Record ID: SUR-7B113D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded body or base sherd from a large hand-made ceramic vessel (jar or beaker) of probable prehistoric date. The fabric is pale buff coloured throughout with a mixed temper of coarse sand, flint, iron and grog(?). There is no decoration.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-7AD50F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded body or base sherd from a large hand-made ceramic vessel (jar or beaker) of probable prehistoric date. The fabric is pale buff coloured throughout with abundant poorly sorted angular and sub angular calcined flint temper. There is no decoration.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-D5EA4F
Object type: CORE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint tabular bladelet core of later prehistoric / Bronze Age date struck from a grey flint with white patination / re-cortication from deposition in calcareous sediments. There appears to be a single striking platform, with parallel removal scars around approximately half of the circumference. Some of these are partially patinated and some break the patination, suggesting several phases of use and re-use.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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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-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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Record ID: SUR-DC765F
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age scraper made from a casually re-used primary cortical waste flake of pale brown flint. Both ends on the long axis have patches of short, semi abrupt scaled retouch to define working edges. The dorsal surface is entirely covered by buff coloured cortex; there is no evidence for a prepared striking platform.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-DC262D
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper made from a secondary flake of dark brown flint and of Bronze Age date. The distal end has a rounded projection defined by worked notches to each side which has been refined to a scraping edge with abrupt and semi abrupt sub parallel retouch. There is a pronounced bulb of percussion and striking platform at the proximal end, suggesting hard-hammered removal.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-DBCD2A
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint piercer made from a flake of mottled grey flint, 55.1mm in length and of Bronze Age date. The tool is triangular with a long tip which has been worked into a point using abrupt scaled retouch along both sides. The tip appears to have broken.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-CAC873
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, heavily worn fragment of a cast Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe head or adze, probably of Middle Bronze Age date c. 1350 - 1050 BC. The fragment consists of the end of the blade, above which is a worn and abraded break.  The  fragment sub-oval in plan and in has an elongated pointed sub- rectangular section.  The axe fragment tapers from the broken edge to the blade. 
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-B38E93
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A side scraper struck from a hard-hammer struck tertiary flake of recorticated pale brown flint. One long side has patches of short abrupt retouch to defined a working edge.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-A467C5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint hollow scraper of later Bronze Age date made from a curved secondary struck flake of dark brown flint, 61.8mm in length. The concave long edge has short, semi-abrupt retouch.
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-258D88
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small flint scraper, probably a thumbnail type of Bronze Age date (c. 2400 BC - 1500 BC) struck from a tertiary flake, 32mm in length. The distal end has short abrupt retouch defining a working edge. The surface has a heavy white patination from prolonged deposition in calcareous sediments.
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-55FF9D
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy awl of probable Late Bronze Age date c. 1500-800BC Just over half of the awl is rectangular in cross section, tapering to a blunt, chisel-like point. The other half is circular in cross section, and tapers to a sharp round point on opposing end. The surface has a very dark green/black patina, with considerable pitting. No decoration is evident. Dimensions: length: 59.39mm,  width (at middle) 5.62mm,  weight: 7.43g Plain copper alloy awls are hard to date precisely and found from the Late Bronze Age through to the Medieval period, see:…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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