Record ID: SUR-D531EA
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axe dating to the late Bronze Age  (1100 BC - 800 BC), comprising a corner of the socket. The profile of the socket appears subrectangular and is surrounded by a thick rim with a moulded collar 9.6mm thick which has a triangular cross section. A side loop, 19mm in length, is present on the remaining portion of the side of the axehead and there is a visible casting seam running along it, from the rim to the break.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-F27627
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy fragment, probably of a Bronze Age axehead not further defined dating c. 2050-800 cal BC. The fragment is an elongated D shape in plan with a sub-triangular profile and comprises the worn crescentic cutting edge of an axehead. The blade tips don't survive. The transverse break is worn and the object has patches of a glossy dark green patina. Measurements: length: 40.39mm; width: 10.34mm; thickness: 4.55mm and weight:5.26g.   Not enough of the object survives to define further. 
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-EFA181
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, incomplete and extremely corroded cast copper alloy dirk, of early to middle Bronze Age date, probably part of the Arreton to Taunton Metalworking assemblages. The blade is pointed, tapering with concave sides to a point. It has clearly been subject to extensive and repeated re-sharpening over a prolonged period and now retains little of its original form. The rear edge is rounded and incomplete with traces of a pair of flanking and now broken rivet holes. The blade has a flat and lenticular cross section with no clear midrib. Cf. Burgess and Gerloff&rsquo…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-583CD2
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early to middle Bronze Age copper alloy flanged or palstave axehead, comprising a 24mm long section of the butt end. The fragment is wedge shaped in side profile, with the tapering ends of parallel ridges along each side creating a characteristic H shaped cross section at the break, which is patinated and ancient.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-4B8276
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregularly shaped copper alloy ingot (149.96g), of uncertain date, possibly late Bronze Age. 
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-8CF32D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A fragment of cast copper alloy with a sharp angle, bent and broken around all edges and fiercely abraded. A broad date range is commended by an accompanying fragment of a socketed axe-head. Suggested date: Unknown, Late Bronze Age to Post-Medieval, 1000 BC-AD1700 Length: 18mm, Width: 17.7mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 9.02gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: NLM-8CBDE6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axe fragment. Cast corner from the mouth of a socketed axe-head, with a rounded rib passing round the outside of the mouth of the socket; fiercely abraded. What remains indicates a squarish socket in excess of 11.5mm by 21mm. Suggested date: Late Bronze Age, 1000-800 BC Length (along axehead): 20.5mm, Height: 28.8mm, Thickness: 5.4mm, Weight: 18.34gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-C242FC
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy awl 87.2mm in length with a sub rectangular cross section. One end tapers to a point, the other to a rounded chisel tip. The surface has a deep-green patina with considerable loss, but there is no evident decoration.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-18E967
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large portion of the blade and tip of a Middle Bronze Age Rapier fragment probably a Group IV Type dating to the Middle Bronze Age c.1275-1100 cal BC. The haft and lower portion of the blade are missing to an old tranverse break across the blade. The fragment begins at the transverse break where it is 18.9mm wide and 3.0mm thick. From this point it narrows in slightly convex curve, almost straight line,  to a dull point which is also slightly truncated by a small break. The blade edge is chipped frequently along its length. The blade has a sub-oval cross section with …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-DF42F0
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy spear head fragment from the Bronze Age, c.BC 1600-1100. This metal fragment would have been part of a leaf shaped blade, however it has been broken off on three sides. It is sub-rectangular in body while having a rhomboidal cross-section mid-ridge. The only surviving original edge is of the bladed edge.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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