dejp3/bronze-age-objects-pas huggingface dataset:
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1600 to -1001)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Wymondham, South Norfolk, Norfolk (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 50 mm
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Weight: 6.29 g
Description: Middle Bronze Age copper alloy chisel, comprising a rectangular-sectioned tang expanding from a pointed end without a stop ridge or collar towards a crescentic blade. Small parts of the cutting edge are missing. A reduced version of Inventaria Archaeologica (1954) G.B.6, no.5. Length 50mm. Width of blade 16.3mm. Thickness 3.4mm. Weight 6.29g. c.1600 - c.1000 BC.



Field T
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -701)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Wymondham, South Norfolk, Norfolk (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 30 mm
Thickness: 12.5 mm
Description: Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, the inner end of the socket and the cutting edge. The main break is not recent but probably not ancient, being quite granular. On and around the cutting edge there is much recent scuffing and loss of the patinated surface. Extant length, width and thickness 30, 47 and 12.5mm. Weight 36.98g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.



Field RW
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -701)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Great Ellingham, Breckland, Norfolk (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 23.5 mm
Weight: 14.78 g
Description: Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed chisel, the inner end of the squashed socket and the cutting edge. The main break is ancient and there is some recent scuffing. Extant length and width 23.5 and 30mm. Weight 14.78g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.



Field G4
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-900 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Wanborough, Guildford, Surrey (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 21.92 mm
Weight: 7.34 g
Description: 
A fragment from the corner of the body of a Late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe of unequal thickness.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Unidentified Object (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE ( to )
Material: Gold 
Found: Grafton Regis, South Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 31.9 mm
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 1.51 g
Description: A length of gold strip or &lsquo;ribbon&rsquo;, with eight longitudinal lines incised or grooved into the gold on one side only. 

Condition: broken at either end with no signs of preformation or terminal (some examples previously discovered do feature these elements). The ends are broken and ragged and there are a number of tears and folds along the body of the strip.

Dimensions: 

Length: 32mm

Width: 9mm

Weight: 1.52g

Gold content: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the strip by the British Museum Scientific Research team indicated a surface composition of approximately 86-88% gold, 11-12% silver, the rest being copper (1-2%). See appended report. 

Discussion: Similar grooved, pierced gold ribbons are well known, examples include: 2013 T326 (WILT-26F931), 2007 T692 (WAW-C0C0B3), 2014 T63 (BERK-387817), and 2013 T154 (PAS-067AC5); 2012 T577 (ESS-C13B97.

The incised linear decoration of the strip can be paralleled on a number of gold strips and &#39;ribbons&#39; of known and very probable Bronze Age date, particularly the find from Sherborne St John, Hampshire (2013 T154), which also had a single perforation to one and was decorated on only one side. The dimensions and weights of the bands are also comparable. The Tendering strip also bears comparison with gold strips from The Hamel, Oxfordshire (Case 1981; Palmer 1981); Corringham, Lincolnshire (2011 T459); Sproxton, North Yorkshire (2010 T664); Flixton, North Yorkshire (2003 T40a&amp;b); and Ansley, Warwickshire (2007 T672). The find from The Hamel, Oxfordshire, came from the same layer as typologically late Beaker pottery dating to the Early Bronze Age (cf. Needham 2005).
Notes: Due to the precious metal content of this object being over 10% gold, and it being over 300 years old, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.

Author: Neil Wilkin &ndash; Curator, The British Museum
Subsequent action: Submitted for consideration as Treasure
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-900 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Bix and Assendon, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 44.3 mm
Thickness: 11.38 mm
Weight: 28.13 g
Description: 
A very worn Late Bronze Age copper-alloy fragment of a socketed axe. What survives is the blade with the base of the socket.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1150 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Ince Blundell, Sefton, Sefton (North West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 54 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 14.64 g
Description: Possibly an incomplete mid to late Bronze Age tang off a chisel or awl, probably dating from the Ewart Park phase, c 1150- 800BC. The length is 54mm, the width is 12mm thickness 8mm and the weight 14.64g. Tanged chisels, which date from c. 1150-850 BC, are known from several hoards and as isolated finds. Several tanged chisels, or elements of them, are recorded on this database (for example, see BH-49EAD8). Tanged chisels and awls have few diagnostic features and change little through time, making their dating and identification more difficult and their dating is further hampered by a lack of associated datable artefacts within hoards but tend to date to the Late Bronze Age, c. 1250-800BC, but maybe much later. Similar to SUR-435CC1 and ESS-159732.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Axe (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2300 to -1700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Peckleton, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 44 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 71.87 g
Description: Bronze age copper alloy flat? axe fragment. The fragment consists of a curved and slightly flared blade end on a rectangular cross sectioned solid body.  The shape would suggest an early Bronze age date (2300-1700 BC), see   YORYM-C26951   DUR-764732



Length: 44 mm, width: 35 mm, thickness: 14.0 mm, weight: 71.87 g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Pin (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1400 to -1250)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 74.85 mm
Diameter: 24.75 mm
Weight: 27.82 g
Description: A very unusual Middle Bronze Age looped pin dating to c.1400-1250BC (the 'Ornament Horizon'). The pin has a dark brown patina with small green surface pits caused by corrosion.



