Record ID: LON-93CAA1
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrow head dating to the period c. 2700 - 1000 BC. The arrowhead is sub triangular in shape, one of the barbs has broken away but both notches are visible. The tang may have been foreshortened by damage. There appears to be low level scaled retouch on both faces. The flint is a light grey colour. Dimensions: length: 19.74mm; width: 16.81mm; thickness: 3.07mm; weight: 0.93g
Created on: Friday 13th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
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Record ID: LON-225912
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy bladed weapon, probably a rapier or dirk dating to the middle Bronze Age, 1500-1300 BC. The remaining fragment consists of part of the hilt and blade. The blade has a lozenge-shaped cross section. The blade flares at the hilt before tapering. Dimensions: length: 81.84mm; width: 29.02mm; thickness: 4.99mm; weight: 36.20g
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: LON-63C1F9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy object probably of Bronze Age date. The remaining part is a section of copper alloy bar or implement, It is an irregular rectangle in plan with breaks on three sides, on the length of the side without the break it thickens along its edge. Dimensions: length: 37.50mm; width: 32.11mm; thickness: 4.07mm; weight: 20.22g
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: LON-8EEC7C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Bronze Age vessel of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. This vessel was hand-made and the fabric is dark grey and includes large, irregular fragments of flint. The vessel is thin-walled, well-finished and with a characteristically internally-bevelled rim. The inner surface appears to have been wiped using a material like cloth or straw. Dimensions: length: 91.98mm; width: 98.36mm; weight: 84.62g Similar vessels on the database are LON-A80624, LON-E1E7C3 and LON-EAB1AE.
Created on: Saturday 25th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2019
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Record ID: LON-3FF5BA
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint tanged arrow head Sutton type b dating to the Middle Bronze Age: c. 2400-1000BC. The arrowhead is triangular in plan and there is a horizontal break at the tip. The arrowhead is bifacial worked. Both the dorsal surface and ventral surface are slightly convex. All edges have low angle retouch. The tang has been snapped off and is missing. The flint is dark grey with light grey inclusions throughout. Dimensions: length: 32.55mm; width: 25.22mm; thickness: 5.14mm; weight: 4.34g Green (1980:122 fig.45) illustrates a similar example. Green (1980:138) writes "Su…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: LON-10A073
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A. complete transverse arrow head Chisel type dating from the Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age: c. 2500-1800BC. The arrowhead is triangular in plan. The dorsal surface is flat and ventral surface is slightly convex. The flint is light grey with two areas of cortex on the tranchet edge. Dimensions: length: 40.83mm; width: 33.33mm; thickness: 3.71mm; weight: 5.11g Green (1980:101 fig.37) illustrates a similar example. Reference: Green, H.S. 1980. The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles. Oxford. BAR British Series 75.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
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Record ID: LON-350A61
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Bronze Age gold-plated copper alloy penannular ring dating from 1150-750 BC. Th ring is oval in cross-section. Both terminals are damaged. Dimensions: diameter: 17.59mm; thickness: 6.82mm; weight: 7.39g Similar gold penannular rings on the database are HAMP-1248F2 and HAMP-0F9AF6. 'The penannular ring belongs to a class of artefact which has been termed 'hair-rings' and 'ring-money' (Taylor 1980; Green 1988; Eogan 1994; 1997; Varndell 2001; Hobbs 2003; Meeks et al 2008; O'Connor et al 2008). Their function remains uncertain, although it is likely that they were p…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-EAB1AE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Bronze Age vessel of the Post-Deverel-Rimbury 'Plainware' group dating prior to 800 BC. This vessel was hand-made and the fabric is dark grey and includes large, irregular fragments of flint. The fragment consists of the rim shoulder and wall of a large storage jar. Dimensions: length: 205mm; width: 165mm; weight: 532g Similar vessels on the database are LON-A80624, LON-E1E7C3 and LON-8EEC7C
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2020
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Record ID: LON-2DB52B
Object type: MATTOCK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Bronze Age red deer (Cervus elaphus) antler Base Axe mattock dating from 3000-1000 BC. The mattock consists of the lower beam and basal junction of a red deer antler. The brow tine and bez tine have both been removed, at the distal end the burr remains. The mattock has a perforation with a diameter 28.33mm mediolaterally through the beam above the bez tine junction where the haft would have been inserted. At the proximal end the working edge is cut 45 degrees and is aligned parallel to that of the orientation of the perforation. AMS radiocarbon dating of similar Base …
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th April 2018
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Record ID: LON-B2755A
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze age copper-alloy bun ingot dating from 1150-800 BC. Possibly associated with a late Bronze Age 'founders hoard'. The remaining ingot represents about a quarter of the total ingot. The ingot is an amorphous piece of set molten copper-alloy with irregular thickness. The ingot retains its bronze colour due to its depositional environment. Dimensions: length: 45.15mm; width: 40.03mm; thickness: 20.8mm; weight: 135.85g Similar bun ingots on the database are SF-C98115 and ESS-939345. Pearce (1983) illustrates four incomplete plano-convex ingots from Moun…
Created on: Friday 27th January 2017
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2017
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Record ID: LON-5C0E89
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating 2150-1500 BC. The arrowhead is roughly triangular in form with curving sides. There are extensive soft-hammer flake removals that cover one surface completely and on the other side there is a large flake removal scar that covers a large portion of the lower surface. The flint is orange/brown and there is no patina. Dimensions: length: 25.87mm; width: 22.51mm; thickness: 3.58mm; weight: 2.07g.
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
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