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403,105 | Hoard | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,020 | -800 | Two halves of a Late Bronze Age Copper alloy axe mould (Type Welby). Although both moulds fit together well and their interiors match, the exteriors have different protrusion patterns.
1a. The back-face of a copper alloy axe mould (Type Welby) extensively coated in dried earth (Schmidt & Burgess 1981, 221-3). The vi... | Part of the Rothley Hoard other items can be found at LEIC-A67B11 LEIC-A665D7 and LEIC-4F6B02
The copper alloy axe moulds are for the manufacture of Type Welby socketed axes as defined by Schmidt and Burgess (1981, 221-3) and date to the EwartPark period (1020-800 BC) of the Late Bronze Age (Needham et al. 1997). Th... | 3 | Copper alloy | null | Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure | Metal detector | 2009-05-23T23:00:00Z | null | 2009T278 | null | 524.2 | null | null | 19.7 | 145 | 2 | Ben Roberts | Wendy Scott | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Charnwood | Rothley | SK5713 | From finder | 52.711669 | -1.157717 | LEIC-A6BB51 | null | A6BB51b.JPG | Late Bronze age copper alloy two piece axe mould | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
403,388 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -900 | -700 |
A large part of a socketed axe of late Bronze Age date consisting of the blade and part of the socket - about half the length of the axe survives below a jagged break. The cross section is octagonal with precise corners between the facets. The fragment is in good condition although the blade is pitted and there appear... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2009-12-31T00:00:00Z | null | null | 80 | null | null | null | 66.36 | 1 | David W Williams | David W Williams | South East | Windsor and Maidenhead | Windsor and Maidenhead | Shottesbrooke | SU8575 | From a paper map | 51.467595 | -0.777715 | SUR-D13C85 | null | B10.144.jpg | Bronze Age: Socketed axe | Surrey County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
405,361 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,500 | -800 | Late Bronze Age damaged and incomplete cast copper alloy socketed axehead. Only the lower half of the body and blade end survive. There is a worn break around the socket. It is sub-rectangular in plan increasing in width sharply at the blade end. The cutting edge is slightly curved and worn. It is 55.52mm long, 25.77mm... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-08-14T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 49.5 | null | null | null | 55.52 | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | London | Greater London Authority | Havering | Cranham | TQ5888 | From a paper map | 51.568738 | 0.278345 | ESS-4AEC01 | null | ESS-4AEC01.jpg | ESS-4AEC01 Bronze Age socketed axehead | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
405,511 | Dagger | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,250 | -975 | Cast copper alloy fragment of a dagger, shield-shaped in plan, plano-convex in profile and triangular in section, with a worn central mid-rib, tapering towards the tip of the dagger. The point end of the blade is rounded and the opposite edge broken off so that the rest of the blade and hilt, which would have all been ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 29.55 | null | null | 8 | 45 | 1 | Anna Tyacke | Anna Tyacke | South West | Cornwall | Cornwall | St. Teath | SX0680 | From a paper map | 50.587421 | -4.741979 | CORN-55C363 | null | Aug09finds 003.jpg | dagger fragment (oblique) | Royal Institution of Cornwall | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
406,303 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,000 | -800 | An almost intact cast bronze / copper alloy socketed axe of Late Bronze Age date (1000 - 800 BC).
The axe is almost complete (95%), with only a few chips missing from the edge of the blade. The original edge of the blade is not present so it is hard to determine how the blade extended outwards.
The axe is sub recta... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 332 | 45.65 | null | 7.4 | 105.66 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | West Midlands | Staffordshire | East Staffordshire | Wootton | SK1145 | From finder | 53.002208 | -1.837536 | WAW-F69CD5 | null | WAW-F69CD5_9.jpg | Late Bronze Age: Socketed Axe | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
406,667 | Penannular Ring | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | IRON AGE | null | null | A small gold penannnular ring dating from the Bronze Age and possibly used as ring money, as suggested by other similar artefacts. The ring is roughly circular in section and is very thick - it measures 3.9mm. It is assumed that the ring has a very high gold content. | The finder stated that this object was found in 1985, and therefore would be covered by the Treasure Trove laws and not the 1996 Treasure Act. It was recommended that the finder contact his local FLO for further information. | 4 | Gold | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z | 1985-12-31T00:00:00Z | null | null | 7.1 | null | 13.98 | 3.9 | null | 1 | Anni Byard | Anni Byard | South East | Buckinghamshire | Wycombe | West Wycombe | null | null | null | null | BERK-1FC1E8 | null | FritwellAug2010244.jpg | Bronze Age: Possible ring money or jewellery | Oxfordshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
406,799 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,500 | -800 | Bronze Age copper-alloy tip from a probable spearhead, 41mm long, 11mm wide and 9mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 12.11g. It is triangular, with a distinct bevelled line visible in places on the edge of both faces, although the edges are very worn. It has a lozenge-shaped cross-section and it has a ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 12.11 | null | null | 9 | 41 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Wendy Scott | Eastern | Norfolk | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | Southery | TL6195 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.529079 | 0.371966 | LEIC-34ADD4 | null | 34ADD4.JPG | Bronze Age copper alloy spearhaed | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
406,812 | Sword | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,020 | -800 | Bronze age copper alloy sword fragment, 33mm long, 27mm wide and 4 mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs ?? The object is sub triangular in form and is slighly rhomboid in section. each side tapers inwards slightly and tapers in width to a blade edge. Above this the object has a recessed sub-rectangular ... | null | 4 | Copper | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 4 | 33 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Wendy Scott | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Charnwood | Seagrave | SK6119 | From a paper map | 52.765164 | -1.097404 | LEIC-356106 | null | 356106.JPG | Bronze age copper alloy sword fragment | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
406,990 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | An incomplete cast copper alloy spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date (c. 1500-1150 BC). The spearhead retains only the length of the cone-shaped socket and two side loops, and is missing the entire upper section of the spearhead including the blades. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-04-06T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 22.02 | null | 14.71 | 1.61 | 48.66 | 1 | Ros Tyrrell | Jennifer Moss | South East | Buckinghamshire | Wycombe | Turville | SU7491 | Centred on parish | 51.612976 | -0.932682 | BUC-78CD94 | null | 2DSCN9118.JPG | Bronze age spear | Buckinghamshire County Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
407,162 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | null | null | Cast copper alloy flat or palstave axe dating to the Bronze Age, (2150-800BC). The object is incomplete and is rectangular in cross-section. The blade expands outwards and has a sharp cutting edge which is 1mm thick. Each surface of the object is very pitted and has areas of brown and green patination. The axe measures... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-11T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 71.14 | null | null | 9 | 47.5 | 1 | Colin Knight | Colin Knight | South East | West Sussex | Adur | SHOREHAM BY SEA | TQ2307 | From finder | 50.849452 | -0.254118 | PUBLIC-9BA830 | null | axe.JPG | bronze axe head | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
407,424 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,000 | -800 | Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment, circa 1000-800BC. It is broken across the body with the blade end surviving. The socket end is rectangular in cross section, measuring 21.16mm by 4.65mm. The socket wall is 5.08mm thick. There is some damage to the cutting edge. The axehead is 54.03mm long, 43.76... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | Langham, Essex (Colchester MDC) Rally 19th Sept 2010 | 110.5 | null | null | null | 54.03 | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | Eastern | Norfolk | North Norfolk | Langham | TM0132 | Recorded at a rally | 51.950161 | 0.923434 | ESS-B0F101 | null | 136b.jpg | Bronze Age cast copper alloy socketed axe fragment | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
407,582 | Ring | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | ROMAN | -1,150 | 400 | Copper alloy
Ring fragment. About half of a cast round-section ring, slightly flattened buy hammering on its upper and lower surfaces. One end is broken, the other flat, apparently as made, suggesting this to be a fragment of an originally penannular object. The object is too small and thick to qualify as a mem... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-03T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 2.58 | null | 17.4 | 4.9 | null | 1 | Martin Foreman | Martin Foreman | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NLM-B60904 | null | NLM15255.jpg | Ring from Winteringham | North Lincolnshire Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
407,843 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,000 | -800 | A cast copper-alloy axehead of late Bronze Age date (circa 1000-800 BC). The axhead is complete and suffers minimal damage. Where damage it occurs it is chiefly along the blade, although there are some other scuff marks elswhere. The uneven patina along much of the blade suggests that some of this damage occurred whils... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2010-06-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | 261.5 | null | null | 41 | 109.2 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Staffordshire | South Staffordshire | Penkridge | SJ9314 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.723601 | -2.10508 | WMID-CC5D20 | null | WMID-CC5D20.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
409,201 | Rapier | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,300 | -1,050 |
A fragmentary rapier of Middle Bronze Age date. The object consists of the butt end and the blade which is broken. The attachment end is slightly curved and in each corner is a rivet hole; one of the holes still contains a flat-headed copper-alloy rivet. The attachment end is abraded one of the holes is incomplete. Be... |
This object was recorded at a rally. The description and photograph may not therefore meet the usual standard of recording.