The pin has broken across its projecting loop and the lower part of the shaft is missing. There is a casting void visible in the break. The pin has a swelling shaft which is extensively decorated; five groups of bands encircle the shaft in the order 5,4,5,6, 6 with the band of five being closest to the head of the pin and the band of six at the break in the shaft. In three instances the space between two individual grooves is infilled with transverse nicks (or short straight lines). The wider space left between the band of five and the band of six is infilled with a closely-spaced diamond lattice of grooves. The shaft of the pin widens and splays as it meets the flat circular (24.75mm diameter) back of the head of the pin which is extensively covered with abrasions caused by grinding.



On the outer face of the circular head is a cylindrical projection with a dished interior; this is presumably intended for a missing setting, perhaps of amber. Around this cylinder is a circle of fourteen truncated cones which project a little beyond the central cylinder.



This highly unusual pin has no close parallels.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1400 to -1000)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Grafton and Radcot, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 210 mm
Weight: 142 g
Description: A complete copper alloy Bronze Age pegged and looped spear head dating to the Middle Bronze Age,1500-1150 BC. The spear is 210 mm in length and 39.90 mm at its widest point. The spear consists of a leaf-shaped blade, which tapers towards the tip. The blade is lozenge-form in cross section; the blade edges are rough in places, showing some wear and tear. The blade has a circular cross-sectioned mid-rib which gradually widens towards the base of the blade to form the socket. The mid-rib has a pronounced moulded groove bordering each side of the blade. At the top of each of these grooves, there is an elongated loop either side of the shaft, c 9.24 mm in length and 3 mm wide.



The top of the shaft displays some wear resulting in jagged edges for about half the circumference. A peghole pierces the shaft on each side, 18.42 mm down from the top of the shaft, in line with the leaves on the blade. These holes are c 4.82 mm in diameter. The socket is 20.79 mm in internal diameter.



One surface of the shaft is pierced in several places along much of the length of the blade, just above the groove: there are two small holes; another larger at 8.40 mm long; and a substantial rent 40.55 mm long and 6.26 mm high. In general, the surface of the shaft is smooth and uniform, with patches of green patina in places, above and below, mainly confined to the grooves.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1200 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Iwerne Minster, North Dorset, Dorset (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 167.9 mm
Thickness: 11.43 mm
Weight: 69.07 g
Description: A copper-alloy socketed side-looped spearhead of Bronze age date. The spearhead is broken into two conjoining pieces but is otherwise well preserved. The blades are curves along the outer edges and remain sharp. There is a prominent midrib between the blades which flares towards and extends into the socket. The midrib and socket have a circular cross section. The socket is flared to the base. It retains one curved side loop, the other is broken off.



Date: Middle to Late Bronze Age - c. 1200 - 800 BC



Peter Reavill has identified this as dating to the Penard phase of the Bronze Age.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1550 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Cropton, Ryedale, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 27.5 mm
Thickness: 9.9 mm
Weight: 6.4 g
Description: An incomplete copper-alloy spearhead dating from the Middle or Late Bronze Age, about 1550 – 800 BC. Only the tip of the spear remains which is triangular in plan and lozenge in section with mid-ribs. The remaining socket is filled with organic material as a result of its deposition.



An insufficient portion of the spear remains to prove diagnostic, therefore a specific type cannot be attributed, though it is probably comparable with the range of spearheads in Davis Groups 6-11.



The metal has a dark grey/green patina and is worn. The spear is 27.5mm long, 16.7mm wide, 9.9mm thick and weighs 6.4g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1200 to -1000)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Iwerne Minster, North Dorset, Dorset (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 149.7 mm
Thickness: 12.1 mm
Weight: 42.86 g
Description: An incomplete Bronze Age socketed and side looped spearhead. The spearhead is in two conjoining pieces, broken accross the socket below the blades. The end of the socket is damaged and incomplete.The blades are outcurved at the base before tapering in to a narrow tip, forming a flame-shape. There is prominent midrib running between the blades and extending into the socket. The midrib is lozengiform in cross section as is the upper part of the socket. The lower end of the socket is circular in cross section. There is a low flattish side loop on either side with oval apertures. The upper part of the socket retains what appears to be a piece of mineralised wood.

