Record ID: NMGW-C55A71
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper flat axe, of Type 2C or 2D (following Needham forthcoming) or probably of Type Ballybeg / Roseisle (following Schmidt and Burgess 1981) of Metalworking Assemblage I-II, corresponding with the earlier part of Needham's (1996) Period 2, dated to c. 2,300 - 1,900BC. The axe-head is near-complete and has an overall length of 126.9mm and has a weight of 422.0g. The relatively broad butt appears slightly damaged and is convex with rounded shoulders and has a width of 34.2mm. The sides are straight across the thickness of the axe, giving the axe a rectangular body …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-2CB8E2
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Description of object A Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy socketed hammer (c. 1400 - c. 1150 BC). It has a sub-rectangular mouth with single collar moulding leading to a square section and a slightly curved, smooth and worn terminal with flared edges presumably due to repeated impacts rather than design. It has a brown patina with light green corrosion.
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambledon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-3056F8
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description of object A Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy looped palstave axehead (c. 1400 - c. 1150 BC). It has a narrow square butt, low tapering flanges, slight lip on the stop-ridge with a complete loop adjoining. This leads down to narrow body divided by single midrib finishing with a slightly flared blade. The artefact has a brown patina with light green heavy corrosion and chipping. It can be classified according to Rowland's (1976) scheme as Class 5 Group 1 (ibid. 1976, 34-36).
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambledon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-30D1D6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint borer of probable Bronze Age date. Part of a large assemblage of Mesolithic to Bronze Age flintwork*. The tool is crudely made and irregular in form. It is of sub-triangular section and tapers to a point at the end. The flake removal scars are multi-directional. The flint is mid grey in colour. The artefact measures 95.5mm long, 26.4mm wide and 23.7mm thick. It weighs 44.45g. *See also: BH-D7D6B1, BH-D80626, BH-D85097, BH-2C8256, BH-2DC9D5, BH-2E2601, BH-2E5412, BH-2E7BB6, BH-2EA041, BH-2EB740, BH-2ECED3, BH-2F2323, BH-2F74C0, BH-2FA0C8, BH-2FCA68, BH-2FEC65, BH-301025…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ridge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-41EED3
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy blade possibly from a knife or rapier of middle to late Bronze Age date. The fragment has a dark green pitted patina with patches of active powdery light green corrosive products. It measures 23.75mm in length and 21.17mm in width and has a central longitudinal rib on both faces and a lozenge shaped section.
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swefling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-567545
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age bronze knife-dagger with midrib (Gerloff, 1975, p 168) The dagger is incomplete, missing some of the butt, areas of the blade edge and the tip. The dagger has a surviving length of 67.9mm and has a weight of 8.9g. The butt would have had two rivet-holes for hafting; the better preserved rivet hole has a diameter of 3.0mm. The butt has broken through both rivet-holes and the surviving area of the butt is straight and thin with a thickness of 0.5mm. The dagger has a maximum surviving width of 31.4mm. The midrib is widest at the butt (10mm) and gradually narrows with cur…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SF-59F541
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint retouched flake, of later prehistoric date.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-6F8187
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large carinated body sherd of probable Early to Middle Bronze Age date. The sherd measures 47.6mm in length by 29mm in width and has a body thickness of 10-15mm. It weighs 35.4g. The oxidised exterior surface ranges in colour from orange to buff, the interior surface is buff/brown and the core is a reduced mid to dark grey. The sherd most likely formed part of a larger vessel such as a jar or urn. There is no visible decoration or surface treatment, but the fabric, size and shape of the vessel share similarities with carinated vessels from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. The fabri…
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Mackrell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-816404
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Bronze Age copper alloy awl. The awl is square in section, one end is chisel-shaped and the other end pointed. Dimensions: length 47.33mm; width 4.50mm; thickness 5.22mm; weight 3.79g
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-A967E7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blob of copper alloy created by the cooling of a drop of melted copper, possibly from metal working, probably the remains of an item melted in a fire. There appears to be the remains of some shaping to the top and a ring of golden material (possibly brass) on the bottom. The blob is flat on the bottom, domed on the top and circular; the surface is heavily pitted. It is 13.5mm long, 12.4mm wide, 2.8mm thick and weighs 2.4 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-AB12E2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy plano-convex ingot edge fragment of late Bronze Age date c 1000-800 BC. Measuring 42mm by 21mm by 14.8mm thick.
