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Record ID: DENO-6BBE82
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
An early Bronze Age flat axehead, probably consistent with metalworking stage II corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 2 (c. 2350 - 2050 BC). The axe has a spatulate shape tapering towards the butt and an expanded blade with a crescentic cutting edge. The rectangular butt is intact, but corroded. The axe is abraded around all edges, but retains a dark glossy patina on upper and lower faces. tapering towards the butt. The object is 58 mm long, the blade is 45 mm wide, the butt end is 24 mm wide. The axehead is 11 mm thick at the butt, tapering …
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-FEF171
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date. Only the socket end of the axe remains, and it has post-depositional damage. It is broadly trapezoidal in shape, and is hollow. At the socket end the rim in thickened. Along one outer edge is the remains of a longitudinal casting seam.There is a similar example recorded on the PAS database (SF-CA59D7). This socket measures 43.02mm in length, 47.15mm in width, 4.77m in thickness, 47.86g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acton', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: DEV-CE73DB
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Two small fragments of a spearhead of possible Middle Bronze Age date. The fragments adhere to one another, although a small area remains missing between the two fragments comprising the cutting edge. A distinct mid-rib runs through the fragments, emphasising their flattened outer flanges which do not show signs of channelling. The cutting edge around the full circumference is worn and damaged. The butt is entirely missing and while the tip fragment appears smooth, there is very likely a further fragment missing comprising the sharp tip for entry to the prey or victim. The fragments to…
Created on: Wednesday 18th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadclyst', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: SF-FAAD5E
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
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A secondary flake with retouching dating to the Bronze Age.It has been manufactured from a fine grained grey flint core with remains of cortex. The ventral face bears concentric ripples and the dorsal face has a longitudinal ridge along the axis; it shows traces of previous knapping. The edges of the flake have traces of sub-parallel abrupt retouches. Length: 33.81mm Width: 26.98mm Weight: 6.51g
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingstone', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: ESS-A0B960
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
An incomplete worked flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Bronze Age date (c.1500-1100 BC). The object is triangular in plan with two notches in the base between the central tang and a barb to either side. One of these barbs is almost completely missing and the other is broken across the end. It is formed from a tertiary flake of translucent grey-brown flint which is bifacially worked with covering, scaled, low angle removals.  Measurements: Length: 21.6mm; Width: 17.8mm; Thickness: 3.1mm; Weight: 0.95g.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C0CDAC
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A piece of copper alloy casting waste, metal working debris or slag of unknown period, Bronze Age to Post-Medieval in date (about 2000 BC - AD 1800). In shape, the waste is an irregularly shaped mass which is also irregular in section. The surface is rough and granular. There are some black inclusions and a brown rounded pellet. The waste has a mid green mottled patina. Measurements; length 43.9mm, width 41.7mm, thickness 11.4mm, weight 47.0g.
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-65A2F7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Late Bronze Age gold pendant: one end of a slightly bent round-sectioned shank has been hammered into a D-sectioned loop, while the other expands into a conical terminal on which another object may have swivelled. Formerly described as probably Roman, it has been reassigned, by Caroline Barton and Ben Roberts of the British Museum, to the Late Bronze Age on the basis of its similarity to a copper alloy example in the Boughton Malherbe (Kent) hoard (PAS KENT-15A293). Length 34mm. Width of loop 5.5mm. Diameter of shank 2 - 1.5mm. Diameter of terminal 3mm. Weight 1.89g. 9th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-D2D067
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Almost complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green. H, S, (1980) type Sutton b, closest in outline to examples i and j (page 122, fig. 45), of off-white patinated flint with the numerous small inclusions within the flint a mid-grey colour, one face has three small spots of rusty iron, probably from contact with agricultural machinery. One barb is nearly complete; possibly the tiny tip is missing, the other barb is chipped at the tip, this is an ancient break as one of the iron stains is on the surface of the break, the tang is broken obliquely but would have been little longer than t…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: KENT-15A293
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A Late Bronze Age carp's tongue complex hoard consisting of 352 objects. At 352 objects and fragments, the Boughton Malherbe hoard is the third largest Bronze Age hoard ever found in Britain behind the Langton Matravers hoard, Dorset, with 777 objects and fragments dating to the Llyn Fawr metalwork phase (c. 800-600 BC) (Roberts et al.: in prep.) and the Isleham hoard, Cambridgeshire, with over 6500 objects and fragments dating to the Wilburton metalwork phase (c. 1150-1000 BC) (Britton 1960; Colquhoun and Burgess 1988: pls. 152.B-157.A; Malim et al.: 2010). The Boughton Malherbe …
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boughton Malherbe', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: GLO-088231
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A copper alloy short flanged palstave axe dating to the late Early to early Middle Bronze Age.  The axe has a wide curved blade that is bevel on both sides of the forward edge. The sides of the blade concave and narrow to the main rectangular body.  This is flanked by large flanges on both sides that project perpendicular to the frame of the axe, each flange is convex in profile running from the butt of the implement for two thirds of its length. Similar examples are illustrated by Schmidt and Burgess (1981: pl 54, nos 730-734) which are termed as short flanged axeheads. T…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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