Date: Middle Bronze Age - c. 1200 - 1000 BC



Peter Reavill suggestes the spearhead is from the Taunton metalwork phase.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE ( to )
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Streatley, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 54 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 15.44 g
Description: A fragment of the tip of a copper-alloy socketed spearhead dating to the Bronze Age. The fragment measures 54mm in length, a maximum of 18mm in width and 9mm in thickness.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1550 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Folkton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 38.7 mm
Thickness: 10.5 mm
Weight: 12.7 g
Description: An incomplete copper-alloy spearhead  dating from the Middle or Late Bronze Age, about 1550 – 800 BC. Only the tip of the spear remains which is triangular in plan and lozenge in section with mid-ribs. No socket is present.



An insufficient portion of the spear remains to prove diagnostic, therefore a specific type cannot be attributed, though it is probably comparable with the range of spearheads in Davis Groups 6-11.



The metal has a mid-green patina and is pitted and worn. The spear is 38.7mm long, 15.3mm wide, 10.5mm thick and weighs 12.7g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Flat Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2250 to -1900)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Shottle and Postern, Amber Valley, Derbyshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 77.6 mm
Thickness: 8.7 mm
Weight: 253.6 g
Description: An incomplete cast copper alloy (Bronze) flat axe of the Early Bronze Age period dating from  c. 2250 BC - 1900 BC.



The flat axe is broadly trapezoidal in plan with a splayed crescent shaped blade. In profile it is broadly lentoid (pointed oval), with slight tapering edges. In cross section the axe is lentoid. The axe is broken toward the butt of the axe, but more than three-quarters of the axe survives. The break is relatively jagged and uneven; however it has a similar patina to that of the rest of the axe - suggesting damage in antiquity. The sides of the axe gently expand in width from the broken edge to the blade. The edges of the axe have not been raised to form flanges. The sides of the blade expand to produce a crescentic blade edge. The tips of the crescent shaped blade have been damaged through abrasion, as has the blade edge itself. There are a series of striations (incised lines / file marks) running across the width of the axe. These are likely to be a result of sharpening the cutting edge. It seems most probable that the axe was cast in an open mould. All the diagnostic elements of the axe are lost (such as shape of butt and hafting specifications). The condition of the axe is poor - the majority of the surface patina has been removed by laminating corrosion, which appears to be active. 



The axe measures 77.6 mm in length, it is 34.4 mm wide at the butt and the blade is 75.2 mm wide. The butt has a thickness of 8.7 mm, the blade is 2.8 mm thick. It weighs 253.6 g.



The object is a dark brown in colour with an uneven patina. Areas of green active corrosion are present on the surface of the object. Abrasion caused by movement whilst within the plough soil may have resulted in the loss of much of the original surface detail. From the blade shape (which could be described as fan-like) it is probable that the axe falls into the Migdale tradition of metalworking. This fits with the Early Bronze Age (EBA phase II / III), of metalworking stage IV-VI, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 2-3 circa 2250 - 1900 CAL. BC. Axes such as this are dated to the same period as Beaker pottery, barbed and tanged flint arrowheads, copper halberds and gold lunulae. Other broadly similar axeheads have been recorded on the database, including HESH-33EA4A, LANCUM-E30276, NMGW-5F8955 and LVPL-DA4598.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Dagger (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1300 to -1150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Edlesborough, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 180 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Description: A copper-alloy dagger, possibly dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age (1300 to 1150 BC). The dagger possesses a lentoidal-section tang which is rectangular in form and expands and flattens to form a rounded terminal. Extending from both the upper and lower surfaces of the tang are small, semi-circular projections measuring 14mm in length and 1mm in width. These projections would have helped secure a handle to the dagger. The tang expands to form the blade which is lentoidal in section and gently tapers to a point, now broken. It measures 180mm in length, the blade has a maximum width of 25mm and a thickness of 3mm. The tang has a width of 14mm.



The object was originally in two pieces and has been restored. It is difficult to fit this small dagger into existing typologies for Bronze Age weaponry and thus its identification must remain tentative. Dot Boughton comments 'that it might belong to the Penard phase, dating to the earliest phase of the Late Bronze Age 1300-1150 BC and be a Ballintober type. Most British Ballintober swords come from the Thames Valley and a small number was found in South West England and South Wales. Until a sword of this type was found near Stranraer (Galloway), the most northerly find came from the River Trent in Nottinghamshire.'
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Farnsfield, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 20 mm
Thickness: 15.6 mm
Weight: 5.8 g
Description: A fragment of a copper alloy, side looped and socketed spear (spearhead) of probably the Middle Bronze Age period, dating from c. BC 1500 - c. BC 1150.



