Record ID: BERK-55D456
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 Bronze Age 1550 – 1150 cal BC suggested by the high midrib. Only the tip of the spear remains. The fragment is triangular in plan, tapering to the spear's point. It has a lozenge shaped midrib that is solid 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. Not enough of the spearhead has remained to be able to date this fragment to a more precise range.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: DUR-442348
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of the Beaker-Middle Bronze Age period, 2400 - 1000 BC. This barb and tang arrowhead is missing the tip and one barb, both having broken off.  It is generally triangular, bifacially worked with covering, scaled low angle retouch and deeply worked notches between the tang and barbs.  The tang tapers to a rounded point and is slightly longer than the remaining barb.  The barb tapers to a fine square end, although this might be a broken-off point.  The shape most closely resembles Sutton B types, after Green (1980).  T…
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th November 2022
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Record ID: WAW-1DE91A
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the Middle Bronze Age period (c. 2400-1000BC). The arrowhead has been knapped from a brownish-grey tertiary flint flake. The object is broadly sub-triangular in plan and D-shaped in cross-section. It is broadly symmetrical in shape, with the barbs pointed and the tang oblong and rounded at the base. The left hand barb is chipped whilst the right is still intact. Both the long sides of the arrowhead have been precisely retouched to create sharp edges. The tip of the arrowhead appears to have broken away. On both&nbs…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-4B5776
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Middle Bronze Age copper-alloy unlooped palstave, dating to 1500 - 1300 BC. The blade of the palstave is broadly sub-triangular in plan with relatively straight (but with slightly expanded) sides and a expanding convex cutting edge (fantailed). In profile the blade is sub-triangular with the widest section being before the stop ridge. Directly below the stop ridge on both sides is a concave depression which is divided vertically in the centre by a raised rib. The rear part of the axe, from the stop ridge to the butt, is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in section …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
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Record ID: IOW-3C2682
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Bronze Age socketed gouge, c.950-750 BC. The remaining portion is a short length of the socket with a tapered U-shaped blade. The socket is oval in cross section with low ridges running down each side, visible for the whole length of the object on both sides, which are the remains of casting flashes. The object tapers in width and thickness from its socket to a rounded cutting/gouging edge which is concave on one face. The gouging edge has worn, well rounded chips at its tip. Part of the gouge has broken off from the socket, removing almost a fifth of s…
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-297D6C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery: Four Bronze Age bronze implements were found during a metal-detecting rally. Three have been reported as potential Treasure; the fourth, made by a different finder, should also be submitted for consideration. The three submitted were located at depths between 1 and 4 inches (2.5 – 10 cm) on cultivated land. They were found in an approximate line at intervals of about 25 feet (8 m) – hence 50 feet overall. The alignment was noted to be that of the direction of ploughing. Descriptions: Condition of the palstaves (nos 1 & 2) is good, the socket…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: BM-284683
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small penannular gold ring with decorative narrow banding in yellow and paler gold. The external surfaces are very worn. Visual inspection suggested that the piece consists of a gold covering over a base metal core; this was confirmed by scientific analysis. This is a well known Late Bronze Age type, decorative in character, dating to circa 1150-750 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: WILT-E7EBD1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy spear tip probably dating from the middle or late Bronze Age (1550 BC-800 BC).  The tip is lozengiform in cross section, the blade wings and midrib cutting edges are all in good condition although the very end of the tip is missing.  There is no socket hole.  The blades  and midribs are black and in between these the spear tip is a rich orange colour.  The spear tip measures 24.1 mm in length, the maximum width of the cutting edge is 10.9 mm, the minimum width is 4.3 mm.  It weighs 2.98 grams. No…
Created on: Sunday 1st May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: NLM-7AC682
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axehead retaining fragments of a wooden haft. Cast axehead with a rounded socket mouth, straighter on one side on the inner side of the aperture, with a moulded lip; a second shallower moulding passes round the axehead where it aligns with the springing of a single loop of length 21mm. Mould lines pass from the socket moulding to near a curved cutting edge along the upper and lower sides. The cutting edge is markedly abraded with the loss of all the sharpened edge. Three slivers of wood of length c.60mm, now of angular sections and one with a limited copper-stain…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-EB5D97
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Bronze Age axe, dating to c. 1500 - 800 BC. Axe head type not further defined, possibly a fragment of socketed axehead. The fragment is the blade end of the axehead with a ragged transverse break cutting across its body.  There is no trace of a socket at this broken end. Beyond the break the axe widens in smooth concave curves to the blade edge which is crescent shaped.  Length: 26.6 mm Width: 48.6 mm Thickness: 10.9 mm Weight: 53.6 g Dr Edward Caswell comments: Given the extent of the curve of the blade and the even thickening towards the centre…
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-59DF44
