buff internally. The external surface is also partly oxidised. There is no decoration visible on the external side but the internal side has a 10mm wide linear depression, 6mm below top edge of the sherd. Dimensions: 44mm by 37.5mm by 9.5mm. Weight: 18.38g
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-E97221
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of vessel of probable Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age date (c.1000 - c. 600 BC).  Description:  The sherd is a body sherd, sub-rectangular in plan and slightly curved in profile. It is of a handmade grey, soft fabric. It is well fired, and is tempered with angular, poorly sorted, flint inclusions.  Measurements: Length: 27.1mm, Width: 21.5mm, Thickness: 10.3 mm, Weight: 6.17 g
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: NLM-46C71D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Probably handmade reduced fabric with a paler brown external margin of leathery appearance with occasional pale inclusions to length 3mm, possibly dark-stained on its internal surface. Suggested date: Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age, 1000-100BC. Width: 31.8mm, Thickness: 6.8mm, Weight: 7.93gms
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-BF3F72
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A body sherd of a hand-made flint-tempered late Bronze Age to early Iron Age handmade coarseware bowl of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. The fabric is sandy, reduced dark grey-black and tempered with moderately sorted sub angular calcined flint inclusions. The exterior surface has been burnished and has three decorative grooves running around the circumference at one end.
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-0AC023
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Bronze Age pot sherds (2) large flint inclusions 
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-21F21C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
7 sherds, body apart from one possible basal, Rusticated Beaker pottery, reduced, thickness 8-16mm, weight 65g. (in addition, 3 small, rounded pieces of fired silty clay, reduced pale grey, weight 12g, small fragments of animal bone, charcoal)
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-219F78
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 body sherd Beaker pottery with a diagonal grooved lattice, reduced with oxidised exterior, thickness 7mm, weight 4g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-218282
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
44 sherds Early to Middle Bronze Age grog tempered pottery, perhaps biconical urn, all body apart from one rim and three with basal angle, many with internal sooting, predominantly reduced, thickness 9-15.5mm, weight 518g (in addition, many small, rounded pieces of fired silty clay, reduced pale grey, weight 94g).
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: GAT-E7DC44
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub rectangular fragment of copper alloy. There is no decoration present on the find. In profile the find takes the form of an elongated trapezoid shape, which may indicate that this is a fragment from a vessel or bowl.
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanllechid', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-698FB9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of a ceramic vessel of likely Bronze Age to Iron Age date (c. 2500 BC - AD 43). The sherd has a roughly trapezoidal shape, starting at 76.06mm wide and 14.17mm thick near the top and tapering to 47.76mm wide and 10.74mm thick towards the bottom. The fabric is relatively soft, has a rough feel, and is a bit crumbly. The exterior surface is a pale greyish orange colour whilst the interior surface is more of a reddish brown. The core varies between grey to more dark grey or black, and there are abundant, coarse calciferous inclusions, likely of an organic type. There ar…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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