The fragment would have made the tip of the spear. The object is broadly triangular in plan and lozenge (diamond shaped) in section. There is a raised rib running the length of the fragment on both the front and the reverse face. From the rib each side of the fragment slopes down towards the blade. The cutting edges of the blade are damaged and much of the edge is now missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The tip of the fragment is also damaged, probably as a result of post depositional damage whilst within the plough soil. 



The object measures 20.0 mm in length and is 18.8 mm wide at the base of the fragment and the tip is 4.8 mm wide. The tip has a thickness of 4.5 mm, the blade edge is 2.8 mm thick, and the base measures 15.6 mm thick. It weighs 5.8 g. 



The object is a dark green in colour and has an even patina. There is evidence of post depositional damage on the surface of the object in the form of pitting and indentations. Abrasion caused by movement whilst within the plough soil may have resulted in the loss of some of the original surface detail. 



Similar looped spearheads have been dated by Margaret Ehrenberg to the Middle Bronze Age specifically the Acton Park 2, Taunton (Cemmaes) or Pennard metalworking traditions (c. 1500 - 1150BC). Others have been recorded on the database, including HESH-218915.
Notes: The finder notes that this object forms the tip of a spear head previously recorded and found in the same area. The two finders have pieced the two objects together and found they fit perfectly. The spear head is recorded on the PAS database as DENO-3B0107.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Strap Fitting (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to ROMAN (-1150 to 150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Quainton, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 22.8 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 12.67 g
Description: A complete copper alloy strap distributor or toggle dating from the late bronze age to the Roman period, c. 1150 BC to AD 150. The strap distributor is sub rectangular in shape with a rectangular openwork centre. There are four spherical knops at the junction of each angle, with a bar in between each. The bar is oval in cross section. Either side and at the base of one of the spheres the metal has been very worn, suggesting that may have been attached or held something. The strap distributor is a dark brown colour, with patches of light brown red corrosion. The spherical junctions have a light green patina. It measures 22.5mm x 22.8mm x 9.0mm, and weighs 12.67g.



The strap distributor is similar to one of the objects in WILT A74356 (object 7), although only half survives. This is described as a toggle, and is dated from the late Bronze age to early Iron Age.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2350 to -1500)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Coupe Green and Gregson Lane, South Ribble, Lancashire (North West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 68 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 50.21 g
Description: Cast copper alloy flat axe dating to the Early-Mid Bronze Age (2350 - 1500 BC). The axe is narrow with straight but tapering sides and there are no signs of a stop ridge. The sides of the axe are very slightly thickened, but it does not have flanges.



The metal is dark green in colour with a heavily pitted and corroded patina.



The axe probably fits into the earliest phases of metal working in Britain, metalworking stage I-II, which corresponds to Needham's (1996) Period 1-2 circa 2500- 2050 CAL. BC, or slightly later.



Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Database: SWYOR-9EC7C9 WAW-049216, LANCUM-E3C336 and SUR-25F712.



The length is 68mm, the width is 28mm thickness 8mm and the weight 50.21g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1000)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Loppington, Shropshire, Shropshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 87.32 mm
Thickness: 16.08 mm
Weight: 51.4 g
Description: An incomplete copper-alloy spearhead of middle Bronze Age date, circa 1500 - 1000 BC. The tip of the spear remains which is triangular in plan with curved edges. The spearhead has a leaf-shaped blade. A prominent raised circular sectioned midrib runs longitudinally down the centre of each face, which extends from the broken socket terminal to the tip. The damaged socket is circular in section.



The metal has a mid-green patina and is pitted and worn. The spear is 87.32 mm long, 28.98 mm wide, 16.08 mm thick and weighs 51.4 grams.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1800 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Hartpury, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 24 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.61 g
Description: 
~~Copper alloy Bronze Age blade fragment from a knife. This has a low oval cross-section with tapered blades on either side. The front and back ends are truncated making it possible that this is around the middle of the knife. This artefact dates to the middle to late Bronze Age.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1300)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Beeston with Bittering, Breckland, Norfolk (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Weight: 340 g
Description: A Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave axehead (c.1500-c.1300 BC). The axehead is a Group I (shield-pattern) type from the Acton Park phase of Bronze Age metalwork, distinguished by its shield-shaped decoration below the stop ridge.



