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Record ID: NMS1768
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lovely Bronze Age awl, much of patina missing. From its square-sectioned middle, the awl tapers to a point at one end, quite sharp and beautifully rounded. Tapering to the other end, the awl flattens on 2 opposing sides to a flat end, width 3mm. Length of awl 69mm, weighs 9.05g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1769
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting end fragment of small socketed axehead, patina flaking off. Cutting edge very worn. Width of cutting edge 33mm, weighs 14.04g
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1770
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
LMBA Incomplete Transitional palstave, probable Type Shelf, Trident variation with side loop. Broken beneath stop and trident decoration, where midrib emerges. Flanges considerably worn on one side. Stop is prominent and hafting area rectangular in shape. Much patina lost. Iron staining evident. Palstave itself long and slim (width at stop, flange to flange, c.20mm). Length 83mm, weighs 164.59g. Similar in shape of hafting area and decoration to axe no.877, Schmidt & Burgess 1981.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BAWDESWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1771
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting edge of ??EBA/MBA flanged axehead. In good condition. Sides expand to deeply curved cutting edge with recurved tips. Probably a high flanged axe as surviving body is slim. Break is clearly stepped on one side and stress marks are quite clear. No apparant comparison in Schmidt & Burgess. Stuart Needham comments: ?Short flanged axe, ??smallish low-flanged axe, late EBA. Cutting edge width 57mm, Weighs 108.69.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOKE HOLY CROSS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1987
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of possible socketed sickle or knife. Socket end survives, eliptical in section with one peg hole remaining. Decoration around the mouth in the form of two cast grooves. Casting flashes prevalent at sides. Clay core in situ. SN suggests groove decoration more likely to indicate sickle. Weighs 21.21g. Socket measures 19x26mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENNINGHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2389
Object type: BORER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
On a thick fragment with long projection, probably a naturally formed break. The projection has had some retouch to improve its shape and shows signs of use wear. Not readily datable but most likely to be Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MATTISHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2412
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rapier blade lenticular in section, no original edges survive. Broad midrib, becoming rounded towards point end. Patina shiny brown with some tooling marks. ?joins with NMS2258. Length 68mm, weighs 15.12g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2464
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age Founder's hoard, contemporary with the Ewart Park and Carp's Tongue traditions, and with two fragments of Gundlingen sword hilts (one Type B and one Type C). The hoard comprises 82 pieces in all, including 9 complete gouges, 2 complete socketed axeheads, 8 complete spearheads, fragmentary pieces of all of these plus many fragments of sword (including Carp's Tongue), knives, 2 bag-shaped chapes, part of an axe mould, a fragment of winged axe, 3 casting sprues, 3 lumps of cake and many odd fragments.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2466
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Bronze Age pennanular bracelet of copper alloy, D-shaped in section with surviving end expanded outwards to terminal of diam. 7mm. Width of plano side of bracelet 4mm, thickness 3mm. Weighs 10.29g. Terminal very similar to gold examples from the Beachy Head find (Inventoria Archaeologica GB 40) and section to a copper alloy example from the Heathery Burn hoard (IAGB55). Both these hoards date to late in the British Late Bronze Age, possibly later 8th and 7th centuries`.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2469
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete (approx. just less than half) and small bracelet, D-shaped in section and thickening towards the terminal. Decoration in the form of at least eleven transverse nicks along one side of the thickened terminal, and at least four on the other side. Patina dark brown and shiny but slightly pitted. Estimated diameter, internal: c.50x37mm, weighs 5.65g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2692
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cutting edge of palstave, surface pitted. Body of axe is straight, splaying a little just at the cutting edge. Cutting edge straight with a slight curve. Decoration in the form of a chunky midrib. Probably Transitional or Late type. Weighs 74.33g, cutting edge width 48mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GRESSENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS556
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sword hilt and part of blade from typical Ewart Park sword, broken c.95mm below the ricasso. Blade is pointed oval in section. Shoulders are straight and create a 'diamond' with the ricasso. There are 2 rivet holes, countersunk, in each shoulder, c.5mm diam. All lie very close to the edge of the shoulder and one is open at it ?break. The rounded midrib travels along the length of the sword until it disappears beneath the odd ?repair that is on both sides of the hilt-tang. It does not 'fill out' the shoulder area, which seems to be quite unusual in Ewart swords. 2 tiny rivet holes are …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEOPHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS600
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete socketed axehead, cutting end and most of body. Sides of axe straight, flaring at the cutting edge and slightly widening to the break at the opposite end. Cutting edge undamaged and sharp. There is an indentation in the sides of the axe where they meet the cutting edge, the 'corners' of which curl upwards and outwards from the body. The break is slightly distorted: ?hammered inwards on one face and one of the sockets four 'corners' has been ?hammered outwards. Between this and another 'corner' a curious open break c.12x12mm is probably the result of a weakening in the area …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELSING', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS601
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting end fragment of socketed axehead, both faces have been hammered inwards (cf. Bexley Heath hoard in the British Museum). Sides of axehead are slightly concave, bulging at the break (due to hammering) and flaring gently to a slightly expanded cutting edge. Axe quite worn, though cutting edge seemingly intact (although one end-tip is missing). Break is ancient. Socket is almost triangluar in section and very slim at break (c.70mm 'thick'). Cutting edge width c.45mm, surviving length c.48mm, weighs 101.87g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHIPDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS602
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Primary shield pattern palstave (Schmidt & Burgess 1981, plate 57, nos.775&6). Flanges broken (only one retains an original bit of edge). Two curious lines, deliberately cut, appear crossing on one face of the axe. They both cut along the two lower lines of shield decoration and the patina has not survived showing how deep and purposeful these cuts are. Cutting edge very worn. Butt of axe also worn/ a little broken. Middle Bronze Age, prob. of Acton Park date. Length 154mm, Weighs 327g (to nearest gram).
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ASHWELLTHORPE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS561
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axehead, faceted, socket end. Patina smooth, dark green and shiny though worn off in places. Fragment very worn. Single mouth moulding almost triangular in section. Lip on inside smoothed down. Weighs 16.60g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1187
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Transitional palstave with trident decoration. Slim axehead with narrow waist beneath stop, sides expanding gently to the cutting edge. Prominent stop. Almost identical to finished palstave from same findspot in all aspects except blade shape. Trident decoration in form of raised ribs. Surface condition good with little encrustaion and a brown/ orange patina. Butt-end shows casting imperfection (?burst bubble) and encrusted ?break (?casting imperfection). Length 169mm, cutting edge width c.40mm (not inclusive of casting flash), weighs 498g. Probably date to Penard phase (late MBA/ beg.…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1188
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete ?dagger including ricasso and hilt with 2 rivet holes. Chamfered edges visible beneath corrosion. ?Broken at hilt and across blade. Metal thin (at thickest 1mm) so rapier unlikely. Bent across rivet holes. Hilt extends upwards at right angles from the shoulders with parallel sides, similar in style to sword Type Ballintober, early Penard c.1300-1200BC. Length unbent c.95mm, width at blade break 24mm, weighs 27.16g
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1189
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rapier blade, pointed oval in section. Length 36mm, max width 16mm, min width 14mm. Weighs 7.42g
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'METHWOLD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS549
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?MBA Fragment, less than half, of a lozenge-sectioned ring, ext. diam.75mm. Perhaps from the head, or even from the shaft of a quoit-headed pin.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.