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-16T23:00:00Z | null | null | Grange de Lings, Lincolnshire | 43.2 | null | null | 5.98 | 75.24 | 1 | Adam Daubney | Adam Daubney | East Midlands | Lincolnshire | West Lindsey | Grange De Lings | SK9877 | From a paper map | 53.280928 | -0.531619 | LIN-C85357 | null | GL48.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy rapier | Lincolnshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
409,345 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,300 | -1,000 |
A fragment from a bladed object, possibly a rapier of Middle Bronze Age date. The object consists of the abraded blade tip, that tapers to a rounded point. All of the edges have been abraded and broken to a greater or lesser extent. The break is broadly straight. The edges of the blade are bevelled while a central sec... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-04-24T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 2.3 | 2.2 | null | null | 18.1 | 1 | Rob Webley | Rob Webley | Eastern | Bedford | Bedford | Stagsden | SP9750 | From a paper map | 52.13979 | -0.58405 | HAMP-DC9DA3 | null | HAMP-DC9DA3blade.jpg | Bronze Age blade (rapier, possibly) | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
409,351 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -800 |
A cast copper-alloy awl or tracer of possible Bronze Age date. The artefact has a thin body with square cross-section that tapers to a point at one end. At the other the 'tang' narrows to a rectangular cross-section. Such construction is typical of prehistoric awls which are thought to date from the late Bronze Age. T... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | 2010-09-20T23:00:00Z | null | null | 9.09 | null | null | 5.2 | 72 | 1 | Rob Webley | Rob Webley | South East | Hampshire | East Hampshire | Alton | SU7138 | From a paper map | 51.136879 | -0.986575 | HAMP-DCCD47 | null | HAMP-DCCD47awl.jpg | Bronze Age awl (possibly) | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
409,940 | Palstave | Bronze Age | null | null | -1,500 | -1,150 | Cast copper alloy palstave Axe head typical of forms produced in the Middle bronze Age (1500 -1150 BC).
It has a narrow, square butt, low tapering flanges and a slight lip on the stop-ridge. The body is divided by a single midrib. The crescental blade is flared. The casting seams are clearly visible on the s... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 395.5 | null | null | 26 | 160 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NARC-2DF721 | null | NARC-2DF721 PALSTAVE c.jpg | NARC-2DF721 PALSTAVE | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
410,090 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -950 | A fragment of a copper alloy palstave. The portion which remains is the butt of the palstave. The butt is a sub-trapezoid in plan, with one broken edge which is not too recent a break. The section is a rectangle with slight lips at each corner forming an almost 'I' section. In profile the butt is triangular, thereby ta... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-04-16T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 12.3 | null | null | 7.29 | 21.1 | 1 | Angie Bolton | Angie Bolton | West Midlands | Warwickshire | Stratford-on-Avon | Brailes | SP2940 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.057628 | -1.578452 | WAW-35A062 | null | WAW-35A062.jpg | Bronze Age Palstave. | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
410,389 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | ROMAN | -2,500 | 410 | A fragment of copper alloy spearhead, of possible Bronze Age to Roman date.
The spearhead is leaf shaped with a raised central rib that is circular in section. It is green in colour.
The form best matches spearhead of Bronze Age date (e.g. Moore, C.N., Rowlands, M. (1972) Bronze Age Metalwork in the Salisbury Mus... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 5.6 | null | null | 8.34 | 22.5 | 1 | Emma Morris | Emma Morris | North East | Northumberland | Northumberland | Humshaugh | NY9271 | From a paper map | 55.033456 | -2.126696 | NCL-5A3534 | null | IMG_4284.jpg | Bronze Age Spearhead | Newcastle University | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
410,852 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | Fragment of a cast copper alloy blade of mid to late Bronze Age date. Probably from a dagger similar to NARC-7A1368.
The blade widens slightly at one end suggesting that it was flaring towards the hilt. The wider end is 3mm thick and lentoid in section. The fragment both narrows and gets thinner towards the ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 7.24 | null | null | 3 | 28 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | Eastern | Essex | Epping Forest | null | TL5312 | GPS (from the finder) | 51.785744 | 0.216766 | NARC-84A252 | null | NARC-84A252 BLADE c.jpg | NARC-84A252 BLADE | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
411,202 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,700 | -1,500 | Bronze Age flanged axe, from the Aylesford and Arreton periods, c. 1700-1500 BC.
The handle is slightly narrower at the butt than where it meets the blade (the central point has a width of 31.09mm). The side flanges are low and are at their highest in the central point of the handle. At this central point th... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-31T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | null | null | null | 14.59 | 137.42 | 1 | Frances McIntosh | Frances McIntosh | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Hambleton | Kirklington-cum-Upsland | SE3181 | From a paper map | 54.223788 | -1.526033 | DUR-C4D8C4 | null | DUR-C4D8C4.jpg | DUR-C4D8C4 | Durham County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
411,477 | Flanged Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,275 | Middle Bronze Age 'later short-flanged axe' of Type Ulrome assigned to the c. 1500-1275 BC Taunton Phase (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, 94-8, pls 43-7 nos 539-604).
reference
Schmidt, P.K. and Burgess, C.B., 1981. The Axes of Scotland and Northern England (Prähistorische Bronzefunde 9.7) (Munich). | null | 3 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | Eastern | Hertfordshire | East Hertfordshire | Sawbridgeworth | null | Centred on parish | null | null | ESS-DBE957 | null | ESS-DBE957.jpg | ESS-DBE957 Middle Bronze Age Axe | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
411,495 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,150 | -800 | A cast copper-alloy awl which has a slender body which is circular in section from the mid point to a blunt tip. This portion is slightly swollen in width at the centre. The other half ofthe awl is rectagnular in section and tapers in depth to a blunt point. This half is probably the tang, and the opposite terminal is ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-08-02T23:00:00Z | 2010-09-06T23:00:00Z | null | null | 7.7 | null | null | 6.07 | 54.86 | 1 | Angie Bolton | Angie Bolton | West Midlands | Warwickshire | Warwick | Weston under Wetherley | SP3668 | From a paper map | 52.30894 | -1.473398 | WAW-DEE317 | null | WAW-DEE317.jpg | Bronze Age awl. | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
412,353 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -800 | Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead fragment, 40mm ong, 26mm wide, 10mm thick at the base, 2mm thick at the tip and weighs 8.52g. It consists of a the broken tip of a spearhead with a jagged broken lower surface. It is triangular in form and ovoid in section with a triangular shaped, circular sectioned hollow shaft. This... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 8.52 | null | null | 10 | 40 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Rebecca Czechowicz | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Melton | Melton Warwick | SK7517 | From a paper map | 52.745429 | -0.890415 | LEIC-6B9441 | null | LEIC-6B9441.JPG | Bronze Age copper alloy arrowhead | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
413,677 | Metal Working Debris | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | IRON AGE | -1,000 | -700 | Copper/tin/lead- alloy metal working debris of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age date, i.e1000-700 BC. Dimension: length: 12mm, width: 7mm, thickness: 7mm, weight: 1.04g. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-05-31T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 1.04 | null | null | 7 | 12 | 1 | Maria Therese Falk | Maria Therese Falk | null | Lancashire | Lancaster | Silverdale | SD4575 | From a paper map | 54.167836 | -2.843934 | LANCUM-00C632 | null | LANCUM--006F74.jpg | Copper/tin/lead- alloy metal working debris of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age date, i.e1000-700 BC. | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
413,908 | Flat Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -1,750 |
An incomplete, worn and pitted copper-alloy small Early Bronze Age small flat axehead. In plan, from the rounded butt end the width remains the same until about the centre of the axe when it begins to gently expand to the blade end; the butt end is damaged and broken due to an old break. In section, the axe gradually ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | 2010-09-21T23:00:00Z | null | null | 19.07 | null | null | 4.15 | 52.4 | 1 | Richard Henry | Richard Henry | South East | Hampshire | East Hampshire | Colemore and Priors Dean | SU7228 | From a paper map | 51.046848 | -0.974274 | HAMP-1556C2 | null | HAMP-1556C2axe.JPG | Bronze age flat axe | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
414,932 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,550 | -1,400 | A case bronze palstave axehead of the Middle Bronze Age, c 1550-1400 BC.
