dejp3/bronze-age-objects-pas huggingface dataset:
Object: Blade (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: St. Mary's, Bexley, Greater London Authority (London)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 46 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Description: 
Part of two-edged bronze sword or dagger blade.  Broken at both ends and slightly bent.
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Ockley, Mole Valley, Surrey (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 100 mm
Description: Copper alloy angular spearhead with solid socket.  Socket is damaged, with a large hole on one side.
Object: Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2500 to -1900)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Lenham, Maidstone, Kent (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 42.75 mm
Thickness: 3.13 mm
Description: 
Miniature copper alloy axehead. Flat, with rounded blade, straight sides narrowing to rounded butt.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Thurnham, Maidstone, Kent (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 14 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 0.275 g
Description: Fragment of spear tip, with centre rib on both sides.
Notes: Finds record form completed by J Darvill?
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Borden, Swale, Kent (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 37 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 64.8 g
Description: Fragment of palstave axehead.
Notes: Find record form completed by J Darvill?
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Found: Biggin Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority (London)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 25 mm
Description: Broken blade section of socketed axehead.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Unidentified Object (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Found: Thanington Without, Canterbury, Kent (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Weight: 123.79 g
Description: Cast bronze fragment.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-900 to -600)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Corfe Castle, Purbeck, Dorset (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 41.34 mm
Thickness: 5.91 mm
Weight: 22.3 g
Description: Part of rectilinear socket with lipped edge and side loop
Notes: PAL1609
Object: Dirk (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Minterne Magna, West Dorset, Dorset (South West)
Discovery method: Unknown
Length: 42.77 mm
Thickness: 3.05 mm
Weight: 8.61 g
Description: 
Small piece of copper alloy blade. Short tang, narrowed from the blade. The blade has a pointed oval cross section. The form of the tang and the small size of the blade indicate that this object can be classed as a dirk or rapier.

Notes: PAL1737
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Flat Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2150 to -1500)
Found: Eccleshall, Stafford, Staffordshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 69.4 mm
Thickness: 9.3 mm
Weight: 69.87 g
Description: The striking thing about the axe is that it is particularly small, even though it appears to be complete. Also the axe has been over-cleaned therefore any detail such as hammer marks or even a possible flange are not visible. The blades' tip, and cutting edge is slightly asymmetrical , but whether this is due to wear or cleaning is uncertain. The blade tapers towards the butt of the axe. The butt is slightly curved. The surface of the axe is pitted and only has a small element of the patina remaining.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Wall, Lichfield, Staffordshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 39 mm
Description: 
The object is a fragment of a possible spearhead. The tip is missing as is the majority of the lower portion. The socket, if there was one, is not visible. In plan the fragment is a sub-triangular shape with a rounded tip and heavily abraded edges. The lower edge is broken, probably quite recently as the patina does not cover this area. In cross section the spearhead is a sub-lozenge shape, however one edge is very abraded. The original existing edge is also slightly more angled forming a shape edge. The patination is heavy and a dark green colour.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Gouge (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 64.94 mm
Diameter: 21.96 mm
Weight: 73.84 g
Description: A socketed gouge with circular mouth which narrows to a body which is circular in section, and flares widely and flattens to form a deep almost U-shaped scoop at the blade. There does not appear to be any wear and the casting seams although well finished are un-worn. Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Tools And Equipment (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Croxden, East Staffordshire, Staffordshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 19.2 mm
Diameter: 22.18 mm
Description: The object is cylindrical and circular in plan. The walls of the object are slightly more thick on one side. The object has a heavy,thick well developed brown coloured patina which is slightly pitted and incomplete. The exterior walls are very slightly concave in profile. On the exterior surface there is a sub-circular shaped platform which maybe a rivet head. However this is not certain as on the interior surface there is a possible small circular indentation. The interior surface has vertical striations. The patina appears to cover one terminal edge of the object suggesting this was the original edge. The opposite terminal is abraded. There is a small patch of patina on the edge, perhaps suggesting that the object was broken in antiquity or this is the original length.
