Record ID: SOM-A4314B
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy tanged chisel, dating to c 1150 - 850 BC. The handle and blade is missing. The chisel was cast in one piece but can be described in two sections. It has a rectangular tang in subsection which abuts the ovoid-sectioned, collared handle stop of the chisel blade. At the other end would have been the chisel blade beyond the tang. At this point there is a worn break. This artefact has a dark orange brown patina. Tanged chisels, which date from c. 1150-850 BC, are known from several hoards and as isolated finds; …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beercrocombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A3A169
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Bronze Age tanged chisel of Late Bronze Age date, probably of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking industry, dated to c. 1150 – 750BC. Only a small section of the tang survives but is clearly square in section. It flares slightly to the collar which is sub oval in form. The blade flares below this collar to give a blade width of 29.02 mm. The blade faces are near-flat and thin gradually towards the edge.  The surface is pitted with a mid-brown patina. On one side an incised line runs parrallel to the angled edge of the blade, c. 3mm from the edge. It…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beercrocombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A0B960
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worked flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Bronze Age date (c.1500-1100 BC). The object is triangular in plan with two notches in the base between the central tang and a barb to either side. One of these barbs is almost completely missing and the other is broken across the end. It is formed from a tertiary flake of translucent grey-brown flint which is bifacially worked with covering, scaled, low angle removals.  Measurements: Length: 21.6mm; Width: 17.8mm; Thickness: 3.1mm; Weight: 0.95g.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-3BF71B
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable copper-alloy tanged chisel, or trunnion tool, likely dating to the Middle Bronze Age (c.1500-1150 cal BC). It has a light green-grey patina. It probably belongs to the metalworking tradition phase VIII - IX, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 5; circa 1500-1150 cal. BC. In profile, you can clearly see where it has been heavily used on one edge. It is sub-rectangular in plan with the trunnions, projecting out 11.5mm and 6.5mm from the sides. However, it is missing its butt end, as there is a post-depositional break just above th…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-29465E
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rod-shaped piece of copper alloy, fragmentary and heavily corroded, with some brownish patination remaining.  Both sides have a central ridge running along the length of the object.  Possibly a fragment from an unknown Bronze Age object.  It is 33mm long, 8mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 3.04g.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-206481
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a socketed chisel or miniature flat axe dating from the Late Bronze Age c. 1150-800 BC. The fragment comprises a flat blade which tapers inwards as the thickness increases forming a broadly trapezoidal fragment. The fragment terminates short of full length with a worn transverse break. The fragment is hollow with the interior containing some organic material. Viewing the object towards the socket presents an elongated oval cross-section. The blade edge is fairly worn but otherwise undamaged. All the surfaces of the f…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ebberston and Yedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-0DCCB2
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and incomplete copper-alloy awl 34.1mm in length with a sub rectangular cross section. One end tapers to a point, which has broken off; the other to a rounded and incomplete chisel tip. The surface has a deep-green patina with considerable loss, but there is no evident decoration.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: WAW-D168A8
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy (bronze) socketed axehead of middle to late Bronze Age date (c. 1300-800 BC). The fragment comprises the blade, above which is a worn and abraded break that reveals a shallow portion of the socket. The fragment is sub-trapezoidal in plan and has a triangular cross section. The blade is an asymmetrical crescent, which is possibly due to wear and abrasion. The angle of the right-hand side of the blade is steeper than that of the left-hand side. The broken edge of the axe runs at an angle inwards from the bottom before rising towards the top end of …
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Sunday 3rd March 2024
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Record ID: SOM-BB574A
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy blade/sword dating from c. 1000 to 800 BC. The blade fragment has a surviving length of 45.9mm, with a surviving width of 35.58mm. It is broadly trapezoid in plan and is lenticular in cross-section. The blade edges are heavily eroded leaving no original surface. Both cutting edges are worn and incomplete and the perpendicular edges to these are broken so that the original length of the blade is unknown as well as the position of this fragment along it, though it is likely between the hilt and the middle of the sword a…
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-BAAD07
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An ovoid scraper, possibly of Bronze Age dat -4000 BC - 1000 BC.  The object is formed from a secondary flake of brown coloured flint. short retouch, scaled, semi abrupt around two sides at the distal end. The bulb of percusion is present.  The object measure 28.6 mm in length, 21 mm in width, 6.9 mm in thickness and weighs 5.2 grams. 