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Plano-convex flint knife, of typical uniface design; the dorsal face is knapped to an asymmetrical leaf shape, unusually in this instance by direct and invasive soft hammer percussion as opposed to pressure flaking, the ventral face is left as struck from the core, the bulb of percussion has a bulbul scar, an indication of being hard hammer struck from the core, most of the platform has been reduced in the process of working the upper (dorsal) face but the point of striking remains extant. Parts of both lateral edges are irregularly “retouched” to an extremely blunt angle and are …
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-F30ECA
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete cast copper alloy developed axehead of Needham’s Class 4E (Type Whittington), dating to the early Bronze Age, probably specifically to the Willerby assemblage (Metalworking Assemblage V), c. 1900 – 1600BC. Needham’s Class 4E (Type Whittington) relates to Type Bandon, as defined by Schmidt & Burgess (1981, p 65)[1] and probably dating to Willerby assemblage (Metalworking Assemblage V), the later part of Needham’s (1996)[2] Period 3, c. 1900 – 1600BC. The axehead is near-complete, missing only the cutting edge of the blade, the blade tips and part of the b…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2022
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Record ID: NLM-C09AE2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy socketed axe head. Cast socketed axe head with a single oval loop of length 20.5mm and width 11.6mm adjacent to the rounded moulding surrounding a socket mouth measuring 25.4mm by 26.5mm; the socket is 65mm deep. A low secondary moulding of width 5mm around the socket mouth appears on the sides and beside the loop, though its definition is lost on that side opposite the loop. An external mould line passes from the socket mouth along the upper and lower sides of the axe head as far as the ends of a crescentic cutting edge to its expanded blade. The sides of the axe are pla…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-60997D
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A copper alloy cast axehead. Probably a Developed Flat Axe from 1950 to 1750 BC. The haft has a transverse terminal which is is sub-rectangular in cross section. From this point it widens in a smooth concave curve to its point of maximum width at its blade tips, 42.71mm. The blade has a crescent edge. In profile the axehead is oval shaped widening to its middle and narrowing to its blade edge. A ridge runs longitudinally along each edge of the two flat wide surfaces of the haft. The axe is encrusted and there is a dent in the blade. Patina green …
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nettleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2DBE3A
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey flint scraper. A triangular section chip from a flint rod, probably a fragment of Neolithic debitage which has acquired a white patina from exposure to a calcareous environment. The patina was subsequently removed by invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect to form a small thumbnail scraper; its flat butt was formed by previous breakage in antiquity. Suggested date: Early Bronze Age, 2350-1600 BC. Length: 19.9mm, Width: 18mm, Thickness: 6.7mm, Weight: 3.11gms
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-4644A3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount or fitting of uncertain function and date, probably of Late Bronze Age or Iron Age date and possibly a scabbard chape. The possible cast mount is complete. The mount is of bulbous bi-lobed form with a curving point projecting from each lobe. At the centre is a shallow rounded groove, widest at the base. Both lobes are decorated with prominent ribbing defined by grooves. The lobes terminate in gently curving points of rounded D-shaped section, slightly flattened on their interiors. The points are not decorated and the interior, near the centre is less finished t…
Created on: Friday 18th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-38D3C7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mottled dark grey thumb scraper of early Bronze Age date c. 2150- 1500 BC. The flint is sub-oval in shape and is a secondary flint with some cortex remaining along the right mesal. The ventral face has a high bulb of percussion with ripples of percussion emanating from it. There is a distinct striking platform at the proximal end. The dorsal face has invasive, scaled, low-angle retouch at the left mesal. Length: 34.1mm, width: 28.5mm, thickness: 7.4mm. Weight: 8.3gm.
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-07CA07
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H. S. (1980) type Green Low with a square tang and drooping barbs longer than the tang, one barb is missing, as is the very tip of the point, both broken ends look glossy and are likely to be ancient, not dull and recent, the damage was probably as a result from being fired or old post-depositional damage. The flint is mottled grey and is unpatinated, the reconstructed length would be around 53 mm, this rather large, but not the largest recorded; the Ballyclare types can reach c. 85 mm in length. Early Bronze Age, 2,350 to 1,500 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-64CC9C
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy tanged chisel of the Late Bronze Age period c.1000-800 BC. The chisel is in good condition and appears undamaged, with evidence for use wear on the blade edge. The chisel has a tapering rectangular-sectioned tang (50.17mm long), which abuts the collared handle stop. The oval collar measures 12.55 mm x 9.65mm. From the collar the chisel blade, which is broadly triangular in plan, flattens in cross-section and flares in width to a thin, crescentic cutting edge 31.08 mm wide. The blade sides are slightly concave. The cutting edge is 27.5 mm wide. The obj…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2022
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Record ID: NLM-CB4F0D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Grey-buff flint with cortex, possibly collected from the East Coast, scraper. A thick oval flake with broad flakes struck by hard hammer from the dorsal side, and with multangular covering scalar retouch across a bulbar ventral surface. Suggested date: Early Bronze Age, 2350-1600 BC. Length: 38.1mm, Width: 41.1mm, Thickness: 15.3mm, Weight: 25.03gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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