Flint daggerLate Bronze Age flint tool which seems to mimic the shape of bronze daggers that appear in the Early Bronze Age. This example found at Hucclecote Roman Villa, Gloucestershire. (87 x 40mm)
1979.104
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SwordLate Bronze Age copper alloy sword from a hoard of metalwork buried in a wooden box about 1000 BC on Nottingham Hill, Gloucestershire and ploughed up in 1972. (length 633mm)
On loan (Arch1)
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SwordLate Bronze Age copper alloy sword with rivet-holes in the tang for attaching a wooden or bone handle. Part of a hoard of metalwork buried in a wooden box about 1000 BC on Nottingham Hill, Gloucestershire and ploughed up in 1972. (length 628mm)
On loan (Arch2)
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SwordLate Bronze Age copper alloy short sword from a hoard of metalwork buried in a wooden box about 1000 BC on Nottingham Hill, Gloucestershire and ploughed up in 1972. (length 463mm)
On loan (Arch3)
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Bronze axeheadLate Bronze Age palstave with a loop which would help in lashing the axehead to a wooden shaft. Part of a hoard of metalwork buried in a wooden box about 1000 BC on Nottingham Hill, Gloucestershire and ploughed up in 1972. (length 139mm)
On loan (Arch4)
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WhetstoneLate Bronze Age sharpening stone with a hole for attachment to a cord, from a hoard of metalwork buried in a wooden box about 1000 BC on Nottingham Hill, Gloucestershire and ploughed up in 1972. (length 463mm)
On loan (Arch5)
Iron 'currency' barIron Age bar in the shape of a sword once thought to be a unit of exchange, now believed by some to be a rough-out for a sword. From a hoard of 147 found whilst digging a gravel pit in 1860 in Salmonsbury Camp, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. (length 770mm)
1950.173.1
LoomweightIron Age clay weight used on a vertical loom to hold the warp threads taut. From Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. (sides approx. 125mm)
1915.121.1
LoomweightIron Age clay weight used on a vertical loom to hold the warp threads taut. From Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. (sides approx 135mm)
1915.121.3
Weaving combIron Age tool made of antler with incised decoration. This would have been used for beating the weft against the cloth in weaving, from Salmonsbury Camp, Gloucestershire. (137 x 43mm)
1929.18.138
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