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: DEV-A69052
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy looped socketed hammer dating to the late Bronze Age, c. 1600-800 BC. The hammer is broadly rectangular in plan, but does taper slightly from the socketed end to the tip. In profile the tapering is more evident. In section it is square. The socketed end has a raised but flat collar. The socket is sub-square in shape with rounded internal corners. A fragment of the collar is broken and missing. The tip of the hammer is rounded and assymetrical. There is a D-shaped loop on one side with an oval hole. A casting seam is evident o…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-A3799E
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of a Late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed spearhead. It is lenticular in cross-section, having a central rib which tapers concavely in thickness to the lateral edges. These and the pointed tip are heavily abraded. It terminates in a worn transverse break opposite the pointed end. The very tip of the socket is preserved and visible at the centre of broken end. It is circular, approximately three millimetres in diameter and two millimetres deep. c. 1000 to 700 B.C. Length: 30.5mm.  Width: 13.8mm. Thickness: 6.1mm. Weight: 6.1g  
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-8EE4F6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy knife blade or spear head fragment of unknown date, possibly the Bronze Age, c.BC 1600-1100 through to the Medieval period (c. AD 1600). 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. The object measures 15.99mm in width and 13.33mm in length and is 5.72mm wide. It weighs 2.56 grams. It is dark green in colour and pitted.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 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: NMGW-83CC4B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bridgend
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy blade, possibly of Ewart Park type, dating from c. 1000 to 800 BC. The blade fragment has a surviving length of 64.39mm, with a surviving width of 33.23mm across the top break, and 26.18mm across the lower break. It is broadly trapezoid in plan and is lenticular in cross-section. On one blade face there is evidence of a midrib approximately 12.0mm wide. The blade edges are heavily eroded leaving no original surface. The break surface at the wider end of the fragment is worn with green corrosion, suggestive of the blade being possibly b…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: NLM-7B97D3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Opaque mid grey flint, possibly collected from the East Coast, possible debitage. A thick triangular chunk with a powdery possibly marine-derived deposit on one dorsal face interrupted either by short scalar retouch at its end or by battering at that site. The ventral surface is rounded, possibly bulbar, but with further flaking or impact damage. Suggested date: Bronze Age, 2350-800 Height: 49.6mm, Width: 46.8mm, Thickness: 28.6mm, Weight: 49.35gms
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-790D17
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of 'Trevisker Ware' or Grooved Ware pottery dating from the Neolithic - Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC). The sherd is sub-rectangular in form and has been broken into two pieces. The fabric is gabbroic (clay that weathers over the gabbro stone on the Lizard) with inclusions of pale feldspar, dark augite and mica. The colour of the fabric is a light brown interior to more burnt exterior suggesting it has been fired at a high temperature.  Measurements: length 37.16mm, width 27.36mm, thickness 10.79mm, weight 10.94 grams. It is similar to databas…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: CORN-7900DA
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete hammer stone of prehistoric date (likely Mesolithic to Bronze Age c.8300-800 BC). The object is a sub-rounded shaped pebble of heavily patinated grey coloured stone, probably granitic in nature. There two worked grooves or cups opposite to each other, possibly to assist grip when used. Measurements: diameter 98.22mm, weight 1227 grams. It is similar to database entry CORN-28A5F4.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: CORN-78FCD8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked ground and polished axehead, of a black hue, of probable Bronze Age date. Found with items possibly of the Bronze Age period, but its dating in relation to these finds could not be verified, as it was an historical find, once part of the Zennor Wayside museum's collections, and so, its exact geospatial provenance is unknown. The axehead is rectangular in shape with a ground flat bladed edge. The sides have been ground and polished flat and smooth. It appears a lot of effort has been applied in the production of this tool. The end has been rounded o…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: BUC-3D8164
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Bronze Age copper alloy tanged knife with a spatulate terminal, dating to 1500 - 1150 BC. The blade is a long rectangular shape, the terminal end is rounded and slightly wider. The blade narrows slightly in the centre. At the attachment end there is a notch one side and two the other, creating the tange. After this there is an oval projection to attach. In cross section it is a long lozenge shape, on both sides there is a rounded ridge running down the cenre of the blade. The knife is a red brown colour, with patches of light brown and green. It measures 94.9mm in length, 22.7…
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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