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Idlicote, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Fieldwalking
Length: 54.58 mm
Thickness: 9.32 mm
Description: 
The remaining portion of the spear head is the point. The opposite terminal is broken, but not recently. This break reveals a very short portion of the socket. The tip of the spear is unsually thick. In cross section the spear is a lozenge shape. There are only traces of a mid green coloured patina.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Sword (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1100 to -850)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 112.88 mm
Thickness: 8.92 mm
Weight: 149 g
Description: A section of sword blade from a Carps Tongue type sword with distinctive groove-defined midrib, the section is slightly bowed, and there are a number of deep gouges in the midrib on both faces. There are a number of patches of light green corrosion product on the section which is otherwise of a dark green/brown patina.
Object: Sword (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-850 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 46.35 mm
Thickness: 5.94 mm
Weight: 30.88 g
Description: A fragment of Ewart Park sword hilt finial intact with the hilt plate surviving down to just below the first rivet aperture, where the handle appears to be starting to bow, and flanges are apparent, the rivet aperture is oval.  There is some damage to the plate end and on both faces, and two distinct ridges running either side of the aperture also on both faces.
Object: Ferrule (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 82.96 mm
Diameter: 16.58 mm
Weight: 44.4 g
Description: 
A ferrule which has broken into two pieces. The small piece has a closed copper-alloy end and retains its clay core. The larger part is a tubular shape which tapers slightly from the open end with a central swelling between marginally concave outlines at either end. There are a pair of peg-holes placed almost at the centre of the swelling.

Notes: The diameter of the ferrule is given for the longer section at it's largest point, the length is also of the largest piece, which tapers to 12.66mm diameter. The smaller piece is 18.61mm x 14.33mm tapering to 12.81mm.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Ingot (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1100 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Description: Five amorphous pieces of metal, four of which may be waste or parts of ingots, one of which more obviously exhibits the attributes of 'cake'.
Notes: the pieces wiegh 47.34g, 202g, 241g, and 284g
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Hockliffe, Central Bedfordshire, Central Bedfordshire (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 96.76 mm
Weight: 295 g
Description: A south-eastern type of socketed axehead, with double mouth moulding. The upper moulding, at the aperture of the socket is heavier and broader than the lower one, the single loop is quite shallow forming not quite a half-circle, and running from the lower moulding.  The crescentic cutting edge is damaged on the loop side, the damage appears to be of some antiquity, both faces of the axe show evidence of corrosion in the form of pitting and small patches of encrusted corrosion products.
Notes: This axe forms part of a hoard comprising narc2581,83,84,85 and 86, there were also 2 or 3 further plain socketed axeheads found which have been retained by a different finder and have not been seen by the finds liaison officer to date.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1100)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Balsall, Solihull, Solihull (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Fieldwalking
Length: 35.13 mm
Thickness: 6.95 mm
Description: 
The object is a portion of a possible spearhead. The object, in plan, is an elongated sub-triangular shape, however the tip is missing, and the lower edge is irregular. The side edges are slightly curved, but heavily abraded and worn. The cross-section is a sub-lozenge shape. The surface of the object is slightly pitted, but has developed a dark green patina.

Notes: This portion of a spearhead is not part of Spearhead WMID4618 found in the same field.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Nether Heyford, South Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Description: A fragment of the crescentic cutting edge of a late Bronze Age socketed axe. The edge is pitted and damaged.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Spearhead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1100)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Balsall, Solihull, Solihull (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Fieldwalking
Length: 39.73 mm
Thickness: 10.92 mm
Description: 
The object is a portion of a possible spearhead. The object, in plan, is an elongated sub-triangular shape, however the tip is missing, and the lower edge is irregular. A circular socket runs through the centre of the object, gradually tapering. The cross-section of the upper edge is a sub-lozenge shape, the mid point has a circular socket with a slender triangular protrusion on each side visible in the cross-section. The protrusions are the blades which are abraded and slender in width. The surface of the object is slightly pitted, but has developed a dark green patina.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 134.46 mm
Thickness: 44.43 mm
Weight: 490 g
Description: A very fine looped and socketed axehead, part of a small hoard.  There is a triple  mouth-moulding, of which the upper moulding is much more prominent. This has a small casting flaw at one point causing a slight step. The lowest moulding gives rise to a half-circular loop on one side of the body. In cross-section the body is sub-rectangular, the aperture is almost square with rounded corners, narrowing downwards to a blunt rectangle. In plan the body runs parallel for most of its length expanding from about two-thirds of the way down to the cutting edge which forms a very shallow curve with outside corners close to 45 degrees. In profile the axehead forms a long narrow triangle, with a casting ridge visible on both sides. On the side with the loop this ridge runs in an uninterrupted seam through the outside of the loop.  There is evidence of mineralised organic woven material on at least one face (when holding the axehead neck upwards loop to the left.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 133.23 mm