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-AB2255
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1: A squat flake, patinated on one side with edge retoucjh including small notch, later prehistoric in date. 2: Partly patinated squat oval flake with retouch around distal end, possibly crude scraper, probably later prehistoric in date. 3: Sub-square thick snapped flake in black flint, multi-directional flake removal and crude edge retouch, possibly later Bronze Age or post medieval gunflint. 4: Flake with hinge fracture and some edge retouch, black flint, parallel flake scars on dorsal face, possibly late Bronze Age/ Iron Age or pst medieval gun flint.
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-AC2162
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Two bronze spearhead fragments from Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Description of objects 1. Bronze spearhead. Nearly complete with part of the socket and blade missing. Leaf shaped slender blade with apparently circular socket and rounded central midrib. Light green patina with orange/brown corrosion. L: 121mm; W: 25.5 mm; Th: 12.0mm; Wt: 53.8g 2. Bronze spearhead blade fragment. Mid section of blade broken at either end and partially crushed. Probably leaf shaped blade. Light green patina with dark green and orange/brown corrosion. L: 100.5mm; W: 41.0 mm; Th:…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenilworth CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AF89B5
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The tip of a probable copper alloy rapier or dirk of Middle to Late Bronze Age date. The fragment measures 21.6mm by 11.9mm by 1.8mm and weighs 1.9g. The cross-section is slightly wider in the centre, with sharp edges.
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queen Camel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C03882
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axehead of late Bronze Age date. The axehead measures 89.8mm in length and weighs 274g. Just over half of the socket is missing. On the exterior of the sub-rectangular mouth there are four linear mouldings, the upper most of which is larger and thicker that the other three. There are no other mouldings. The socket has a maximum thickness of 7.5mm and a depth of 60mm. The complete loop starts just below the mouth mouldings. It measures 19.4mm in length and the width of the D-shaped cross section is between 10.5mm and 8.7mm. There is an indistinct…
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford Budville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-D5E546
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Final Early Bronze Age bronze cast-flanged axe (Early Short-flanged axe) of Type Kirtomy (Schmidt & Burgess; 1981, p 82-83) , of Acton Park metalworking and corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 4 dated to 1700 - 1500BC. The axe is complete with an overall length of 136.4mm and has a weight of 380.3g. The butt is slightly convex and has a width of 24.5. The sides are straight and parallel as far as the blade. The axe may be seen as comparatively slender with a width of 27mm. The flanges are of sub-lozenge form and are highest near the start of the blade (45mm from the butt), with a…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-D742F2
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting jet. The jet has a concave oval head with a single sprue extending from the centre beneath. The sprue is rectangular in cross-section. The surface of the jet is very worn and pitted.
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-D73AD4
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age bronze unlooped palstave (Early Palstave Group II) of unusual form and probably of Early Midribbed type and of uncertain subtype, possibly of Type Liswerry (Schmidt & Burgess; 1981, p 125-127). The palstave belongs to the Acton Park metalworking phase of the Middle Bronze Age, corresponding to the earlier part of Needham's (1996) Period 5, dated to 1500 - 1150BC. The palstave is complete and is comparatively short with a length of only 119.3mm and a weight of 301.2g. The butt is slightly concave and has a width of 22.8mm. The sides are straight and parallel as far…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: BERK-D974E4
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead mouth with casting seam and moulded ridges.
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-D983F3
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axe (1500-1150BC). The fragment is H-shaped in section. Dark green patination covers all surfaces indicating the object was broken in antiquity. Dimensions: length 24.13mm; width 20.32mm; thickness 4.75mm; weight 16.93g
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Spatial data recorded.