The butt is H-shaped in section and has some damage to the terminal. The flanges of the butt are wide, and at the end is a pronounched stop-ridge. Beyond this extending onto the blade on both sides is a shield-shaped decoration with a moulded rib that extends from the centre of this and further along the body. The blade is flared and extends to a full crescent.



Both narrower sides of the palstave have a moulded rib running down the middle, perhaps indicative of a casting seam. The axe has a reddish patina with extensive areas of green corrosion all over.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Urchfont, Wiltshire, Wiltshire (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 61 mm
Weight: 30.77 g
Description: An incomplete Bronze Age copper alloy socketed knife, of Thorndon type, dating to c BC1500 - 800. The item consists of the socket, pierced on both sides near the open end for a rivet or similar, and a short section of blade. The socket is 32.24mm in length, and oval in cross section, tapering in thickness from 12.30mm at the open end to 8.13mm at the point where the blade begins. It is 19.92mm in width. The metal of the socket is c2.10mm thick. It appears to have been made of two pieces soldered together, with one seam slightly flattened. The rivet holes are c4.75mm in diameter.



The blade is 5.45mm thick, stepped in from the base of the socket and tapering over a length of 28.50mm to 3.38mm thick.at which point there is an old break. It is sub lozengiform in cross section, the blade narrowing from c19.90mm to 17.05mm at the break. There is no evidence, in this length of blade, of a curve or serration, other than some wear to both edges. At the point of the break, the flat of blade appears to be curling upwards but this might have occurred at the same time as the break rather than being part of the original design.



The item is 61mm in length overall and weighs 30.77g. It has a green patina.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Awl (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to MEDIEVAL (-1800 to 1400)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Sixpenny Handley, East Dorset, Dorset (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 86.33 mm
Thickness: 5.2 mm
Weight: 8.65 g
Description: A complete copper alloy awl or "graver". The mid section has a square cross section and either end tapers extends into a long tapering point with a circular cross section.This created four lozengiform faces on the mid section.
Date: Bronze Age to later
Dimensions: 86.33 mmx 5.19 mm
Weight: 8.65 g



Although possibly Bronze Age, it is difficult to distiguish tools of this type from later,items of similar function (Peter Reavill pers. comm.)
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Rapier (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1550 to -1150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Shipton-under-Wychwood, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 67.25 mm
Thickness: 4.12 mm
Weight: 12.9 g
Description: A fragment of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy rapier. The fragment comprises the lower part of the blade and the tip. It has a prominent mid rib, straight truncation at break and slightly pitted edges. Middle Bronze Age date, c. 1550-1150 BC. Length 67.25mm; Extra measurements; width - top 11.79mm, 8.79 at the end. Thickness; 3.26 at end, 3.56 at the break.
Notes: Rally Record Yellow 69
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Milton-under-Wychwood, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 113.96 mm
Thickness: 6.41 mm
Weight: 36.8 g
Description: A copper alloy socketed side looped spearhead dating to side looped and socketed spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date (1500 - 1150 BC), later Acton Park and Taunton phases. The spearhead has leaf-shaped blades which have been damaged. Main measurements shown below, other measurements: Width over loops 14.40mm, 7.51 at begiining of blade, Socket 14.51mm in diameter.
Notes: Rally Record Yellow 80
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Waste (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to POST MEDIEVAL (-2100 to 1800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 19.7 mm
Thickness: 7.5 mm
Weight: 5.12 g
Description: A Bronze Age to Post Medieval, 2100 BC - AD 1800, piece of copper alloy possible casting waste, date uncertain.It is squashed but rectangular in cross section at the 'top', measuring 6.1mm X 2.7mm
Notes: Rally Record White 95
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Button (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE ( to )
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Great and Little Chishill, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire ()
Discovery method: Metal detector
Diameter: 22 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Description: A copper-alloy object, possibly a button dating to the Middle to Late Bronze Age. The object is circular in shape and hemispherical in section. The upper surface is decorated with two concentric, ring-shaped cells, which are filled with remnants of a white substance. At the centre, there is a raised spherical knop. The underside of the object is roughly finished, plain, with a slight circumferential rib. A small hemispherical-section loop extends from the underside with a 2mm gap. The object measures 22mm in diameter and a maximum of 8mm in thickness.