Thickness: 44.28 mm
Weight: 500 g
Description: A very fine looped and socketed axehead, part of a small hoard.  There is a triple  mouth-moulding, of which the upper moulding is much more prominent, while the lowest gives rise to a half-circular loop on one side of the body. In cross-section the body is sub-rectangular, the aperture being almost square, narrowing downwards to a blunt end. In plan the body runs parallel for most of its length expanding from about two-thirds of the way down to the cutting edge which forms a very shallow curve with outside corners close to 45 degrees. In profile the axehead forms a long narrow triangle, with a casting ridge visible on both side. On face with the loop this ridge runs in an uninterrupted seam through the outside of the loop.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 132.86 mm
Thickness: 44.25 mm
Weight: 500 g
Description: A very fine looped and socketed axehead, part of a small hoard.  There is a triple  mouth-moulding, of which the upper moulding is much more prominent, while the lowest gives rise to a half-circular loop on one side of the body. In cross-section the body is sub-rectangular, the aperture being almost square, narrowing downwards to a blunt end. In plan the body runs parallel for most of its length expanding from about two-thirds of the way down to the cutting edge which forms a very shallow curve which is slightly more crescentic than the other three similar axeheads in this hoard. In profile the axehead forms a long narrow triangle, with a casting ridge visible on both sides. On the face with the loop this ridge runs in an uninterrupted seam through the outside of the loop.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Material:  Wood
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 134.66 mm
Thickness: 11.81 mm
Weight: 46.37 g
Description: An almost complete socketed knife with some corrosion to the blade which is sub-triangular in plan, the sides which are badly corroded taper evenly towards the tip. The tip is broken of and missing a small fragment, therefore it is not possible to be certain of its original shape. The blade has a slightly raised flattened midrib section on both faces,  with broad edge bevels. The junction between the socket and the blade is straight with a simple 'step' from socket to blade.  The socket is quite 'waisted' in plan, and a waisted oval in cross-section, the junction of the socket and blade is wider than the mouth, which has no obvious mouth-moulding, the edge of the mouth is slightly corroded and there is a small section missing.  There is a circular aperture, presumably the peg hole, on both faces of the socket. The mouth is oval, and the socket sub-triangular in section.  There is some wood remaining in the socket.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 137.02 mm
Thickness: 43.81 mm
Weight: 550 g
Description: A very fine looped and socketed axehead, part of a small hoard.  There is a triple  mouth-moulding, of which the upper moulding is much more prominent, while the lowest gives rise to a half-circular loop on one side of the body. In cross-section the body is sub-rectangular, the aperture being almost square, narrowing downwards to a blunt end. In plan the body runs parallel for most of its length expanding from about two-thirds of the way down to the cutting edge which forms a very shallow curve with outside corners close to 45 degrees. In profile the axehead forms a long narrow triangle, with a casting seam visible on both sides. On the side with the loop this seam runs in an uninterrupted seam through the outside of the loop.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Material:  Textile
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 132.17 mm
Thickness: 15.56 mm
Weight: 52.33 g
Description: An almost complete socketed knife with some corrosion to the blade which is almost straight sided to approximately two-thirds of the way down where the sides curve inwards to the tip which is corroded too much to be certain of its original shape. One face of the blade has a large section of mineralised organic woven material attached.  The blade has no obvious midrib of facets, there is a single moulded ridge at the junction between the socket and the blade.  The socket is slightly 'waisted' in plan, with a single shallow mouth-moulding.  There is a circular aperture, presumably the peg hole, on one face and a corroded hole on the other, presumably at the point of the aperture on that side. The mouth is oval, the socket is a waisted oval in cross-section, and sub-triangular in profile.
Notes: Width is given at widest point, thickness is at socket.
 

 Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Flanged Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Catton, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 121.18 mm
Thickness: 14.95 mm
Description: The butt of the axe tapers to a blunt edge in its depth. This edge is slightly abraded and pitted. There is a flange on either side of the axe which leads to the blade. The flanges appear to have been hammered, the sides of the flanges have a series of very shallow indentations. The septum is only slightly pitted. At the mid point, across the septum there are two shallow grooves, thereby forming a slight ridge between which is the bevel/stop. This occurs on both faces of the septum. The grooves are shallow and feel like ripples. The blade expands from the septum. The junction of the septum and blade has a slightly uneven, ripples surface on both faces, this does not appear to be intentional. On one surface of the blade there has been recent damage, a scrape, perhaps by the plough has occurred revealing the metal. The blade tips are slightly rounded and abraded. The blade cutting edge is abraded and slightly corroded, therefore the original edge is lost. The axe has a well developed brown/green coloured patina.