The palstave belongs to the Acton group of metalwork, and is a nearly complete specimen. The entire axehead is 154.21mm in length, with a maximum width across the flanges measuring 42.81mm. The blade expands out from the centre of the head. ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-06-30T23:00:00Z | 2010-07-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 22.45 | null | 13.99 | 154.21 | 1 | Robert Collins | Robert Collins | North East | Northumberland | Northumberland | Tritlington and West Chevington | NZ1691 | From finder | 55.212986 | -1.750093 | NCL-A94030 | null | IMG_4844.jpg | Bronze Age palstave axehead | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
415,252 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,100 | A fragment of a cast copper-alloy of probable Middle Bronze Age date.
It is in poor condition, suffering badly from wear, and only the tip survives. The spear is lozenge shaped in section with a pronounced mid rib and flat wings.
The remainder of the spear measures 55.1 mm long, 15.9 mm wide, 10.1 mm thick and we... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-03-31T23:00:00Z | 2010-07-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | 13.9 | null | null | 10.1 | 55.1 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Shropshire | Shropshire | Rudge | SO8196 | From a paper map | 52.561498 | -2.281708 | WMID-C347F4 | null | WMID-C347F4.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy spear fragment | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
415,495 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,300 | -800 | A cast copper-alloy fragment from what was probably a Bronze Age spearhead. The object is hollow and lozenge shaped in section and rectangular in plan. The central area has three facets and a wing on each side. It has a brown to grey patina. It measures 15.95 mm long, 12.0 mm wide, 5.9 mm thick and weighs 2.1 grams. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-03-31T23:00:00Z | 2010-07-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | 2.1 | null | null | 5.9 | 15.95 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Staffordshire | South Staffordshire | Brewood and Coven | SJ8409 | From finder | 52.67846 | -2.238088 | WMID-D65747 | null | WMID-D65747.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy spear fragment | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
416,405 | Bracelet | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,400 | -800 | A complete copper-alloy annular bracelet/arm-ring probably of Bronze Age date. The bracelet, which has an internal diameter of 64.5mm, an external diameter of 81.8mm and a width of 16.6mm has a sub-triangular section with a flat inner side and rounded apex running around the centre of the outer side. The surfaces are h... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-04-17T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 122.3 | null | 81.8 | null | null | 1 | Laura Burnett | Laura Burnett | null | Dorset | null | null | null | null | null | null | SOM-517AF1 | null | SOM-517AF1.jpg | Bronze Age bracelet | Somerset County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
416,686 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,550 | -1,250 | Part of a copper alloy Bronze Age spearhead dating from the Middle Bronze Age, about 1550 BC - 1250 BC. Only the socket survives, so the shape of the blade is unknown. There are side loops half way along the socket which is circular in section. Most of one side of the socket is missing, and one of the loops is broken. ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-05-31T23:00:00Z | 2010-09-09T23:00:00Z | null | null | 33.18 | null | null | 19.7 | 58.4 | 1 | Amy Downes | Amy Downes | East Midlands | Nottinghamshire | Newark and Sherwood | Farnsfield | SK6256 | From a paper map | 53.097611 | -1.075528 | SWYOR-6A0834 | null | PAS_1235_spear.jpg | spear | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
416,898 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | ROMAN | -1,250 | -700 | A cast copper alloy awl or other leather working tool. The awl has a square cross section in the centre, from where the awl tapers to a rounded point at one end and aflattened point at the other - this flattened end was probably the tang and the tool would have been inserted into a wooden or bone handle. The patina on ... |
Part of a larger collection purchased from a car boot sale. The seller informed the purchaser that the finds were from the Vale of The White Horse District, mostly around the Wantage area. Since no other provenance about these finds is known their archaeological value is limited, but we are grateful to the current own... | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z | null | null | 3.9 | null | null | null | 46.58 | 1 | Anni Byard | Anni Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Vale of White Horse | Wantage | null | null | null | null | BERK-A89238 | null | 2010467.jpg | Bronze Age Awl: Awl | Oxfordshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
417,032 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,550 | -1,250 | Part of a bronze age side-looped, socketed spearhead, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, about 1550 - 1250BC. It consists of a tapering, hollow shaft, broken at both ends, two flattened, lozenge-shaped side loops, and two short sections of the blade, most of which is missing. It is probable that the blade was leaf-shap... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Donated to the Scheme for educational use | Metal detector | 2010-09-04T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 56.36 | null | null | 17.7 | 57.9 | 1 | Jack Coulthard | Jack Coulthard | East Midlands | Lincolnshire | West Lindsey | Scotter | SE9100 | From a paper map | 53.488853 | -0.629955 | SWYOR-BA47C3 | null | PAS_1249_spear.jpg | spear | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
417,740 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,800 | -1,500 | A fragment from the body of a Bronze Age cast copper-alloy basal-looped spearhead. The socket is broken just below the base of the blade wings in a diagonal break that appears quite deliberate. The socket extends c. 28.3mm into the fragment. The midrib is more rounded on one side of the blade and has a more obvious rid... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 17.64 | null | null | 13.1 | 41.25 | 1 | Laura Burnett | Rob Webley | South West | Wiltshire | Wiltshire | Pitton and Farley | SU1832 | From finder | 51.087036 | -1.744382 | HAMP-FE1C52 | null | HAMP-FE1C52spearhead.jpg | Middle Bronze Age basal-looped spearhead | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
417,980 | Arrowhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -800 | A copper-alloy fragment of what may be a Bronze Age arrowhead. The object is lozenge shaped in section with two 'wings'. It tapers gradually to a point, although point is somewhat blunt. The arrowhead is solid, although it is clearly broken before the attachment end so it is difficult to determine whether it would orig... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-26T23:00:00Z | 2010-09-27T23:00:00Z | null | null | 7.7 | null | null | 10.3 | 37.99 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Shropshire | Shropshire | Worfield | SO7293 | From finder | 52.534138 | -2.414213 | WMID-3AE711 | null | WMID-3AE711.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy arrowhead fragment | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
417,986 | Arrowhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -800 | A broken copper-alloy socketed arrowhead of Bronze Age date. The arrowhead is lozenge shaped in section although the wings are damaged and are almost completely missing. The tip is also broken and missing. The socketed end, also broken, has an aperture of 7.66 mm. The arrowhead tapers from 11 mm wide at the socketed en... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-08-28T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 15 | null | null | 11 | 52.95 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Birmingham | Birmingham | Sutton Trinity | SP1496 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.561656 | -1.794912 | WMID-3B1420 | null | WMID-3B1420.jpg | Bronze Age copper-alloy arrowhead fragment | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
418,023 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,150 | -800 | A fragment of Late Bronze Age (1150-800 BC) Socketed Axehead, consisting of the cutting edge only and broken just above the start of the socket on one face. It measures 30.45x18.20x(max)7.24mm and weighs 11.46g.