A similar example is recorded by the PAS as: WMID-498A82.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Flat Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2150 to -1700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Singleton, Fylde, Lancashire (North West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 65 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 65.35 g
Description: The fragmentary nature of the object makes typological identification difficult. It is probably a cast copper alloy flat axe dating from the Early Bronze Age,  that is c. 2150-1500BC. The axe is narrow with tapering sides and there are no signs of a stop ridge. It has a rounded butt and a flared cutting edge with concave shoulders judging from the slightly tapering sides it is probably an earlier flat axe (that is from c. 2150-1700BC) rather than a later one from the Migdale metalworking tradition. It shares similarities with axes of the Brithdir and Willerby metalwork traditions (Rohl and Needham 1990, 102). No signs of ridges or flanges are present indicating that this is an early flat axe. The length is 65mm, the width is 34mm thickness 10mm and the weight 65.35g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Metal Working Debris (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to MEDIEVAL (-2150 to 1500)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Singleton, Fylde, Lancashire (North West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 105 mm
Thickness: 80 mm
Description: Copper alloy metal working waste possibly ore dating from the Early Bronze Age,  that is c. 2150BC to the medieval period 1500AD. The ore is in an irregular trapezoid and exhibits corrosion products. It is not possible to refine the chronology on appearance alone. The length is 105mm, the width is 90mm thickness 80mm and the weight too heavy for scales.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Milton-under-Wychwood, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 22.68 mm
Thickness: 6.07 mm
Weight: 4.5 g
Description: A fragment of a Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead, consisting only of the tip. The blade is lozeiform in cross section. Width at midpoint 4.05mm and thickness at midpoint 4.87mm. Although the form of the spearhead is hard to dertermine from the fragment, it is of Middle to Late Bronze Age date (c. 1500-800 BC).
Notes: Rally Record Yellow 765
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Blade (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Vernhams Dean, Test Valley, Hampshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 26.34 mm
Thickness: 6.02 mm
Weight: 22.95 g
Description: A fragment of a cast copper alloy Bronze Age blade dating to 1500 - 800 BC. The item consists of a short section of blade, 26.34mm in length, oval in section and 27.98mm in width, tapering over its extant length to 25.71mm.



The blade is 6.02mm thick. At the point of the break, the flat of blade appears to be beginning to curl upwards but this might have occurred at the same time as the break rather than being part of the original design.



It weighs 22.95g. It has a green patina, but part of the surface on one side has been scored, perhaps when excavated, and shows a silvery colour.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Adze (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1150)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Owston and Newbold, Harborough, Leicestershire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 159 g
Description: Bronze age copper alloy palstave adze, 140mm long, 23mm wide and 17mm thick with a weight of 159grams. The object is rectangular in form and cross section and is intact, with slight damage to its butt end and some of its surface.



The butt end is rectangular in form and triangular in cross section, with each face having a rectangular shaped recess with a raised border to contain the handle. The blade, which has an elongated triangular cross section, tapers in width from the point it joins the butt. Overall it is 20mm wide and rectangular in form, then flares out to form a curved cutting edge 32mm wide at its flared tip. On each narrow side, just below the butt recess, is a small triangular recess with a slightly raised border. Further along the blade edge are diagonal ridges/ripples formed at casting. The object is otherwise plain.



These are very rare objects, this example being the sixth on this database, but this is the second from Leicestershire, with one being found in Swithland LEIC-58C955. Other similar examples are from Warwickshire WAW-FLB395 and Wiltshire WILT-DBCAF4 and on this example Brendan O'Connor commented: 'This is a type known to Evans (Ancient bronze implements, p 85, figs 70-1). One of these is illustrated by Rowlands, The production and distribution of metalworking the Middle Bronze Age in southern Britain, pl 34, 1110'. Two further examples have been found in Crosby Ravensworth, Cumbria LANCUM-5CE338 and Gisburn in Lancashire LANCUM-64B7A7.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Axe (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1100 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Owston and Newbold, Harborough, Leicestershire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 42 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 53.08 g
Description: Bronze age copper alloy socketed axe blade fragment, 42mm in length, 27mm wide and 12mm thick with a weight of 53.08grams.



The object is rectangular in form and triangular in cross section with a curved blade forming one long edge. The opposite side is wider and has a slight sub rectangular recess. Its surface is quite worn and abraided, missing most of its surface.
Notes: The object was found near, but not associated with, a Bronze Age Adze LEIC-916183
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Unidentified Object (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -750)
Material: Gold 
Found: Sedgeford, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 14.5 mm
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Weight: 3.4 g
Description: Description: Short length of gold rod, oval-sectioned and S-shaped in profile. The sides exhibit slight longitudinal facets. Both ends have been hammered, cut and torn, leaving a flattened trapezoidal face on each side flanked by two angled facets. 



Dimensions: Length: 14.5mm, width: 5.7mm, maximum thickness: 4.3mm, minimum thickness: 1.3mm, weight: 3.4g. 



