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Record ID: NMGW-FEEBD1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
1.0 Discovery & reporting
A Late Bronze Age hoard comprising a bronze socketed axe fragment and a bronze sword blade fragment was discovered on 2nd April 2021 by Peter Griffiths (finder of the axe) and Luke Harris (finder of the sword blade) while metal-detecting on a field under improved pasture in Llanover Community, Monmouthshire. The two artefacts were reported as being found within 60cm (2 feet) of each other, each at depths of 25cm (10 inches). Full details of the findspot (NGR) and the addresses of the finders and the landowner are provided on the Treasure Receipt form for…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Llanover Community', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-FEA9FC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cardiff
Workflow stage: Published
Discovery (CG & AG)
A Late Bronze Age hoard of six fragments, representing four artefacts, was discovered by Dr Peter Anning on 30th October 2020 while metal-detecting in a field under pasture in Pontprennau Community, Cardiff. These included four sword blade fragments (Nos. 1-4, below) and two casting jets (Nos. 5-6, below). The artefacts were all discovered within the same field, scattered over an area of 3.5-4.0 square metres (12 square feet) and found at variable depths of between 8-20cm (3-8 inches). A further copper alloy ‘dumbbell’ shaped artefact (No. 7, bel…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Pontprennau Community', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-FDE8FE
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
1.0 Discovery & reporting (AG)
A Late Bronze Age hoard comprising three bronze socketed axe fragments and a bronze sword blade fragment were discovered on 27th and 28th March 2021 by David Nicklin while metal-detecting in a field under pasture in Llanmaes Community, Vale of Glamorgan. The four artefact fragments were found within the same area of the single field at depths of 20-25cm (8-10 inches) and had been scattered a maximum distance of 38.7 metres from each other. A socketed axe blade fragment (No.2, below) was found 11.3m to the south-west of the sword blade fragment (No. 1…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Llanmaes Community', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-FD9649
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flat axe-chisel or narrow bladed chisel dating from the Early Bronze Age, c. 2200 - 1800 BC.
The body of the object is near-parallel with straight sides which very slightly tapers towards the head. Flanges can be found on each side of the body. The body is lentoid in cross-section for a short portion before it transitions to sub-rectangular. A possible proto stop ridge is visible at the point where the blade expands. The axe splays at the blade which comprises a flat flared crescentic blade that is an elongated hexagon in cross-section. The blade ed…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: DEV-FC36D3
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thumb nail scraper of Early Bronze Age date, c. 2350-1600 BC. The flint is dark grey in colour and mostly opaque. It is a tertiary flake and in plan the scraper is sub-circular. There are pronounced coinchoidal waves of percussion on the ventral surface and a negative hinge fracture at the distal end. On the dorsal surface there is covering, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch.
Measurements: length 18.9 mm; width 19.1 mm; max thickness 5.1 mm. Weight: 2.24 g
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: DEV-FBDBBD
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A thumb nail scraper of Early Bronze Age date, c. 2350-1600 BC. The flint is buff in colour and translucent. It is a secondary flake with a small area of white cortex remaining on one edge. It appears that further cortex was removed along this edge during retouch. In plan the scraper is vaguely rectangular but with one long curved edge (approximately 1/3 of the total edge) at the proximal end. There is a previous flake removal scar on the dorsal surface and a low bulb of percussion on the ventral surface. Along the curved edge there is invasive, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch.
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Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-F9F7F2
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper-alloy awl of probable of Bronze Age date (c.1600-800 cal BC).
Description: The object is rectangular in cross-section at one half, slightly curved and gradually flattening to a flat end. The other half is circular in cross-section and tapers to a point. It has a light green and brown patchy patina.
Measurements: length: 101.2mm; width: and thickness: 5.2mm; weight: 11.19g
Discussion: Awls were a range of rod-like tools that were usually round sectioned and pointed at one end, and rectangular sectioned with a sq…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-F9141C
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold metalworking debris. A small plano-convex pellet of solidified gold melt which has set on a flat smooth surface. A reddish tint suggests a significant presence of copper in the metal mix, making this a rose gold. Suggested date: Unknown, Bronze Age to Modern, 2350BC-AD1950
Length: 9.1mm, Width: 5.6mm, Thickness: 2.9mm, Weight: 0.80gms
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-F6EE06
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint arrowhead. A barbed and tanged type made on a tertiary flake of pale grey-brown flint. It has a glossy patina. A elongated triangular shape with a long central tang and short barbs. The notches forming the barbs are curved and relatively shallow. One face has invasive, scalar pressure flaking along both edges. The other face has some invasive pressure flaking but less regularly applied around a pre-exisiting deeper flake scar. There is slight damage to the tip.
Date: Bronze Age
Dimensions: 29.63 mm x 18.99 mm x 3.84 mm
Weight: 1.88 g
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: SOM-E98DB3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) possible Sutton type dating to the Early Bronze Age c. 2500 - 1500 BC.