The cutting edge is expanded and worn but apparently undamaged. Both faces are pitted and the shorter look... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Other chance find | 2004-11-29T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 11.46 | null | null | 7.24 | 30.45 | 1 | Katie Hinds | Katie Hinds | South West | Wiltshire | Wiltshire | Avebury | SU1068 | From finder | 51.410936 | -1.857607 | WILT-3C9EB1 | null | Glastonbury1110axe.jpg | Late Bronze Age Socketed axehead | Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
418,217 | Flat Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,300 | -2,000 | An incomplete cast copper flat axe dating from the early Bronze Age, from circa 2300 to 2000 BC. The axe is broken before the butt end and has a crescent shaped chunk missing at the break. It is very worn and suffers from corrosion, with a green copper corrosion product visible on both sides of the surface. The axe fla... | Post recording, Finder got the elemental composition of the flat axehead assessed. The results are: Ag = 0.746% with an error of 0.161 and Cu = 99.25% with an error of 0.97. | 4 | Copper | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-26T23:00:00Z | 2010-09-27T23:00:00Z | null | null | 122.5 | null | null | 8 | 63.2 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Warwickshire | North Warwickshire | Middleton | SP1498 | Generated from computer mapping software | 52.579636 | -1.794828 | WMID-4F82A4 | null | WMID-4F82A4.jpg | Early Bronze Age copper-alloy flat axe | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
418,477 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -800 | Bronze age copper alloy axe tip, 54mm long, 33mm wide and 17mm thick. The object is in poor condition and weighs 91.5grams. The object consists of a very worn axe fragment with rounded blade, 5mm thick, tapering sides and a broken edge revealing a thick rectangular hollow body. The shape suggests it may be from a Palst... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 91.5 | null | 4 | 17 | 54 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Wendy Scott | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Blaby | Narborough | SP5299 | From finder | 52.586327 | -1.233922 | LEIC-63FF16 | null | 63FF16.JPG | Bronze Age copper alloy axe tip | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
418,905 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,500 | -1,700 | Fragment of an early Bronze Age flat axe, c. 2500- 1700 BC in date.
It is the blade and the lower part of the shaft which remains. It is corroded all over the surface and this has caused pitting. The blade edge is uneven with bits missing and worn away. The axe has a rectangular cross-section, narrowing towa... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-08-31T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 102 | null | null | 10.77 | 54.7 | 1 | Frances McIntosh | Frances McIntosh | Yorkshire and the Humber | East Riding of Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | Pocklington | SE8049 | Centred on parish | 53.930955 | -0.783059 | DUR-8DF7F1 | null | a.mclaughlan axe DUR-8DF7F1.jpg | DUR-8DF7F1 | Durham County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
419,691 | Rapier | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,600 | -1,200 | A broken copper alloy Middle Bronze Age rapier tip, dating to c.1200BC. The rapier has a central rib. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | West Hanney 2009 | null | null | null | 2.36 | 37.79 | 1 | Anni Byard | Michael Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Vale of White Horse | East Hanney | SU4192 | From a paper map | 51.625331 | -1.409116 | BERK-E52E57 | null | 746. Middle Bronze age Rapier Tip PTkt.jpg | Middle Bronze Age Rapier Tip | The British Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
420,322 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -800 |
A fragment of cast copper alloy blade of Bronze Age date.
The blade is lentoid in section with one original edge still present. The original form, size and shape of the object is obscured by the current fragmentary and damaged state of the object.
| null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 9.68 | null | null | null | 40 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | East Midlands | Northamptonshire | South Northamptonshire | Stoke Bruerne | SP7447 | Centred on parish | 52.116378 | -0.920703 | NARC-207036 | null | NARC-207036 c.jpg | NARC-207036 | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
420,931 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,100 | A fragment of a basel-side-looped middle Bronze age spear head, dating to 1500-1100 BC. The point of the spear head is missing, but the socket which would have fitted onto the spear is present. The socket is hollow and conical, flaring towards the bottom. Two C-shaped attachment loops sit on either side nearer to the b... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 12 | null | null | 1.62 | 43.19 | 1 | Fran Lalor | Graeme Kettlewell | East Midlands | Lincolnshire | East Lindsey | Horncastle | TF2668 | null | 53.194165 | -0.115441 | NCL-7437E6 | null | IMG_5554.jpg | Bronze Age side-looped spearhead | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
421,182 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,400 | -1,150 | A cast copper-alloy palstave of middle Bronze Age date. The axe is in reasonable condition, although there is damage to the butt, some of which is missing, and other scuff marks on the blade and body of the axe. The palstave is fairly short and chunky with maximum dimensions of 96.86 mm long, 43.39 mm wide, 24.06 mm th... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2010-10-19T23:00:00Z | null | null | 200.5 | null | null | 24.06 | 96.86 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | South East | Oxfordshire | Cherwell | Milton | SP4534 | From finder | 52.002623 | -1.345894 | WMID-883627 | null | WMID-883627.jpg | Bronze Age palstave | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
421,886 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,550 | -800 | A cast, copper alloy fragment of a spearhead dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age, about 1550 - 800BC. The mid-rib of the blade is circular in section, tapering to the point, and continuing to the tip of the blade. The blade on both sides of the mid-rib is damaged, pieces having chipped away. The object has a light ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-10-02T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 11.24 | null | null | 7.6 | 47.8 | 1 | Jack Coulthard | Jack Coulthard | Yorkshire and the Humber | East Riding of Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | Wetwang | SE9059 | From a paper map | 54.019167 | -0.627852 | SWYOR-0A11C3 | null | PAS_1258_spear.jpg | a Bronze Age spear point | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
421,971 | Unidentified Object | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -800 |
A small fragment of a copper alloy unidentified object which may date from the Bronze Age. The fragment is triangular in plan and slightly curved in section. The edges are rounded and worn. One end is thicker than the other. It has a well developed green patina. Though it is not possible to say what object this is par... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-10-02T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 3.9 | null | null | 4.7 | 23.68 | 1 | Amy Downes | Amy Downes | Yorkshire and the Humber | East Riding of Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire | Wetwang | SE9059 | From a paper map | 54.019167 | -0.627852 | SWYOR-206D77 | null | PAS_1263_BA.jpg | Bronze Age unidentified object | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
422,248 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,300 | -700 | Pointed end of a square-sectioned Bronze Age copper alloy awl. The object is 26mm long, 4mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 1.7g. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-19T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 1.7 | null | null | 4 | 26 | 1 | Phil Harding | Phil Harding | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Melton | Kirby Bellars | SK7117 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.745969 | -0.949659 | LEIC-E30F04 | null | CAD2181c.jpg | CAD2181c | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
422,259 | Casting Waste | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,300 | -700 | Irregular copper alloy object, probably a casting sprue. The flared upper surface is slightly concave, beneath this is a tapering extension suggesting passage of the molten metal into the mould. The object is 20mm long, 17mm wide, 20mm thick and weighs 8.9g. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-10-09T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 8.9 | null | null | 20 | 20 | 1 | Phil Harding | Phil Harding | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Melton | Hoby with Rotherby | SK6717 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.746478 | -1.008904 | LEIC-E3FCA7 | null | CAD2194c.jpg | CAD2194c | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
422,710 | Sword | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | null | null | Bronze Age cast copper alloy fragment of a sword, comprised of the tip end of the blade only. The fragment is triangular in plan with a slightly rounded end. It has a shallow lozenge-shaped cross section. It is 38.21mm long, 13.51mm wide and 2.95mm thick at the break. It weighs 5.55 grams. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-01T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 5.55 | null | null | 2.95 | 38.21 | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | Eastern | Essex | Uttlesford | White Roothing | TL5713 | From finder | 51.793621 | 0.275161 | ESS-45CDA7 | null | ESS-45CDA7.jpg | ESS-45CDA7 Bronze Age sword blade fragment | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
422,831 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | A heavily abraded cast bronze un-looped palstave with central rib below the stop ridge and raised flange facets of Middle Bronze Age dating (1500 - 1100 BC).
The palstave measures 148.24mm in length, maximum surviving blade width is 52.95mm, socket width is 27.37mm and it is 23.41mm thick. It weighs 357 gram... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-11-17T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 357 | null | null | 23.41 | 148.24 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | West Midlands | Staffordshire | Lichfield | Thorpe Constantine | SK2508 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.669139 | -1.631745 | WAW-496181 | null | WAW-496181_7.jpg | Middle Bronze Age: Palstave | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
423,415 | Sickle | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -800 | A copper alloy socket from a Bronze Age Sickle. The socket is conical with a rounded end and the mouth is complete with a slightly bevelled edge. There is an irregular hole in one side of the socket. The start of a blade with curved ribs projects to one side and points downwards. The ribs are on both faces and are matc... | null | 3 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-09-25T23:00:00Z | 2010-10-02T23:00:00Z | null | null | 31.44 | null | null | 18.7 | 40.2 | 1 | Peter Reavill | Amy Downes | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Selby | Cawood | SE6037 | From a paper map | 53.825814 | -1.089961 | SWYOR-AEEB45 | null | PAS_1279_ferrule.jpg | Unidentified object | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
424,024 | Sword | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,100 | -700 | A fragment of a Middle Bronze Age sword. Only the tip remains, which judging from the neat linear break across the base, was intentionally cut from the body of the spear in antiquity.
