Record ID: HAMP-AC2BA9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy spiral finger ring of Bronze Age to middle Iron Age date with internal diameter of around 21mm. The hoop has a slightly lenticular cross section, 4.2mm thick, with a smoothly rounded interior and a corroded exterior surface. There is no apparent decoration.
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-6F007F
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Middle Bronze Age Transitional palstave axehead of Schmidt and Burgess Type Roundhay, Midribbed Variant (The Axes of Scotland and Northern England, 1981; plate 64 and 65, nos.883-99), and of Penard/Wallington metalworking phase, corresponding with Needham's (1996) Periods 5 -6 and probably dating to 1300 - 1100BC. The incomplete axehead consists of the blade, loop and roughly half the butt end. The blade has incurved long edges and an expanded cutting edge (38.7mm wide and 2.3mm thick), which has suffered some slight damage and has a shallow curve. On both faces is a pro…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-6F4C45
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (1500-100 BC) bronze moustache-like object, incomplete in so far as one of two projections is missing its tip. The object consists of two pointed drop-shaped elements, D-shaped in cross-section and joined at their wider, rounded ends by a short, rectangular central element 5.5mm in length and 8.9mm tall. This section is hollow (as are the very ends of the drop-shaped elements) and has an oval piercing to the underside (10.5xmax.5.2mm), extending into both drop-shaped elements. There are wear marks to either end of this piercing. The underside of…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-983EE4
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1000 BC) rapier or spear, consisting of the very tip of the object only. It measures 23.71x8.22x3.09mm and weighs 1.44g. At the flat, old break the cross-section is diamond-shaped. The surface of the metal has a smooth brown patina with pitting marks. The object is slightly bent in profile and has a prominent mid-rib. Peter Reavill comments "I think I prefer this as a rapier as the central rib shouldn't go to the tip - unless there is an oval in the bottom of the section which would be the tip of the socket" (March 2014 pers.comm.).
Created on: Monday 31st March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-C44DF8
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The probable tip from a Bronze Age cast copper-alloy spearhead. The fragment is triangular in plan and broadly lozengiform in cross-section, with rounded corners. The tip is blunted; the edges bevelled from a slightly rounded mid-rib. The old break is fairly straight. The metal has corroded to a variable grey-green colour with a dark green patina surviving in a few places. Unfortunately with so much of the artefact missing, it is very difficult to tell the phase of the Middle/Late Bronze Age to which it belongs.
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blewbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.