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Easton Maudit, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 126.17 mm
Thickness: 30.8 mm
Description: An incomplete and badly corroded palstave.  The cutting edge badly damaged but in plan it appears to have originally been crescentic, the sides of the head taper inwards to a 'waist' at approximately one third up the head from which point on they are almost parallel flaring only slightly  to the flanges. The depression into the handle forms a rectangular shape. Both faces of the head are very corroded but have the suggestion of ribbed moulded decoration. The lip at the junction between the handle and the head is quite straight.  In profile, the head and cutting edge form a narrow triangular shape, expanding to at the handle end into a larger triangle, the palstave is broken off at the end furthest away from the cutting edge.  There is a slight median ridge down both of the sides of the palstave when viewed in profile., the flanges are not high and do not curve inwards.  In cross-section the head is trapezoidal.  There is a single loop which runs from the highest point of the flange to about one tenth of the way down the head.
Notes: the length is given between cutting edge and junction lip of handle, the width at cutting edge and the thickness at the widest part of the flanges.
Object: Unidentified Object (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 59.83 mm
Thickness: 26.8 mm
Weight: 150 g
Description: A sub-rectangular object which has a circular inner cross-section, and is open at one of the short ends, the other end is almost square in plan.  The open end is damaged and incomplete.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Material:  Textile
Found: Sandown, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight (South East)
Discovery method: Other chance find
Length: 99.44 mm
Thickness: 36.05 mm
Weight: 200 g
Description: A small but very fine looped and socketed axehead, part of a small hoard.  There is a single very shallow mouth-moulding, with unfinished 'lip'.  The loop is a half oval in shape and starts from approximately 9.8mm down the casting seam on one side of the body. In cross-section the body is sub-rectangular, the aperture being almost square, narrowing downwards to a blunt narrow oval. In plan the body tapers very slightly for about two-thirds of its length then expanding to the cutting edge which forms a very shallow crescent. In profile the axehead forms a long narrow triangle, with a casting seam visible on both sides. On the side with the loop this ridge runs in an uninterrupted seam through the outside of the loop, and is poorly finished, on the other side the seam is slightly off centre and is also poorly finished.  At the bottom of the loop at the junction with the body, and just below the loop on the side of the axehead are two patches of woven material which appear to have a herringbone pattern.
Notes: Part of a hoard of eleven implements.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Easton Maudit, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 71.12 mm
Thickness: 33.26 mm
Weight: 290 g
Description: An incomplete and badly corroded palstave.  In plan the cutting edge is crescentic, either end of the crescent coming to an almost upturned point, the sides of the head are almost parallel from the cutting edge upwards, narrowing only slightly to the flanges. There is a U shaped depression as the flanges begin to expand, and on one face the suggestion of trident shaped moulded decoration, however, both faces are badly corroded and the decoration is very faint., the lip at the junction between the handle and the head is a shallow U-shape.  In profile, the head and cutting edge form a narrow tall V-shape, expanding to form an oval, the palstave is broken off at the point where the sides of the oval are curving towards a point at the end furthest away from the cutting edge.  There is a slight median ridge down both of the sides of the palstave when viewed in profile., the flanges are very high and do not curve inwards.  In cross-section the head is trapezoidal.  There is no loop or obvious loop stump.
Notes: the length is given between cutting edge and junction lip of handle, the width at cutting edge and the thickness at the widest part of the flanges.
Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Pitsford, Daventry, Northamptonshire (East Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 25.37 mm
Diameter: 22.62 mm
Weight: 19.86 g
Description: A possible fragment of copper-alloy spear head, the object is a half cylinder in shape, open at both ends, although it is not clear if the ends have been deliberately cut or were broken in antiquity and the edges have smoothed through time. On the outside of the cylinder is an integrally cast shallow sub-triangular section which may be the base of the blade wing.