The fragment is triangular in plan with a slightly rounded tip. The body of the fragment is flat, circa 2mm in thickness and ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-03-14T00:00:00Z | null | null | St Mary's Bacton March 2010 | null | null | null | 2 | 34 | 1 | Adam Daubney | Adam Daubney | Eastern | Norfolk | North Norfolk | Bacton | TM0266 | From finder | 52.255072 | 0.958108 | LIN-D80BC8 | null | LIN9991.jpg | Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead | Lincolnshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
425,116 | Gouge | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,150 | -800 | A very worn and corroded, incomplete cast copper-alloy object, probably a gouge of Bronze Age. The artefact is sub-rectangular in shape and a shallow U-shaped in cross-section at one end, becoming circular at the other. One end is open (socketed) and there is a recess extending from this end into the body of the object... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z | null | null | 25.66 | null | null | 14.5 | 54.95 | 1 | Richard Henry | Richard Henry | South East | Hampshire | Hart | Hook | SU7454 | Generated from computer mapping software | 51.280346 | -0.940408 | HAMP-58C596 | null | HAMP-58C596gouge.jpg | Late Bronze Age gouge (probably) | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
425,247 | Casting Waste | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,150 | -800 | Slightly convex fragment of copper alloy cast with two short sprues, sub-circular in section and 14mm long with rounded tips. The sprues splay outwards away from each other. The reverse surface of the convex plate is rough, while the outsdie edge has been air cooled. The plate is 43mm x 30mm and broken on all four side... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 29.25 | 16 | null | null | 43 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | East Midlands | Northamptonshire | Daventry | Creaton | SP6972 | From a paper map | 52.341747 | -0.988619 | NARC-5E5E86 | null | NARC-5E5E86 c.jpg | NARC-5E5E86 | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
426,639 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | IRON AGE | -1,500 | 50 | A corroded and bent cast copper-alloy awl probably of Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age date. The awl is 63.5mm long overall and has a thickened centre 5.9mm dia. and tapers to a point at one end. The opposite end is square in section, shorter (18.45mm long) and tapers from 4.45mm to 2.85mm width. This end probably took a... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-11-27T00:00:00Z | null | null | Weekend Wanderers - Stone (27/11/10) | 5.53 | null | 5.9 | null | 63.5 | 1 | Paul Wragg | Paul Wragg | South East | Buckinghamshire | Aylesbury Vale | Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell | SP7811 | Generated from computer mapping software | 51.792225 | -0.870458 | HAMP-19FD24 | null | HAMP-19FD24awl.jpg | Bronze Age awl (possibly) | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
426,775 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,400 | -1,250 |
A Middle Bronze Age, copper-alloy palstave axehead. No further information recorded.
| null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 20 | 80 | 1 | Danielle Wootton | Danielle Wootton | South West | Devon | South Hams | Stoke Gabriel | SX8657 | From finder | 50.401786 | -3.605443 | DEV-2FE173 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
427,920 | Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,700 | -1,400 | Blade fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of Bronze Age date (1700-1400 BC). Probable Needham class B.
A large steeply curved crescent shaped blade. Broken after the crescentic edges, revealing the horizontal inner groove.
A dark brown patina with several spots of probable bronze dise... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 70.89 | null | null | 13 | 60 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | East Midlands | Northamptonshire | East Northamptonshire | Nassington | TL0596 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.551727 | -0.452833 | NARC-AB2430 | null | NARC-AB2430 c.jpg | bronzeageaxe | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
428,077 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | A copper alloy Bronze Age axe fragment, probably dating to the Middle Bronze Age c. 1500-1150 BC. The fragment is part of the blade of a socketed axe bearing clear hammer marks on one side. There are grinding striations. The base of the socket is 17.5mm from a worn edge. Asymmetrical casting with casting seam. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | West Hanney 2009 | 59.36 | null | null | null | 32.73 | 1 | David Williams | Michael Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Vale of White Horse | West Hanney | SU4092 | From a paper map | 51.625402 | -1.423561 | BERK-C20087 | null | 541PortionOf Axe PTkt.jpg | Fragment of Bronze Age Axe | The British Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
429,175 | Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,150 | -800 | A late Bronze Age socketed incomplete axe head (1150-800BC). The fragment comprises the blade and part of the body. The axe head is hollow to a depth of 17.35mm (approximately half way down its length). The blade expands and there are blade tip hollows to either side. There are no traces of hammer or file marks alo... |
This axe head was possibly miscast or cut into pieces for recasting.
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 133.47 | null | null | 22.49 | 51.48 | 1 | Kate Sumnall | Kate Sumnall | London | Greater London Authority | Bexley | Erith | TQ5178 | null | 51.480805 | 0.173141 | LON-8EE167 | null | Dunford-BAAxe-Apr08.jpg | A late Bronze Age socketed incomplete axe head | Museum of London | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
429,704 | Chisel | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,150 | -900 | A complete Late Bronze Age cast copper-alloy tanged chisel (1150 BC-800 BC).
It is triangular in form and rectangular in cross-section. The tang flares out for a distance of about 32.0mm and then flares more widely to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is evenly rounded in plan and is steeply 'V'-shaped in side view.... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-01-12T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 20.29 | null | null | 4.6 | 52.2 | 1 | David W Williams | Frank Basford | South East | Isle of Wight | Isle of Wight | Gurnard | SZ4894 | GPS (from the finder) | 50.74363 | -1.321067 | IOW-BD7F42 | null | IOW2011-2-64.JPG | Late Bronze Age Chisel | Isle of Wight Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
430,129 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,100 |
Bronze Age copper alloy palstave axehead.
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This record was originally left unfinished and has been updated and promoted so that it can be of use to researchers. It falls below our current standards for recording and identification.
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 1 | Danielle Wootton | Danielle Wootton | South West | Devon | South Hams | Ivybridge | SX6356 | Centred on parish | 50.387883 | -3.928531 | DEV-265F11 | null | pa;stave axe ivybridge.jpg | PalstaveaxeheadDevon | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
432,217 | Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,150 | -800 | Tip of a narrow-bladed Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe or chisel. The object is in fair condition, is 25mm long, 23mm wide, 7mm thick and weighs 18.47g. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 1992-09-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 18.47 | null | null | 7 | 25 | 1 | Phil Harding | Phil Harding | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Charnwood | Queniborough | SK6512 | From finder | 52.701781 | -1.039515 | LEIC-141478 | null | CAD307c.jpg | Bronze age axehead or chisel | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
432,986 | Awl | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,350 | -801 | Bronze age copper alloy awl. It has an elongated eliptical shape, and consists of a square-sectioned, copper alloy spike which tapers at both ends. Both ends are slightly damaged. It may be the blade of a hand tool (missing its handle). The object is in fair condition, is 47mm long, 4mm wide, 5mm thick and weighs 3.29g... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2001-10-04T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 3.29 | null | null | 5 | 47 | 1 | Phil Harding | Phil Harding | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Charnwood | Barkby Thorpe | SK6308 | From finder | 52.666063 | -1.069872 | LEIC-7D2775 | null | CAD802c.jpg | Bronze Age awl | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
432,989 | Button | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | POST MEDIEVAL | -2,350 | 1,650 | Copper alloy button-like object, possibly Bronze Age. The upper surface has a series of concentric ridges around a central pellet in a round depression. The rear face has an attachment loop formed by a semi-circular loop. The object is in good condition, is 18 mm diameter, 8mm thick and weighs 5.29g. | Pre P.A.S. record, recorded by Bob Rutland, ref. no. M13329/B3. Bob Rutland unconvinced that BA. Similar to BA items displayed at Flag Fen; details sent 1999 to Flag Fen but no reply. | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 5.29 | null | 18 | 8 | null | 1 | Phil Harding | Phil Harding | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Charnwood | Wymeswold | SK5924 | From finder | 52.810328 | -1.126141 | LEIC-7D7AC3 | null | CAD661c.jpg | Bronze age button-like object | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
433,217 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,500 | -1,150 | A complete, but concreted, Middle Bronze Age cast copper-alloy palstave axehead from the Acton Park (phase 2) or Taunton phases, probably Taunton (c. 1500 - c. 1150 BC). It is unlooped with high, curved flanges (max. H.: 26.9mm), fused to the stop ridge. The septum (the area between the flange facets and the stop ridge... |
Thanks to Peter Reavill (Shropshire FLO) for his help with description and parallels
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-12-20T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 310 | null | null | 26.9 | 155.7 | 1 | Rob Webley | Rob Webley | South East | Hampshire | Winchester | Bishops Waltham | SU5616 | Generated from computer mapping software | 50.940731 | -1.204339 | HAMP-9FE7C0 | null | HAMP-9FE7C0palstave.jpg | Middle Bronze Age palstave | Winchester Museums Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
433,341 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -950 | -750 | Late Bronze Age socketed axe of uncertain type and probably of Ewart Park metalworking industry dated to 950 - 750BC (Needham 1996).
