Record ID: OXON-108CF2
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a probable Late Bronze Age spearhead only the tip survives. It is triangular in plan being truncated by a transverse break. It is a lozenge shape in cross section and has a medium brown patina. It is 44.7mm long, 20.3mm wide, 11.2mm thick and weighs 8.30 grams. Too little of the spearhead survives to assign a type to this fragment. The light weight may imply this is also a modern rail fitting.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Souldern CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-01D647
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy ring of unknown date. The ring is circular in plan and a pointed oval in cross section. It is plain and has a dark green patina. The ring has a maximum diameter of 25.2mm, is 3.7mm wide, and 2.0 thick. It weighs 1.85 grams. Plain rings such as these cannot usually be closely dated and served various functions such as harness fittings and dress accessory components.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-AF72D9
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Middle to Late Bronze Age spearhead. Only part of the blade and midrib survive. The fragment is broadly rectangular in plan having three regular linear breaks running at right angles to the surviving blade edge. This edge is rounded and shows no signs of damage. After c.11.3mm the plate splits to from what would have been a hollow probably circular/oval midrib. One of these plates has been slightly squashed against the other. There is possibly a small incised channel running along the edge of the midrib seen on both surfaces. The fragment is a medium green colour. …
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-0A906E
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single piece of copper alloy casting waste of uncertain period. The object is irregular in shape being broadly rectangular in plan and domed in cross section but with one flatter region and one more bulbous area. The surface are smooth suggesting an as cast state. The irregularity of the form of this object would suggest this is not an intentional shape such that it is more likely to be the remains of the casting process. The fragment is a brown green colour It is 369.2mm long, 32mm wide, 9.1mm thick and weighs 23.51 grams.
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 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-8B4BED
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy penannular ring of uncertain date, probably of the Bronze Age (c. 1300-800 BC). The hoop is sub-pentagonal in cross-section with a flat inner surface and bevelled outer panels that meet at a circumferential ridge on the outer surface. The two terminals meet with little space between them. There is no trace of the gold coating that is usually found on Middle to Late Bronze Age penannular rings that are similar in style. Instead, the metal has a pale green-grey patina and is generally worn. The penannular ring measures 15mm in external width and 4.2mm in thickne…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-8A5040
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy flat tanged chisel, or possibly a miniature flat axe most likely dating to the Bronze Age. In plan the chisel is narrowest at its butt end. From this point it is initially straight sided for just over half of its length before widening in a mostly linear line a presumbaly crescent blade edge which flares outwards from the side of the chisel slightly. Most of the blade of this edge is lost to an old diagonal break. The chisel is rectangular in cross section and a pointed oval in cross section. it is 2.3mm thick at its butt…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirtlington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-8EE4F6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy knife blade or spear head fragment of unknown date, possibly the Bronze Age, c.BC 1600-1100 through to the Medieval period (c. AD 1600). 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. The object measures 15.99mm in width and 13.33mm in length and is 5.72mm wide. It weighs 2.56 grams. It is dark green in colour and pitted.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-E8FEEB
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single piece of irregular shaped copper-alloy casting waste of unknown date. The object is approximately sub rectangular in shape and slightly curved in profile with a very mottled surface on all sides. It has a dark green patina with iron staining on one surface. It measures 45.01mm long, 43.33mm wide, is 10.54mm thick and weighs 51.68 grams. The pieces are not distinctive and could be of any date from the Bronze Age onwards although they are evidence for specialist in high temperature metal working.