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 61.3 mm
Thickness: 4.3 mm
Description: miniature?biconcave shaped sides and section,shallowly convexly curved ends, dark brown patina, solid, slight ovoid cast depression on each of 2 faces, centre
Notes: taken in at Finds day, Beverley Art Gallery 04/11/00
Object: Chisel (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -2000)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Kempston, Bedford, Bedford (Eastern)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 43.47 mm
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Weight: 11.23 g
Description: An early form of miniature chisel/axe, similar in form to early Bronze Age flat axes, with facets one the sides and cutting edge, and no central stop, some reworking is evident along one side on the obverse face, which has very slight/shallow flanges. The cutting edge has been damaged but it is not clear if the damage is all recent or if some occurred in antiquity.  The cutting edge is slightly crescentic, the sides curve inward gently before flaring out slightly again at the butt end which is badly damaged.
Notes: The form is very similar to one recorded as discovered in Aldershot.  The width above is given at the cutting end, the width at the narrowest part is 12.94mm
Object: Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: , York, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 70.1 mm
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Description: An incomplete late Bronze Age faceted socketed axehead, now in two fragments, around 50% of the butt end remains. A soil matrix is intact inside the socket. The larger fragment is truncated irregularly below the loop. The cutting edge is blunt. Some pitting evident which is probably corrosion. Very worn, rounded edges. Recently plough damaged, scoring on both sides. Mid-light green surface. The smaller fragment is browner than the large fragment. There is one area of medium brown corrosion product on the outside edge. Small patches active bronze disease on the internal surface.
Notes: Refer to scanned image 2172a.bmp in the York archive.
Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Flanged Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-2500 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Thirsk, Hambleton, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 147.1 mm
Thickness: 10.1 mm
Description: long, with hemispherical shaped head end, narrow tapered butt, large flanges either side, cutting edge still rel sharp, pocked surafce, dark tan colour, treated-gunmetal, some vivid bronze disease and active copper oxide corrosion
Object: Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: , Ryedale, North Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 73.23 mm
Diameter: 5.16 mm
Thickness: 32.7 mm
Description: 
Fragment of a late Bronze Age looped socketed axe. Patchy blue-green active corrosion/tan brown surface. Bronze showing through on thinner areas, appears abraded. Casting spurs pronounced on external and internal seams. Wear difficult to ascertain.

Subsequent action: Returned to finder
Object: Knife (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-900 to -700)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Bremhill, Wiltshire, Wiltshire (South West)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 119.6 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 40.7 g
Description: 
Late Bronze Age socketed knife of Thorndon type in good condition. The blade is leaf-shaped, resembling in miniature swords of the period. The blade edge is bevelled on both sides with a slightly concave profile. The socket is oval in section and on the exterior expands at both ends, while the interior is parallel sided. The blade and socket, characteristically for the type, meet at a straight line. There is a circular attachment rivet midway along the socket, the rivet is still in place on one face. Near the rim beneath the handle is a smaller hole, possibly a secondary attempt to secure the handle. On the other face an area of bronze has torn away, the top of the tear corresponds with the secondary hole on the other face and it is a possibility that this tear occurred during the repair. The knife has a brown patination with some of the red-brown soil still adhering to it. There are no visible sharpening striations along the blade.

Notes: Thorndon-type socketed knives were first classified by Hodges (1956) and can be broadly dated to the Ewart Park metalworking phase (c.900-800 BC) (Needham et al. 1997). They are often found in Late Bronze Age hoards associated with a variety of material and have a wide distribution across Britain.
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Object: Awl (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1150 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Nether Wallop, Test Valley, Hampshire (South East)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 49 mm
Diameter: 4 mm
Weight: 3.25 g
Description: Cast copper alloy awl or tracer awl.  The awl section is 28mm in length and broadly circular in section with a diameter of 4mm.  The other section is 21mm in length with a flattened end which may be a tracer.  This tracer end is rectangular in section and the shaft becomes square in section close to the junction with the awl section which is wider.  The tracer end is slightly bent.  Even mid-green patina.
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Object: Axe (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Penllyn, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 19.1 mm
Thickness: 8.3 mm
Weight: 24.7 g
Description: 
Blade end fragment of a Bronze Age axe; the fragment is worn with none of the original surface surviving. The broken end does not show any evidence of a socket. The surviving blade edge is gently curved. The blade width is slender, with the sides gently expanding to the blade. The slender dimensions of the fragment suggests the piece may have come from a late palstave or socketed axe, although some of the width may have been lost through erosion.