The arrowhead appears to have been discarded mid knapping.
The flint is glossy, mid to dark brown, with flake scars on the front surface, while the reverse has ripples and irregular scaring.
Barbed and Tanged arrowheads are associated with the Bronze Age Beaker Period, c. 2500 - 1500 BC and are usually found within Beaker burials.
Measurements:
Length: 30.48mm
Width: 20.52mm
Thickness: 5.38mm
Weight: 2.09g.
See Butler (2005) pg…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: CORN-E825D1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roughout of a Bronze Age flanged axehead. It has a dark bown-black patina (80%), and in parts, a mid blue-patina (20%), and seems to be suffering from Bronze Disease.
It is an object that to its left side looks relatively intact, but to its right side, has noticeable pocking, indicative of where water entered the mould during casting, and so the axehead is misformed.
Despite its clear miscasting, its form is still distinguishable. It is particularly interesting that such a miscast item should survive, considering most miscast metalwork would have been re-melted, and cast again.
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Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-E82001
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible quern fragment, likely from the base. It looks to be made from a pitted greenstone. Due to its findspot context, it is likely to be Iron Age in dating, although secure dating is impossible, given its fragmentary state, but it is likely to be of prehistoric-Iron Age dates.
It still has evidence of a grinding surface, and the curvature around the edge of the grinding surface (where this surface meets the edge of the stone) suggests that when intact, the entire object was circular in shape. Using this curvature to estimate the overall diameter of the grinding surface, it wo…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-E704FA
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy ring, possibly a harness ring, of unknown date.
The object is circular with an circular cross-section. It is undecorated and has a smooth dark brown patina with some patches of pitting. It has an internal diameter of 25.6mm.
Dimensions: Diameter 40.2mm; thickness 8mm; weight 32.44g
Plain rings are difficult to date when found outside of an archaeological context. Plain bronze rings appear in contexts dating from the Bronze Age to post medieval periods.
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
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Record ID: IOW-E66DFE
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible, incomplete Bronze Age cast copper alloy awl, c.1150-800 BC.
This is a possible awl fragment with a sub rectangular cross section. One end tapers to a point, the other ends in an old break. The surface has a deep-green patina with considerable loss, but there is no evident decoration.
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BH-E49DD8
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age c. 1600-800 BC. The arrowhead is broadly triangular, flat and lentoid in cross-section. The piece is broadly symmetrical with a broken tip, two broken barbs and between these a broken tang. The edges of the blade are bevelled with unevenly worn blades. The tip of the blade is broken. The patina across the object is light brown. There are some areas of lamination, these being darker brown in colour.
The arrowhead measures 27.9mm long, 25.4mm wide, 1.8mm thic…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-A79DDC
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age copper-alloy palstave, dating to 1500 - 1300 BC. Only the butt remains. The fragment is rectangular in plan and triangular in section.
The fragment tapers in width from the break to the butt.
Length: 32.5 mm
Width: 24.4 mm
Thickness: 12.5 mm
Weight: 24.22 g
Created on: Friday 19th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9302E5
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy casting jet or casting gate with four projecting runners, from a mould for a late Bronze Age socketed axehead. The upper surface is rough and slanted and the margins are uneven. There are four short spikes / runners projecting from the convex underside; these have lenticular to sub rectangular cross section and are arranged in a rectangle. The surface of the object is coated with thick iron deposits from prolonged exposure to groundwater or river floodwater.
This find is probably associated with the production of socketed axes of South Wales type, which are la…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: SUR-8FA211
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper struck from a primary nodule flake of dark brown flint. The edge has short abrupt and semi abrupt scaled retouch to create a working edge. There is no evidence for a prepared striking platform although one side of the tool has considerable damage from battering, possibly consistent with hard-hammered removal; however the overall form suggests a natural potlid / frost fractured flake which has been casually re-used.
Probably of later prehistoric date, but (given the findspot) potentially earlier.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-81D4C4
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An amorphic piece of copper alloy Slag of Clinker or other similar industrial by-product of uncertain date (800 BC - AD 1800). The object is irregular and bi-convex with bubbles and cavities, and high density. The object is mid-green in colour with a slightly pitted patina.
Length: 58.13mm, Width: 40.57mm, Thickness: 17.59mm, Weight: 89.2g
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7ED05E
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint Arrowhead of Bronze Age date (2500-1200 BC). The object is a barbed and tanged form and is sub-triangular in plan and concavo-convex in section. The object has two semi-circular notches removed by pressure flaking, on the proximal edge. The notches create a sub-rectangular tang, projecting between them. The left-hand barb is missing. The dorsal surface retains a large amount of cortex and has short, scaled flaking along all edges. The ventral surface has short, scaled flaking along all edges.
The flint is dark grey in colour, the cortex is light brown in col…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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