The axe is fragmentary, represented by the blade only (with a surviving length of 42.32mm and a weight of 87.4g). The axe is of sub-hexagonal section at the break (with a width of 44.3... | null | 3 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-03-11T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 87.4 | null | null | null | 42.32 | 1 | Mark Lodwick | Mark Lodwick | Wales | Bridgend | Bridgend | Pencoed | SS9480 | null | 51.508954 | -3.528785 | NMGW-A4F441 | null | 2009.140.1.jpg | Socketed Axehead | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
433,463 | Flat Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,100 | -1,900 | A cast copper-alloy axehead of early Bronze Age date. The axehead is incomplete, missing the end of the butt. It is of late Migdale metalworking tradition, dating to Stage III of the early Bronze Age, spanning Needham's Period 2, c. 2,300 to 2,050 BC and the beginning of Period 3, c. 2050 to 1700 BC (Needham 1996, 127 ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z | 2010-11-30T00:00:00Z | null | null | 331.3 | null | null | 9.99 | 119.5 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Staffordshire | Lichfield | Hamstall Ridware | SK1118 | Generated from computer mapping software | 52.759497 | -1.838439 | WMID-DCC172 | null | WMID-DCC172.jpg | Early Bronze Age copper-alloy flat axe | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
435,317 | Casting Waste | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | ROMAN | -1,500 | 400 | Copper alloy (bronze) casting waste of uncertain date; most probably Mid - Late Bronze Age (1500-700 BC). However, due to the lack of context and the continuation of casting styles this artefact could be dated from Bronze Age - Roman period (c. 1500 BC - 450 AD). This fragment is from the neck (funnel / well) of a comp... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 55.46 | null | null | 17.1 | 38.2 | 1 | Peter Reavill | Peter Reavill | West Midlands | County of Herefordshire | County of Herefordshire | Lucton | SO4464 | null | 52.271288 | -2.822099 | HESH-B55DB1 | null | HESH-B55DB1.jpg | Bronze Age: Casting Waste | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
435,520 | Sword | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,100 | -800 | Cast Bronze Age sword, broken in two pieces. Probably Ewart Park, c.1100- 800 BC.
Although it is in two pieces, it is complete except for the hilt, which has broken at the shoulder, it is missing the grip and finial.
The edges of the blade are slightly damaged, and the tip appears slightly bent. It widens at the mi... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-03-13T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 1 | Frances McIntosh | Frances McIntosh | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Scarborough | Brompton | SE9482 | Centred on parish | 54.225102 | -0.559675 | DUR-CBD092 | null | DUR-CBD092_both.jpg | Bronze Age Sword | Durham County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
435,732 | Palstave | Bronze Age | null | null | null | null | Denuded copper alloy unlooped palstave in two fragments, found some years ago in the top of a mound (GAT PRN 26156) at the above NGR whilst using a metal detector.
The palstave has a flaring blade, although the cutting edge is no longer present and one tip is missing. The rounded stop-ridge is well-defined and a cle... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 174.7 | null | null | 16.7 | 141.5 | 1 | Nina Steele | Nina Steele | Wales | Conwy | Conwy | Trefriw | SH7660 | Generated from computer mapping software | 53.122708 | -3.85445 | GAT-0921C3 | null | PRN_24143010.JPG | Bronze Age Axe (side A view) | Gwynedd Archaeological Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
437,199 | Chisel | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,400 | -1,250 | Bronze age (Taunton phase?) copper alloy chisel fragment, 23mm long, 19mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 10.86 grams. The object consists of the tip of the chisel and is rectangular in form and triangular in section. The tip is quite worn and un-even and the interior has a sub circular v... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 10.86 | null | null | 6 | 23 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Wendy Scott | Eastern | Bedford | Bedford | Stagsden | SP9950 | null | 52.139435 | -0.554836 | LEIC-B261C6 | null | B261C6.JPG | Bronze age copper alloy chisel fragment | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
437,249 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,400 | -1,700 | Cast copper alloy flat axe dating from the very Early Bronze Age c. 2400-1500BC. The axehead is sub triangular in plan with a wide curved blade which tapers to a curved butt and is rectangular in section and there are no signs of a stop ridge. It has a rounded butt and a flared cutting edge with concave shoulders. The ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Donated to a museum | Metal detector | 2011-02-05T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 18.93 | null | null | 6 | 90 | 1 | Stuart Noon | Stuart Noon | North West | Lancashire | Ribble Valley | Rimington | SD8244 | From finder | 53.891862 | -2.275369 | LANCUM-B3C250 | null | LANCUM-B3C250.jpg | Cast copper alloy flat axe dating from the Early Bronze Age, that is c. 2150-1500BC | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
437,304 | Casting Waste | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | ROMAN | -2,150 | 410 | A fragment of copper alloy, probable casting waste, possibly of Bronze Age dating (2150 BC to 800 BC). However, due to the lack of context and continuation of casting styles, this fragment could be dated from the Bronze Age through to the Roman Period (c.2150 BC - 410 AD).
The fragment is sub triangular in plan, and... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 36.8 | null | null | 12.81 | 43.87 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | North West | Lancashire | West Lancashire | ORMSKIRK | SD3807 | From a paper map | 53.555945 | -2.937373 | LVPL-C31844 | null | LVPL-C31844.jpg | Bronze Age to Roman: Casting waste | National Museums Liverpool | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
437,784 | Adze | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,500 | -1,150 | A cast copper alloy Middle Bronze Age Palstave Adze. The cutting edge is on the vertical and is heavily abraded and corroded. In plan it is a slender elongated triangle which is slightly swollen along the centre of the lateral edges. The butt is also heavily abraded and corroded. The butt portion has a rectangular cell... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 113.5 | null | null | 16.21 | 111.29 | 1 | Dot Boughton | Angie Bolton | West Midlands | Warwickshire | Stratford-on-Avon | Tanworth-in-Arden | SP1470 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.327917 | -1.795993 | WAW-F2B395 | null | WAW-F2B395.jpg | Middle Bronze Age Palstave Adze | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
437,984 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,150 | -1,700 | A copper alloy early Bronze Age flat axe, dating from c. 2150- 1700 BC. In plan, from the square (incomplete?) butt end the width gently expands to the blade end and then curves out at a greater angle to the corners of the blade. The blade edge and tips are damaged. In section, the axe is sub rectangular and there a... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2010-07-31T23:00:00Z | 2010-11-11T00:00:00Z | null | null | 152.07 | null | null | 9.58 | 102.02 | 1 | Amy Downes | Amy Downes | Yorkshire and the Humber | Wakefield | Wakefield | Hemsworth | SE4112 | Generated from computer mapping software | 53.602967 | -1.381888 | SWYOR-42AC71 | null | PAS_1359_axe.jpg | Bronze Age flat axe | West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
438,218 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,600 | -800 | Bronze Age cast copper alloy blade tip. The fragment is sub-triangular with curved edges tapering into a point. It has an elongated oval cross section. 36.66mm long, 14.07mm wide, 3.10mm thick. 5.5 grams. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-03-27T00:00:00Z | null | null | The Rodings, Essex | 5.1 | null | null | 3.1 | 36.66 | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | Eastern | Essex | Uttlesford | Margaret Roding | TL5910 | Recorded at a rally | 51.766105 | 0.302764 | ESS-57A383 | null | MR205a.jpg | ESS-57A383 Bronze Age blade tip | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
438,500 | Scabbard | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,150 | -800 | Fragment of a late Bronze Age 'tongue' shaped scabbard chape. The surviving section is an elongated trapezoid in plan and it has a narrow hexagonal cross section.There is damage to both ends. There is a pronounced central rib running along the front and back face. It has a mid-green patina.The artefact is damaged, wit... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2006-12-31T00:00:00Z | null | null | 33.69 | null | null | null | 69.89 | 1 | Laura McLean | Laura McLean | Eastern | Essex | Uttlesford | Hatfield Broad Oak | TL5516 | From finder | 51.82113 | 0.247525 | ESS-6B22A3 | null | ESS-6B22A3.jpg | ESS-6B22A3 Bronze Age scabbard | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
438,619 | Spear | Bronze Age | null | null | null | null | Copper alloy spearhead in two pieces. It is solid for 70mm from the tip, beyond that the object is hollow. The socket is lozenge shaped. The blade does not have a prominent mid-rib but is a smooth narrow lozenge in section. The narrowness of the form suggests this maybe the tip of a lunate-opening spearhead the date of... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 42 | null | null | 9.11 | 142.32 | 1 | Roland Flook | Roland Flook | Wales | Gwynedd | Gwynedd | Dyffryn Ardudwy | SH5820 | From finder | 52.75889 | -4.105718 | GAT-704577 | null | Tal y bont BA spearhead series 3 026.jpg | late Bronze Age spearhead | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