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: WMID-D589E7
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy ring of a dark brown colour. The darker colouring may be due to waterlogged condition of the soil, and there are areas of wear and chipping where the green colouring of copper alloy are visible. The object is annular with a D-shaped cross section; it has a flat interior and a convex exterior. The centre has two groove. There is one groove at the top and bottom of the ring. The dating of this object is diffuclt to specify, ranging from Bronze Age to Post-Medieval. It is possibly a harness ring, but could have had a number of uses.  Measureme…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-D41C0A
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small fragment from the blade 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 fragment begins at a transverse break where it is 8.5mm wide and 2.7mm 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 has a sub-oval cross section created by a slightly raised oval midridge from which cironline sides extend. The fragment is a light to medium green colour, The fragment is 26.2mm long, 8.5m…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-BD21BF
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded cast copper fragment, possibly from the socket of a late Bronze Age to early Iron Age (c. 800-600 BC) socketed axehead. The fragment in 30.2mm in length and possibly comprises a corner of one lateral side of an object with a hollow interior and a sub rectangular cross section.
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-845F3F
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy spearhead dating from the Middle or Late Bronze Age, about 1550 – 800 cal BC. Only the tip of the spear remains the rest being lost to a transverse break The fragment is triangular in plan, tapering from a break to the spear's point. It has a circular shaped midrib that is hollow and runs to the point of the spear from which the flat blade edges of the spear extend these narrow in width to meeting the point. The fragment has a dark reddish green patina that is chipped away in places.  The fragment is 35mm long, 17…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E692FC
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and hammered copper alloy ingot of unknown date. This consists of a small, smooth piece of copper alloy, which is an elongated oval in plan, and slightly wedge-shaped in profile. It was probably hammered on a flat surface to achieve this form, and bears possible hammer-marks on its flat sides. The piece is 22.86mm long, 10.82mm wide and has a thickness of 3.98mm. It weighs 5.17 grams. The lack of diagnostic features makes this type of object difficult to date, beyond saying it must belong somewhere between the Bronze Age to Early Medieval periods. There are a number …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E4E275
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy awl probably of Later Bronze Age date (c.1500-800 cal BC). The awl is divided into two regions separated from a point at its middle where it is c. 4.05mm wide and 3.85mm thick. One half is circular in cross section narrowing from the object's mid point to a rounded point. The other half is rectangular in cross section narrowing and thinning to a dull rounded chisel edge that is 3.09mm wide and 0.79mm thick. This is rounded but may have originally have have a squared off terminal. The awl has a thick dark brown patina with paler patches - the…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinton Waldrist CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E3E687
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy finger ring. The finger ring is made of a copper alloy strip that is D-shaped in cross section with a convex front and flat reverse. This strip has been folded into a sub-circular hoop with its two squared off terminals crossing over one another only slightly (c.7.1mm). The hoop has an even width and thickness across its length (3.9mm wide 2.3mm wide) and has a dark brown orange glossy patina. The finger ring is 20.2mm in diameter, 7.2mm wide and weighs 3.12 grams. Finger rings made of copper alloy wire twisted into wire may date to many periods. There are f…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-A0B4AB
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half from a complete pegged spearhead broken into two pieces dating to the Late Bronze Age c. 1150-800 cal BC. This records the tip of the spear. This fragment includes the majority of the length of the blade which is now sub-triangular in plan (having convex edges) with a diagonal ragged break separating it from the hafting socket. It is bent slightly downwards in profile possibly deliberately or through plough damage. At the break the spearhead is c.34.9mm wide between the blade edges and c.11.6mm thick at the midrib. It expands in wdith from the break slightly be…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-3A7AE2
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the butt of a Bronze Age (c. -1500 to c. -950) axehead possibly a palstave of flanged axeead. The copper alloy fragment is a sub rectangle with one terminal being broken, but not recently. The opposite edge tapers slightly in width and also tapers to a blunt point in thickness. The long edges on both faces have a slight lip on both faces representing the beginings of flanges. The upper and lower surface of the fragment has an incomplete matte mid green patina. The fragment measures 23.62mm in length, 24.94mm in width and 7.88mm thickness and weighs 18.94g. …
Created on: Saturday 21st October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-69940B
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the blade from a middle to later Bronze Age axehead of uncertain type. The fragment is triangular, 22mm long and has a curved cutting edge with a triangular side profile and a lenticular cross section.
Created on: Friday 29th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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