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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1020 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Rudry, Caerphilly, Caerphilly (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 68.7 mm
Thickness: 19.9 mm
Weight: 87 g
Description: Incomplete ribbed socketed axe of Ewart Park metalworking tradition, dated to 1020-800BC. The axe has lost the mouth, one of the sides and an area of one face. The remainder of the damaged face has been crushed inwards, although it is now difficult to determine if this damage occurred in antiquity. The more complete face demonstrates the remains of two of the three parallel ribs. The mouth and collar of the axe are missing. The loop is also absent, but the remnants of the lower attachment point are evident on the more complete side. The axe would have had an hexagonal body profile, probably with a slightly expanded blade. The casting seam is visible along one side, and appears to have been finished by hammering. The remains of the socket suggest a rounded rectangular profile. The original surface of the axe has been lost, apart from possible small patches of brown-red patination on the incomplete face and in the socket. The surface damage and fragmentary state of the axe make it difficult to assertion the axe type. The ribs and hexagonal body profile suggest a South Wales (or Stogursey) type, of a relatively small example. However, the absence of the mouth and collar moulding make it impossible to be certain.
Notes: Socketed axes of a variety of types are prolific in south east Wales as both single and hoarded objects. South Wales axes are the most common, with over 120 examples now known, and have often suffered indicators of deliberate damage such as that seen on the present example. Single, damaged socketed axes are known nearby at Langstone (NMGW162) and Ponthir (PUBLIC-9BD5E6). Examples of both complete and damaged socketed axes in hoards within the National Collection of Wales include St.Mellons, Cardiff (Stanton 1984), Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan (Savory 1980, no.281) and Penwyllt, Ystradgynlais, Powys (Savory 1980, no.284).

Socketed axes of a variety of forms belong to the Ewart Park phase of the British Late Bronze Age (Needham 1981, 32-37). Recently, this phase has been radiocarbon dated to 1020-800BC cal (Needham et al. 1997; Needham 1996).
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Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1400 to -1200)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Albrighton, Shropshire, Shropshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 158 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Description: Cast copper alloy Shield pattern palstave, probably early Middle Bronze Age. Complete head with no remnants of haft visible. Particularly low level stop ridge to each side of head. Condition good, with only partial damage to sides of flanges and cutting edge.
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Object: Palstave (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1500 to -1000)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Michaelstone-y-Fedw, Newport, Newport (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 114.7 mm
Thickness: 28.2 mm
Weight: 306.8 g
Description: Palstave dating to the Later Middle Bronze Age, probably dating between 1500 - 1000BC (Needham et al 1997). This palstave type is familiarly known as the 'Transitional Palstave', (Smith 1959; Schmidt & Burgess 1981) and is best paralleled in welsh material with the Cammaes hoard and corresponding metalworking tradition. Nortover (forthcoming) has suggested that Cemmaes metalworking is contemporary with the Taunton phase (c.1600-1200BC; Needham et al 1997) in England; although Taunton palstaves are generally of the 'Low-flanged' type, with transitional palstaves generally being of the Penard metalworking stage (c.1400-1000; ibid.) and possibly continuing into the Wilburton metalworking stage (c.1300-1000; ibid.). The palstave has a short butt, which has been damaged in antiquity on one side. This break has occurred through an air bubble in the bronze. The loop is missing, and was placed relatively far back, beginning immediately after the stop. Casting flaws are further evidenced with a hole at the stop on one side. The axe has diverging sides resulting in an expanded crescentic blade edge. The blade has a bevelled edge which begins as the sides significantly diverge. The moulds may have been slightly miss-aligned, resulting in a change of direction in the profile in the sides of the axe. The casting seem on the looped side has not been placed central to the sides. The loss of much of the surface of the axe has made it difficult to decipher the trident design on the faces, the split angular triangular motif against the stop can be made out, but the central rib, can no longer be seen.
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Object: Spear (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1600 to -1450)
Material: Copper alloy Wood
Found: Sandfields West, Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 101.6 mm
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 38.3 g
Description: 
Copper alloy socketed side-looped spearhead.



Incomplete short socketed spearhead with a plain kite-shaped blade and central rib defined by the tapering socket. Only one of the side loops survive, and is comparatively shallow. Approximately half of the socket is missing, probably because of erosion. The base of the socket is also missing, but is unlikely to have been very much lower. Only small areas of the original surface survive and the blade edge has also been eroded. The socket retains the remnants of the wooden shaft, and further shaft fragments were displaced when the spear dried subsequent to recovery.