Discussion: A number of similar objects have been reported as potential Treasure, individually and as components in hoards, and are recorded on the PAS database. They are most typically described as Bronze Age ingots, such as 2004 T416 (nos. 41, 48 & 49) & CORN-199400 (2005 T110).  Some are suggested to have been fragments of Bronze Age bracelets, including SUSS-23E3A5 (2004 T59) & IOW-BD19F8 (2007 T429). 



A small number of similar objects have also been recorded as unidentified in terms of both object type and date, including SF-2D6E28 (2008 T310) & KENT-C4CEE1 (2010 T439). 



Date: Although a firm date cannot be ascribed, the presence of similar examples as components in hoards is strongly indicative of a Middle to Late Bronze Age date, c. 1500 – 750 BC.
Notes: The object appears to consist of over 10% precious metal and be over 300 years old at the time of finding and as such qualifies as potential Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder after being disclaimed as Treasure
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to IRON AGE (-900 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Rock, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 111.27 mm
Thickness: 40.08 mm
Weight: 324 g
Description: Late Bronze to early Iron Age (c. 900 to 700 BC) socketed axe: The axe has been cast from copper alloy and is complete. The mouth of the socket is almost a square, with rounded corners and convex sides. On two interior edges, opposite each other, there is a slight semi-circular moulded platform. The socket is 92.31mm deep and tapers in depth more than it tapers in width. The rim of the mouth is abraded and undulating because of the abrasion. The socketed mouth moulding on the exterior just has a single sub-triangular sectioned collar.



The sides of the axe have a slender casting seam, with the seam, on one face, curving over the integral loop. The loop s D-shaped with a sub-oval perforation which has traces of the casting seam within it. The faces of the axe are slightly narrower than the sides, causing the sides to be slightly faceted and rounded. The sides taper towards the blade edge



The axe faces appear to be flat and undecorated. There is surface abrasion and the faces have lost some of their patina. The edges of the faces have parallel sides and a splayed cutting edge. The blade tips are rounded and the cutting edge is abraded, very worn and is slightly convex. The cutting edge may have been sharpened extensively as the blade edge is quite thick and does not have the bevel you occasionally see. There is not decoration on the axe.



The axe measures 111.27mm long, 66.05mm wide across the blade tips, 40.08mm thick across the mouth moulding and weighs 324g. The socket mouth interior measurements are 27.82mm long and 27.49mm wide.



Dr Dot Boughton considers the axe to be transitional late Bronze Age to early Iron Age, therefore dated c. 900-700 BC and that it is a late chunky Ewart Park type with a square to sub-rectangular mouth.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Nether Wallop, Test Valley, Hampshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 26.12 mm
Thickness: 2.34 mm
Weight: 3.53 g
Description: 
A very worn and pitted tapering fragment from a copper-alloy possible knife, probably of Bronze Age date. The fragment comprises part of the blade and a thinner tang. The tang has been pierced centrally with a circular hole.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Awl (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to ROMAN (-1000 to 410)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Great Hallingbury, Uttlesford, Essex (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 86 mm
Thickness: 3.35 mm
Weight: 4.77 g
Description: 
A Bronze Age to Roman copper-alloy awl, one end of which is pointed and circular in section. The awl thickens to the opposite end which is flattened and chisel-like. Awls are very difficult to date and a wide range of dates is suggested here.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Blade (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1100)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, Wiltshire (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 24.96 mm
Thickness: 3.86 mm
Weight: 4.14 g
Description: A copper alloy fragment of a Bronze Age blade, dating to c 1500 BC to 1100 BC.



The fragment is very small, with a very flat sub rectangular cross section. It is lozengeform in cross section. All the edges are smooth, even the edge with the break point. The blade narrows from the break to the curved tip.



The height of the fragment is 24.92m, the thickness is 3.86mm the width is 14.81 and it weighs 4.14g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Whaddon, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 43.5 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 9.33 g
Description: An incomplete copper alloy socketed side-looped spearhead of Bronze age date, consisting of only the shaft of the spearhead. The side loops are semi circular in shape, with a circular pierced hole, the loop plate is narrow. One of the side loops is worn and broken. The midrib section is lozenge shaped. The shaft is broken and worn at both ends, it narrows towards the blade end. Similar spearheads on the database have been dated to the Middle to Late Bronze Age, 1500-700 BC. It measures 43.5mm in length, 14.6mm at maximum width, 1.8mm in thickness, and weighs 9.33g.



