Record ID: SOM-8CFFBB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the side and mouth of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe, probably of the Ewart park phase 950-750 BC. The fragment consists of the mouth moulding and adjacent part of one side with very worn breaks around all edges. At one point he edge has bent at 90 degrees to continue onto the front or back face before breaking. At the mouth is a thick triangular cross sectioned mouth moulding then a smaller, shallow D-shaped cross section moulding. Adjacent to this second moulding is a side loop, D-shaped in profile and pointed oval in cross section. Slight casting flashes remain along the s…
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2020
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlezoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4FBE8D
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Middle Bronze Age side looped and socketed spearhead dating to the period c. 1600 - 1150 BC. The blade is leaf-shaped with a lozengiform sectioned midrib. It exhibits a hollow socket and cast side loops. It is complete apart from a small amount of damage to the base of the socket. The spearhead measures 126.9mm in length, 21.6mm maximum width, 9.3mm minimum thick on the blade, 18.3mm in diameter at the base of the socket and weighs 53.54g. The tip of the blade has a slightly break to one side and the edges of the blade are chipped along their length. The sides…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-E755CE
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy possibly Copper Age (Chalcolithic) flat axehead (c.2400 to 2200 BC). The axehead is sub-trapezoid in plan and flattened oval in cross section across the axe and pointed oval on cross section longitudinally. It is extremely worn with the original surface almost completely lost and is likely to have originally been slightly wider and thicker. The evenly rounded ends suggest is probably otherwise almost complete with perhaps some damage at the butt. The parallel sides are relatively straight, expanding towards a convex curved blade that has a wid…
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2020
Last updated: Saturday 14th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-E7E1C3
Object type: BORER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Bronze Age flint awl or borer dating to 3300 to 1000 BC. The piece is made on a tertiary flake with a prominent bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The ripples and aris from previous removals on the dorsal face suggest the flint core was worked in at least two directions. Short semi-abrupt scalar retouch runs around the distal end and the left edge on the dorsal face. This left edge has been shaped by retouch into a distinct projecting slightly blunt ended point for boring holes in wood or hides. The piece is 21.9mm long, 24.1mm wide including the projecting poin…
Created on: Thursday 21st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-555FFE
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper of probable Late Neolithic to Bronze Age date, c. AD 2700-1000. The scraper is worked from a secondary flake of opaque dark grey flint mottled with paler inclusions with a small amount of cortex remaining in the centre of the dorsal face. The flake widens from the proximal to the distal end. A striking platform with a bulb of percussion on the ventral face survives at the proximal end. Negative removal scars from hinged removals from the same platform are present on the dorsal face. The flake is worked unifacially, struck from the ventral face, with relatively long, ab…
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-07454C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint end scraper of probably Bronze Age date, 2200-1000 BC. The scraper is made on a thick secondary flake struck of a previous removal with a large area of cortex, inclusing an indent, remaining down on side. The flint is mottled mid-grey with lighter areas. The percussion waves on the platform and the scars from previous removals on the dorsal face suggest this was struck off a multi-platform core. There is a very large bulb of percussion on the ventral face. There is long, semi-parallel, semi abrupt retouch around the distal end on the dorsal face. There is damage and chipping, po…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitelackington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8C64A0
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold penannular ring dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.1300-800 BC). The ring is in the shape of an oval-sectioned loop and has an oval cross-section with slightly flattened inner and outer faces. One corner adjacent to the terminal is slightly indented but is otherwise plain and undecorated. The gap between the terminals is less than 0.5mm. Dimensions: The penannular ring is 14.5mm by 13.1mm externally. It is 4.2mm wide and 3.2mm thick and the ring weighs 5.32 grams. Discussion: This penannular ring appears similar to a class of artefact which have in…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bagborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE9836
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe head, probably dating to 1100-800 BC and deliberately broken as part of ritual deposition. Only the cutting edge and adjacent section with the end of the socket survive. The cutting edge survives intact and runs in a shallow convex curve 39.7mm long, the blade tips flare outwards slightly but both the tips and blade edge are damaged and chipped. There are some possibly hammering marks on one face from sharpening. The surviving part of the body appears to have had flat faces and convex sides, each side being triangular in cro…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 1st December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlezoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE4024
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age socketed axe head of the Taunton-Hademarschen type. The axe is relatively long and narrow compared to more common forms of socketed axe. the surface is badly corroded with thick concretions in some areas. The mouth of the socket is square, 19.6mm by 19.9mm internally, 27.7mm by 29.3mm externally. Adjacent to the mouth is a prominent moulding, up to 8.2mm wide and raised 1.4mm, reinforcing this socket. The axe then tapers evenly becoming slightly narrower and consistantly thinner towards the widened blade, It is sub-rectangular in cross section with flat flaces and…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 1st December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlezoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AC79FD
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dagger dating from the Early Bronze Age, that is c.2150-c.1600BC. In plan it is broadly triangular with a straight sides tapering to a rounded and now abraded point. It is broadly flat in cross section, with a defined 'edge' which is seperated from the rest of the blade in places by a slight ridge and in other places just by the way it narrows more sharply to the outer edge. There is a shallow central rib on both faces running from the hilt towards the point, it is less visible on one face where it is covered by corrosion products (see below) but seems …
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlezoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E86C93
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2018 T615: declared Treasure, undergoing valuation Description: A complete gold penannular ring dating to the period 1150 to 800 BC. The ring is C-shaped in plan with a gap of 2.4 mm between the flat ends and oval in cross-section. It is decorated with alternating thin stripes of a contrasting bright gold and paler silver metal. The silver has been preferentially attacked in the soil and is slightly pitted. There is some slight damage to the inner sides of the flat ends. Dimensions: The piece measures 18.1 mm in diameter, 7.9mm thick and weighs 10.59 g. Discussion: Go…
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Downton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C8B934
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age tanged and collared chisel of Late Bronze Age date, probably of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking industry, corresponding with Needham's (1996) Periods 6-7, dated to 1150 - 750BC. The chisel is incomplete missing nearly all the tang. The surviving part of the tang is 4.5mm long and of sub-square cross-section ending in a worn break. The tang gradually widens to a defines shoulder/ "collar" moulding of square rectangular cross-section with distincly squared corners and clear steps in and out form the tang and blade. The collar is 7.9mm by 6.9mm by 4.2mm. The blade…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Dundon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A4086B
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A rolled fragment from a gold bracelet dating to the Middle Bronze Age c.1400-1100 cal BC. The bracelet is made from a single rectangular gold sheet whose section is possibly slightly crescent shaped with a convex outer surface and concave inner surface. The long outer edges of the sheet are also slightly expanded. This has been tightly rolled down its length over 450 degrees. One terminal is at the centre of the spiral so that it is not possible to determine if it was broken or represents the original end however it clearly ends with a clean transverse edge. The opposite…
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4D34ED
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2018 T14: declared Treasure, undergoing valuation Description: A complete gold bi-partite penannular ring of Middle to Late Bronze Age date (1300 - 750 BC). The ring is composed of two bands of gold, stacked one on top of the other, and apparently soldered together. Each band is sub-circular (oval) in cross-section and the ring is sub-circular (oval) when viewed in plan. The terminals are flat and do not meet. There is no further decoration. Dimensions: The ring is 16.2mm long, 14.6mm wide and 7.2mm thick. The gap between the terminals is 3.7mm. It weighs 10.73g. Each o…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bagborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8E9827
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T1217: declared Treasure, undergoing valuation Description: Three Late Bronze Age/Earliest Iron Age items found in close proximity, although not in the same hole, while metal detecting on pasture. 1. An Earliest Iron Age socketed axe of the probable 'Sompting' type (Burgess 1971). The interior of the socket has a sub-square shape with rounded corners and measures 23.7x24.9mm internally 38.9 by 36.9mm externally at the aperture where there is a broad and thick rounded collar. The socket of the axe is a flared trumpet shaped that narrows to a raised collar that …
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C304F9
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper-alloy ingot of probable late Bronze Age date, c. 1150 - 600BC. Part of a plano-convex (bun) discoid ingot possibly suggesting the production in a bowl furnace rather than a mould. The upper is flat and the bottom is convex. Only a small section remains with a part of the original edge and very worn irregular breaks on the other sides. The section of the outside edge is too small to idenify the complete diameter. The ingot is pitted likely due to a mix of impurities in its matrix and the uneven natural material used to create the bowl in which it was cast. …
Created on: Monday 27th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-466C3D
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy palstave (axehead) of unlooped type .The palstave is corroded, with some losses at its extremities. The septum is thinner than the blade, 7.5mm thick, indicating that this is a palstave rather than an earlier flanged axe (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 115). The flanges gradually widen (increase in height) from the butt to the stop to a maximum of 26.7mm, creating a triangular shape in profile. The stop is angled forwards slightly at its centre and is thicker than the flanges at the centre. It is 10.6mm bove the septum on one side, 9.2mm on the other. …
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trudoxhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-079C7A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast bronze socketed axe of Late Bronze Age date (1000 - 800 BC). The axe is sub-rectangular in plan with a flared convex cutting edge and the socket is sub-rectangular in cross section. The axe measures 99.6mm length, 45.8mm in width at the blade, 35.8mm at the socket, it is 33.7mm thick and weighs 174.25 grams. The depth of the socket is 65.3mm. The socket of the axe is sub-rectangular with patinated breaks around three sides which have removed the original end of the socket. The remaining complete section has a single swollen moulded collar up to 8.6mm wide. Only the inner stub …
Created on: Monday 6th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-62CE08
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T882; Description: Bead possibly formed from a fragment of a gold band or ribbon dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2200-800 BC). The fragment is a short length of a straight, parallel sided strip with both ends bent back on themselves so the ends meet, probably originally making a cylindrical bead. This has then been squashed flat. The back (interior) is plain and the front is decorated with 20 regularly spaced parallel ribs, and 18 grooves between them, running along the entire length of the fragment. Dimensions: The fragment now measures 9.6mm long, is 13.8mm wi…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Muchelney CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4B2D06
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy palstave (axehead) probably of unlooped type .The palstave is very corroded, with most of the butt lost and some of the blade and little of the original surface remaining. It does however appear to be unusually narrow, especially given its length. The septum is distictly thinner than the blade with parts of a stop ridge surviving on one face. The flanges appear to have been shallow on the butt, widening abruptly at the top ridge but that may be the result of wear and damage. The widest point is just beyond the stop ridge after which the sides th…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winsham CP', grid reference and parish protected.