439,378 | Spear | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | Middle-Bronze age copper alloy spear-head, 172mm long and 31mm at the widest point of the blade. The blade has a 2mm wide point and is sub triangular in form, having long tapering edges which terminate in a shallow curve. It has a thin mid rib which widens to a 14mm diameter at the start of the shaft, terminating at 20... | Very similar to NMGW-A67EA6 and BERK-2D0061. | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-04-15T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 82.38 | null | 20 | null | 172 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Emily Woolnough | East Midlands | Leicestershire | Hinckley and Bosworth | Sutton Cheney | SK3900 | GPS (from the finder) | 52.596401 | -1.42567 | LEIC-D958C8 | null | LEIC-D958C8.jpg | bronze age copper alloy spear head | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
440,718 | Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,500 | -1,050 | A fragment of an early-middle Bronze Age, cast, copper alloy - bronze, axe head or palstave. Broken, small, rounded, rectangular or elongate 'D' shape butt fragment with wedge shaped section tapering to the rounded 'D' shaped end. Green and pale brown coloured, slightly pitted and corroded surface with some spots of ar... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-02-27T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 11.9 | null | null | 5.3 | 22.42 | 1 | Geoff Burr | Geoff Burr | South East | Surrey | Tandridge | Titsey | TQ3856 | GPS (from the finder) | 51.286426 | -0.022485 | KENT-182263 | null | DSCN5866.JPG | Kent-182263. Fragment of a Bronze Age axe or palstave. Front view. | All rights reserved | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
441,390 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,500 | -1,300 | A complete Middle Bronze Age palstave. The axe displays hammering on its blade and has a shield-shaped hollow below its stop ridge.
The axe measures 104.24mm long and is 21.27mm wide. The blade is narrow and measures 25.44mm across. The distance from the apex to the inside of the stop is 41.87 and the maximum width o... | Peter Reavill comments:
This is an example of an unlooped primary shield pattern palstave - Early Palstaves Group I (after Schmidt and Burgess), probably best paralled against examples in Schmidt and Burgess, cat no - 777-779. These are described as having shallow depressions below the stop ridge sometime... | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 128 | null | null | null | 104.24 | 1 | Peter Reavill | David W Williams | South East | Windsor and Maidenhead | Windsor and Maidenhead | Cookham | SU9084 | Generated from computer mapping software | 51.547725 | -0.703459 | SUR-910C71 | null | DSCN1775.JPG | Bronze Age: Palstave axe | Berkshire Archaeology | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
441,439 | Spearhead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -800 | A fragment of a cast copper alloy Bronze Age spear head. The fragment consists of only the very tip of the spearhead - it has a narrrow and slender tip with a pronounced midrib. The midrib is sub-triangular in section and is flanked by wide tapering wings that join at the tip. The tip is pointed and still very sharp. T... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2011-03-11T00:00:00Z | null | null | 2.8 | null | null | 4.06 | 31.25 | 1 | Anni Byard | Anni Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Cherwell | Chesterton | SP5520 | Centred on village (which isn't a parish) | 51.875865 | -1.202472 | BERK-938712 | null | 2010812.jpg | Bronze Age spear: Spear head tip | Oxfordshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
442,654 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -2,300 | -2,050 | An incomplete cast copper alloy narrow butted flat axe, dating to the Early Bronze Age (MAIII, c. 2300-2050 BC). The remains of the axe consists of a slightly flared blade and a small portion of the narrowing body. The butt and a portion of the axe body are missing and the remains exhibit an old break across its rectan... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-02-28T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 37.99 | null | null | 8.03 | 37.9 | 1 | Stephanie Smith | Claire Goodey | South East | East Sussex | Wealden | Willingdon and Jevington | TQ5600 | null | 50.778602 | 0.21135 | SUSS-290724 | null | SUSS-290724EarlyBronzeAgeAxe.JPG | SUSS-290724EarlyBronzeAgeAxe | Sussex Archaeological Society | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
442,829 | Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,150 | -800 | A cast bronze socketed axehead, of a Late Bronze Age date c. 1150-800 BC, which has been heavily damaged in antiquity. The axehead is 51.48mm in length from damaged blade end to mouth with a body width of 16.72mm and weighs 114.2g. The thickness of the body is 5.37mm. There is a single mouth opening, sub-rectangular in... | null | 3 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 114.2 | null | null | 5.37 | 51.48 | 1 | Helen Murphy | Helen Murphy | East Midlands | Lincolnshire | West Lindsey | Scotter | SE9000 | From finder | 53.489024 | -0.645021 | LVPL-3E6D90 | null | LVPL-3E6D90.jpg | Bronze Age; looped and socketed axe head | National Museums Liverpool | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
442,844 | Unidentified Object | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | IRON AGE | -1,250 | -100 | A cast copper alloy 'moustache' shaped object of uncertain use. The object is three-dimensional and consists of a pair of drooping ovoid elements with pointed tips, hence 'moustache' shaped. These ovoids are decorated with multiple grooves running down the body of each ovoid but stopping before the tip. In the centre o... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2011-03-16T00:00:00Z | null | null | 29.5 | null | null | 13.4 | 34.66 | 1 | Anni Byard | Anni Byard | South East | West Berkshire | West Berkshire | Hampstead Norreys | SU5175 | Centred on field | 51.471674 | -1.267128 | BERK-3F46D5 | null | 2010836.jpg | Bronze Age: Unidentified 'moustache-like' object | Oxfordshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
444,063 | Socketed Axehead | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,000 | -800 | A cast copper-alloy late Bronze Age socketed Axehead. The axehead is complete but suffers from severe pitting from copper corrosion. The socket is sub-square in shape and measures approximately 24.4 mm by 24.4 mm. The body of the axehead is rectangular in plan, flaring at the blade. It is triangular in profile, taperin... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z | 2011-03-28T23:00:00Z | null | null | 204.4 | null | null | 31.6 | 95.8 | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Staffordshire | Lichfield | Whittington | SK1509 | From finder | 52.678495 | -1.779575 | WMID-D16B77 | null | WMID-D16B77.jpg | Copper-alloy Bronze Age axe head | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
444,529 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -800 | Bronze age copper alloy axe blade, 66mm long, 27mm wide and 14mm thick. The object is in poor condition and weighs 79.86 grams. It consists of the rounded tip of an axe. The break is extremely worn, suggesting it occured in antiquity. The blade and the surface are also worn and in parts, missing. The shape of the blade... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-04-12T23:00:00Z | 2011-05-10T23:00:00Z | null | null | 79.86 | null | null | 14 | 66 | 1 | Wendy Scott | Wendy Scott | East Midlands | Leicestershire | North West Leicestershire | Isley cum Langley | SK4322 | From finder | 52.79386 | -1.363754 | LEIC-F8A320 | null | F8A320.JPG | Bronze age copper alloy axe tip | Leicestershire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
444,826 | Button | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | IRON AGE | -900 | 43 | A cast copper-alloy button of almost certain prehistoric date. There is a possibility that the button may be as early as late Bronze Age, although an Iron Age date is also possible. The button is discoudal and has decoration on the front consisting of a cast central circular boss within concentric grooves and a downwar... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-03-27T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | 3.8 | null | 20.64 | 3.6 | null | 1 | Tom Brindle | Tom Brindle | West Midlands | Shropshire | Shropshire | Claverley | SO8195 | From finder | 52.552508 | -2.28165 | WMID-498A82 | null | WMID-498A82.jpg | Prehistoric copper-alloy button of late Bronze Age or Iron Age date | Birmingham Museums Trust | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
445,139 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | null | -1,500 | -1,275 | A complete middle Bronze Age cast copper alloy palstave, dating circa 1500-1150 AD. The object is a shallow trapezoid in plan, expanding out towards the cutting edge. There is a pronounced stop ridge and shallow flanges. The cutting edge is rounded and shows signs of wear. There is corrosion present on the surface. It ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-04-30T23:00:00Z | null | null | null | 92.7 | null | null | 12.66 | 90.87 | 1 | Murray Dedman | Murray Dedman | Eastern | Essex | null | null | TL8817 | null | 51.819993 | 0.726338 | ESS-622131 | null | ESS-622131a.jpg | ESS-622131 Bronze Age Short Flanged Axe | Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
445,530 | Hammer | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,100 | -800 | A complete cast copper alloy socketed Hammer of Bronze Age dating.
The socketed hammer is rectangular in plan and cross section, and cuboid in shape. Each face exhibits a panel of ridged decoration at the top, and U shaped recess at the base. Casting ridges are present down each side, and have been smoothed off. The ... |
Find was photographed and recorded whilst at a club meeting.
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 97.4 | null | null | 22.53 | 57.01 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Ryedale | Kirkbymoorside | null | null | null | null | LVPL-89D1D3 | null | LVPL-89D1D3.jpg | Middle to Late Bronze Age: Socketed Hammer | National Museums Liverpool | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
445,613 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,200 | -800 | An incomplete cast copper alloy probable palstave fragment or possible tanged chisel, of probable Bronze Age dating (1200 BC to 800 BC).
It measures 29.75mm long, 21.09mm wide and 6.37 mm thick. It weighs 15.0 grams. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 15 | null | null | 6.37 | 29.75 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | North West | Cheshire West and Chester | Cheshire West and Chester | Dutton | SJ6079 | From a paper map | 53.306423 | -2.601738 | LVPL-8E1731 | null | lvpl-8e1731.jpg | Middle to Late Bronze Age: Probable Axe blade fragment | National Museums Liverpool | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
445,620 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,000 | -800 | An incomplete blade fragment, probably from a cast copper alloy palstave, of Middle Bronze Age dating (1000 BC to 800 BC). It is likely to be from the Acton Park II industry.
It measures 43.87mm long, 46.37mm wide and 10.20mm thick. It weighs 73.0 grams. |
Find was photographed and recorded whilst at a club meeting. Thanks are extended to Peter Reavill (FLO - Herefordshire & Shropshire) for helping in confirming the identification of this find.
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 73 | null | null | 10.2 | 43.87 | 1 | Teresa Gilmore | Teresa Gilmore | North West | Lancashire | West Lancashire | ORMSKIRK | SD4409 | From a paper map | 53.5746 | -2.84717 | LVPL-8E83D6 | null | LVPL-8E83D6.jpg | Middle Bronze Age: Palstave blade fragment | National Museums Liverpool | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,090 | Rapier | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | A tip of a copper alloy Middle Bronze Age (1500-1150 BC) rapier, dagger or dirk trapezoidal in plan with a lozengiform cross section. Highly worn and abraided. | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | West Hanney 2009 | 3.67 | null | null | 2.5 | 26.4 | 1 | Rob Webley | Michael Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Vale of White Horse | West Hanney | SU4092 | From a paper map | 51.625402 | -1.423561 | BERK-D045D1 | null | 810 Rapier Tip Tkt P.jpg | Middle Bronze Age Rapier tip | The British Museum | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,407 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,500 | -800 |
Copper alloy blade fragment of Bronze age date. Probably sword tip. The blade has a rounded tip and is pointed oval in section, with a worn central rib. The blade has broken at the upper end and is slightly bent. The edges are damaged.
| null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 7 | null | null | null | 45 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NARC-E2BC07 | null | NARC-E2BC07 a.jpg | blade | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,601 | Axe | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -2,300 | -800 | Blade fragment of a Bronze Age axe, c.2300 BC- 800 BC.
The blade edge is curved, and appears complete. It has broken before the shaft, having a rectangular cross-section at the broken edge where it is thickening. The axe has a dark brown patina which is slightly patchy due to corrosion.
As so little remains it is n... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 32.1 | null | null | 10.73 | 22.33 | 1 | Frances McIntosh | Frances McIntosh | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Scarborough | Brompton | SE9482 | Centred on village (which isn't a parish) | 54.225102 | -0.559675 | DUR-F2F216 | null | DUR-F2F216_axe.jpg | Bronze Age axe- DUR-F2F216 | Durham County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,663 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,300 | -1,000 | Cast bronze Palstave axe, dating to the Penard/Wilburton phases, c. 1300- 1000 BC.
It is mostly complete but the blade is slightly broken and the handle has broken and is missing just the very end, and the butt. It has a single small side-loop, which measures 22.96mm in length.
The blade has uneven edges, and is ... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2011-03-03T00:00:00Z | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 108.72 | 1 | Frances McIntosh | Frances McIntosh | Yorkshire and the Humber | North Yorkshire | Scarborough | Brompton | SE9482 | Centred on parish | 54.225102 | -0.559675 | DUR-F4B4B2 | null | DUR-F4B4B2_axe.jpg | Palstave axe- DUR-F4B4B2 | Durham County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,765 | Blade | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -900 | Bronze blade tip, probably from a dirk or rapier of uncertain type and probably of Middle to Late Bronze Age date, c. 1500 - 900BC.
The dirk is fragmentary and is represented by the tip only (with a surviving length of 53.3mm and a weight of 10.4g). The blade is of lozenge section at the break (where it has a width o... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-06-25T23:00:00Z | 2009-07-09T23:00:00Z | null | null | 10.4 | null | null | null | 53.3 | 1 | Simone-Louise Johnson | Simone-Louise Johnson | South West | Gloucestershire | Forest of Dean | Woolaston | ST5899 | null | 51.688175 | -2.608965 | PUBLIC-F7D946 | null | 2009.154.1.jpg | Bronze Age Dirk | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
446,816 | Palstave | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,500 | -1,150 | Butt end fragment of a Middle Bronze Age palstave axehead, c. 1500-1150 BC. |
No further information or image available
| 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-09-18T23:00:00Z | null | null | West Hanney 2009 | 26.2 | null | null | 13.75 | 31.73 | 1 | Katie Hinds | Michael Byard | South East | Oxfordshire | Vale of White Horse | West Hanney | SU4092 | From a paper map | 51.625402 | -1.423561 | BERK-F8F764 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
447,271 | Gouge | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -950 | -750 | Late Bronze Age socketed gouge, probably of Ewart Park metalworking, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 7, and dated to c. 950 - 750BC
The socketed gouge is near-complete, with some peripheral damage around the mouth and blade (with a surviving length of 77.2mm and a weight of 50.5g). The mouth is circular (wit... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | 2009-06-23T23:00:00Z | 2009-07-08T23:00:00Z | null | null | 50.5 | null | null | null | 77.2 | 1 | Simone-Louise Johnson | Simone-Louise Johnson | Wales | the Vale of Glamorgan | the Vale of Glamorgan | Llantwit Major | SS9767 | null | 51.392659 | -3.481784 | PUBLIC-1EF534 | null | 2009.188.1.jpg | Bronze Age Socketed Gouge | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Attribution-ShareAlike License | ||
447,531 | Gouge | Bronze Age | Bronze Age | BRONZE AGE | -1,150 | -800 | A copper alloy socketed gouge dating to the Late Bronze Age betweem c. 1150 and c. 800 BC.
The gouge has a hollow socket, circular in section, which narrows to form a flaring and curved blade edge. The gouge is in good condition with an even green patina.
The socketed end is 17mm in diameter. The gouge is 92mm long... | null | 4 | Copper alloy | null | Returned to finder | Metal detector | null | null | null | null | 49.75 | null | 17 | null | 92 | 1 | Julie Cassidy | Julie Cassidy | East Midlands | Northamptonshire | Daventry | Preston Capes | SP5953 | From a paper map | 52.172116 | -1.138697 | NARC-5D5F57 | null | NARC-5D5F57 a.jpg | gouge | Northamptonshire County Council | Attribution-ShareAlike License |
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