Notes: The spearhead can be paralleled with a number of examples recovered from Wales and elsewhere, and is similar to Savory (1980) Nos 227-230. This spearhead has been classified by Davis (2012, 56, No.142) within his 4A (Plain Kite Blade, Long) sub-class. Davis (2012, 55-56) lists 21 examples of this sub-class (incl. the present example), though the Sandfields example is one of only two examples that has side loops close to the base of the socket; the other is from Craigielee, Perth (Davis 2012, No.138). Group 4, as a whole, lacks homogeneity in terms of overall form, and the distribution in Britain is typically more northern, with five findspots known from Scotland (Davis 2012, 58). The type may have some Irish influence (ibid.). The Sandfields spearhead is the only securely provenanced Group 4 spearhead from Wales, though examples are also known from Cheshire and Herefordshire (Davis 2012, Nos.136, 145). Davis (2012, 56) has dated this group to the Acton Park phase in the early stages of the Middle Bronze Age (c.1600-1450 BC).
Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Wentlooge, Newport, Newport (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 24.8 mm
Thickness: 12.5 mm
Weight: 46.3 g
Description: Blade fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe probably of Ewart Park metalwork (c. 1000 - 800BC), but of indiscernible type. The fragment was broken in antiquity at the bottom of the socket. There are no ribs present on either face, although little of the face is represented on the fragment. The blade edge is slightly recurved. The casting flashes are visible down both sides and have been neatly finished, probably by hammering. Axe sharpening striations are visible beneath the patination running along the blade on both faces. The fragment is in relatively good condition, with an area of the blade edge surviving and a brown to dark brown patina covering the fragment.
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Found: Pattingham and Patshull, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire (West Midlands)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 65 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 73.49 g
Description: Part of a bronze socketed axe head, probably Late Bronze Age. Only end part of blade remaining, with evidence of socket to inner surfaces.
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Object: Axe (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  ( to )
Material: Copper alloy 
Found: Rudbaxton, Pembrokeshire, Pembrokeshire (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 32 mm
Thickness: 9.8 mm
Weight: 43.9 g
Description: This is a blade end fragment of an indeterminate Middle or Late Bronze Age axe. The broken section has eroded, making it difficult to determine if the axe has fractured at the bottom of the socket of a socketed axe of Late Bronze Age type, or through a solid palstave of the Middle to Late Bronze age. The axe fragment has the remnants of a single rib running down one of the faces. The other face is irregular with large pitting, which may have been a feature of the axe, rather than a corrosion effect. The blade edge has been lost through corrosion but was originally expanded. The axe would have been of slender form, perhaps suggesting a ribbed palstave rather than a socketed axe.
  The original surface of the axe has a light to mid brown patina, but has areas of active green corrosion through the surface.
  
  
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Welsh St. Donats, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 71.3 mm
Thickness: 54 mm
Weight: 134.5 g
Description: Small three ribbed axe of squat form and virtually complete.  Thin and prominent outsplayed mouth moulding, with loop extending from underside of moulding.  Three slightly divergent longitudinal ribs extend down faces of axe.  External and internal mouth shape ovoid.  Evidence for four runners on mouth top:  three projecting and one scar.  Base of socket is evenly shaped.  Axe has ovoid shaped body with curved side edges.  Sides of axe are slightly divergent but straight, with slight splaying and recurving of blade edges.  Casting flashes down each side have been roughly trimmed.  One face is slightly dented with cracks in the wall visible down one side of one rib and secondly across the face but merging with the first.  Half of the blade edge is missing through damage.  Striations parallel to the blade edge  on the blade bevel, together with a curved blade edge profile indicate that it was sharpened before deposition.  Traces of possible black patination are visible adjacent to the loop and below the mouth moulding.  Patina largely green with green carbonate encrustations.  
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Found: Welsh St. Donats, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 99.4 mm
Thickness: 59 mm
Weight: 295.8 g
Description: Complete and slender three-ribbed late Bronze Age socketed axe with outsplayed mouth moulding.  The loop extends from beneath the moulding. Three near parallel but slightly bending longitudinal ribs extend from the underside of the mouth moulding down the blade faces.  Both external and internal socket mouth shapes are sub-rectangular.  Excess metal protrudes around the whole internal edge of the mouth, illustrating the absence of a four runner casting technology.  The sides of this axe are slightly divergent and concave, however there is minimal widening at the blade end and no recurving of the blade edge.  The axe is sub-rectangular in section with slight curvature of the edges.  Prominent casting flashes indicate the lack of axe preparation.  One blade surface is defined by a linear groove, beyind which is a bluntand unprepared cutting edge.  This appears to have been created by the mismatching of mould pieces during casting, since the opposite blade surface bevels evenly to the cutting edge.  The blade edge is flat rather than curved, also suggesting its lack of preparation for use.  Further evidence mould mismatching is provided by an assymetric casting flash down the loop of the axe. No black patination visible.  Green patina with green carbonate encrustations.
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to BRONZE AGE (-1000 to -800)
Found: Welsh St. Donats, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 121.8 mm
Thickness: 78 mm
Weight: 430.4 g
Description: Large, complete and flaring Late Bronze Age axe with three ribs.  The axe has a poorly shaped and heavy double mouth moulding and a loop extends from its underside.  Three slightly divergent longitudinal ribs extend from mouth moulding on each face, although they are only porrly defined on one face.  External mouth shape is irregular subrectangular to ovoid, whilst the internal shape is square.  Evidence of four runners on mouth top: two projecting and two negative scars (the latter impossible to measure accurately).  The sides of the axe are markedly concave and divergent, giving the axe a flared character with rewidening and recurving of the sides towards the blade surface. The axe has a rectangular section with a blocky shape and angled sides.  Prominent casting flashes only coarsely trimmed.  Minor casting flaw beneath the mouth moulding as witnessed by a small hole in the wall of the axe (1.5mm diameter).  Single dent towards the blade end on one surface, created in antiquity by a blunt impact.  Straiations parallel to blade edge indiacte sharpening as does marked convexity of blade edge.  Nicks in blade edge may be effect of corrosion rather than evidence of use wear.  Green and grey patination with some green carbonate encrustation.  No black patination visible.
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Found: Welsh St. Donats, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 117.9 mm
Thickness: 74 mm
Weight: 366.6 g
Description: Slender, complete and flaring socketed axe with three ribs and a loop extending from the underside of a thin outsplayed mouth moulding.  Three pronounced longitudinal ribs extend from the mouth moulding on each face. On one face they bulge slightly along the mid-length, whilst on the other they bend slightly in parallel at the blade end.  External and internal mouth shape is sub-rectangular.  Evidence of only two runner scars on the mouth suggests absence of a four runner casting technology.  In side view, the mouth of one mould piece is higher than the other, giving an angled and irregular mouth surface.  One mould piece is markedly wider and more bulbous at the mouth end than the other, when viewed from the side.  The casting flashes protrude and have only been coarsely trimmed. The axe is rectangular in section with slightly curved side edges.  The sides are divergent and concave in shape, flaring outwards at the blade end, but with no recurving of blade edge visible.  The blade edge is blunt and virtually flat, indicating a lack of preparation for use.  Black encrustation on blade end surfaces.  Rest of axe has green patination overlying a greyish surface with small area of blue colouration on an upper surface between the ribs.
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Object: Socketed Axehead (Bronze Age)
Period: Bronze Age to  (-1000 to -800)
Found: Welsh St. Donats, the Vale of Glamorgan, the Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
Discovery method: Metal detector
Length: 105.8 mm
Thickness: 68 mm
Weight: 369.3 g
Description: Complete three ribbed socketed axe with a high placed loop extending from the underside of a thin outsplayed mouth moulding.  Three convergent longitudinal ribs extend from mouth moulding on each face.  Exterior mouth shape is oval, whilst the interior is rectangular.  Four runner bases project 1.5-2.5mm above the mouth top.  The body of the axe is slightly hexagonal in shape with angular side edges.  Base of socket is evenly shaped.  Sides of axe are slightly divergent but straight, with no recurving at the blade edges.  The casting flashes remain prominent, but may have been coarsely trimmed, although excess within the loop-hole has not been trimmed.  The blade edge is nearly flat in side profile, with no striations on the blade bevel visible.  Slight nicks in the blade edge are probably the result of corrosion.  Black encrustation visible on the blade end surfaces.  Rest of the axe has green patination overlying a greyish surface with occasional carbonate encrustations.
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