Similar records on the database are DOR-DC23F5, LIN-A90E8A and WILT-0276AC.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Casting Waste (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -600)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Brightwalton, West Berkshire, West Berkshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Diameter: 38.41 mm
Thickness: 19.62 mm
Description: 
A copper-alloy circular conical casting well with stubs of two runners. This is likely to be of Middle to Late Bronze Age date.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1300)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Waddington, Ribble Valley, Lancashire (North West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 142 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Description: Cast copper alloy palstave dating from the Middle Bronze Age, i.e. c. 1500-1300BC. The axe is broken at the butt but is otherwise complete with casting flashes that have been filed but are still slightly raised on the sides. It is part of the Taunton metalwork assemblage. The axe has two triangular flanges (diamond-shaped from the side) and with its small, worn semi-circular stop-ridge it could be related to the shield-pattern palstaves of the Acton Park metalwork assemblage to which it bears some resemblance. The axe is a heavy implement and complete with the two flanges and a crescent-shaped blade with up-turned corners. It has a dull brown patina. The axe is pitted and corroded therefore it is difficult to tell if there are any sharpening marks.





A similar, less complete palstave was recorded here: LANCUM-F8B182



The length is 142mm, width is of blade is 67mm, thickness is 35mm
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-900 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Ropley, East Hampshire, Hampshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 24.96 mm
Thickness: 4.73 mm
Weight: 7.32 g
Description: 
A fragment of the rim of a Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axe. The fragment has a rounded ridge below the rim and a prominent casting seam.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Anvil (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE ( to )
Material: Copper alloy 
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 51.21 mm
Thickness: 18.76 mm
Weight: 148.75 g
Description: Cast copper alloy anvil of probable Bronze Age date, though possibly later. The item consists of a rectangular body, 41.9mm in length, 25.76mm in width and 18.76mm in thickness. The top edge of the body is faceted, with a ridge in the centre and two faces sloping down on either side. When viewed from the side, the body of the anvil is pentagonal in shape. There is a sub rectangular projection on the bottom edge of the body approx. 28.08mm long and 6.93mm thick. This projection is sub-ovoid in cross section, and tapers to become thinner both in width and in thickness toward the end.





The object has a rough surface and a green patina covering all faces. There is brown staining that could be from a ferrous material on the top and side edges of the body.





Dimensions (entire object): weight: 148.75g, length: 51.21mm, width: 41.9mm, thickness: 18.76mm





For similar items on the database, see HAMP-7C41DB and  KENT-0278AC
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (1200 to 800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Studham, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 19.6 mm
Thickness: 4.9 mm
Weight: 1.44 g
Description: A fragment of a copper alloy spearhead, dating to the middle or late Bronze Age (1200-800BC). Only the tip of the spearhead remains, which is triangular in shape, and lozenge in cross section with a worn midrib. The break is worn. An insufficient amount of the spear remains to prove diagnostic, therefore a specific type cannot be attributed. The tip has a light green patina. The fragment measures 19.6mm in length, 8.2mm in width, and 4.9mm in thickness. It weighs 1.44g.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Neolithic to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -600)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Benson, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 44.88 mm
Thickness: 3.61 mm
Weight: 6.02 g
Description: 
A small tanged Middle to Late Bronze Age copper-alloy chisel with a splayed blade and worn surfaces.

Notes: Cf. SUR-B07EE7, WILT-366F33 and SF-498094
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1100 to -900)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Bray, Windsor and Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 63.63 mm
Thickness: 22.7 mm
Weight: 82 g
Description: 
A Middle Bronze Age copper-alloy palstave butt which has been broken below the stop ridge. The tip of the butt is broken across a flaw in the casting. There is a central rib below the stop ridge but this is only clear on one side. The palstave is pitted and has a dark green patina. There are file marks across the casting seam.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Unidentified Object (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to IRON AGE (-2500 to 43)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Bray, Windsor and Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Thickness: 3.96 mm
Weight: 9.87 g
Description: A copper-alloy annular object; the patina suggests a Bronze Age or Iron Age date.  The object may be a spindle whorl although whorls of this date range do not appear to be known. The object has a dark green patina and is slightly plano-convex in shape. The internal hole measures 7.5mm diameter.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Bracelet (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -700)
Material: Gold 
Found: Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Gardening
Weight: 47.2 g
Description: Late Bronze age gold bracelets, 1000-700BC. The bracelets have an ovoid cross section and are pennanular in form,  flaring out into flat circular terminals, one is slightly larger than the other.



The bracelets were found on seperate occasions in the same garden, the first was found whilst gardening and the second by chickens digging. Once the second was was found they were submitted as 'Treasure Trove'
Subsequent action: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure