Record ID: NMS-FBBBB3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age button, very similar to examples from the Reach Fen hoard and the Kensington hoard, but with an additional (broken) projection (possible casting sprue/jet). Button is circular with a crudely cast loop on the slightly sunken reverse. Edges are worn and there is a small hole (casting error) on the face. The decoration is in the form of a moulded ring-and-dot within a sunken field surrounded by a raised and domed outer edge. diam 20mm, length with broken projection, 23mm. Weighs 5.49g. Examples above datable to Ewart Park and Carps Tongue complexes, 10th/9th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS470
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip fragment of spearhead. Condition quite good though wings a little worn towards the tip. Central raised rib continues to the point. Oldish break at point where socket would have ended and a small nick on the wing just below. Black discolouration at socket end, probably from casting. Weighs 16.21g; Length 58mm; estimated width at break14mm. Plain type, Greenwell and Brewis Class IV.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS174
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete socketed spearhead with leaf-shaped blade and diamond-shaped loops on socket. ?Clay core in situ, extends from mouth of socket through to within 4mm below break (note: similarity of ?clay material with find NMS173). Tip and upper blade missing, old break. Surface pitted, especially on one side. Greenwell & Brewis Class IV.
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C5F953
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?MBA/LBA Fragment of blade of spearhead, both ends broken, mid-rib, bevelled cutting edges, short length of socket containing reduced hard fired clay.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CLEY NEXT THE SEA', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS936
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Socket fragment of MBA side-looped spearhead, side loops broken off. Length 41mm, blade-end socket diam. 6mm, other end socket diam. 13mm. Weighs 8.51g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS548
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MBA/LBA Very abraded tip of spearhead, blade edges not surviving, broken just below end of socket. The metal has laminated along parts of the broken sides.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NARBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS108
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of spearhead, tip and edges very worn, surface pitted. The size and shape suggests this is the tip of a spear and not some larger weapon. It is probably of the Rapier Type, Class IVa.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GIMINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS101
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable spearhead. Diamond-shaped in section. Edges worn. Although the size suggests this is the tip of a spear and not some larger weapon, there is not enough of the object surviving to be certain. If a spearhead fragment, it is probably of the Rapier Type, Class IVa. It is unlikely to be the tip of a dagger or sword, though could just possibly be from a very narrow rapier (Type IV variant Stretham or Cornacarrow).
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS215
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late palstave with broken loop and trident decoration; central rib continues to blade edge. Stop ridge is square and of 'ledge' form. Axe is heavily pitted with small area of surface remaining. Casting seem just visible down one side. Cutting edge and butt end worn and uneven. Axe is long and slim, slightly flaring out then in again towards the cutting edge. Flanges are broken on one side and worn on the other. Blade width 44mm, length 172mm, weighs 451g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WOOD NORTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS195
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting edge fragment of unsocketed axe, probably flanged or palstave (not enough survives to be more specific). Cutting edge smooth and still relatively sharp. Blade width 60mm.
Created on: Monday 19th March 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EAST WALTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS743
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold short length of oval-sectioned bar, hammered broad sides, longitudinal striations on curved short sides, granular breaks. Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TROWSE WITH NEWTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS676
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small (L. 104mm) primary shield pattern palstave, haft area longer than body. Sides straight, flaring suddenly to expanded cutting edge. Cutting edge bevelled from point where flaring begins. Surface badly pitted, cutting edge worn and a little broken. Edges of flanges also worn and broken in places. Casting flashes visible but worn down. Cutting edge width 44mm, weighs 232g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MAUTBY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS69
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neither terminal looks broken - thus object is complete. Ribbon is extremely tangled, but it would seem that intermediate narrowing is roughly central. The 'bar' thus created is currently tightly curved but may not have originally been so. Terminal 2 has flat section leading straight out of ribbon; no.1 is more rectangular and involves a half twist, its faces having sprung from the sides of the ribbon! No real sign of original twisting of ribbon - despite the extensive buckling there seems to be no 'extra-length' along the edges relative to the centre-line. Probably a bracelet, given …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2472
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny Bronze Age awl, square in section at mid point, one half tapering and becoming round to the still sharp point. The other half flattens to form the tang. Worn and ancient groove along length at mid point. Length 37mm, weighs 2.64g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SNETTISHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2470
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cutting end fragment of late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed axehead, virtually all patina missing and cutting edge very worn. The sides of the axe fragment seem to be relatively straight, expanding at the cutting edge. Socket deep. Width of blade 47mm, weighs 53.34g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEACHAM', 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: 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.

Record ID: NMS-6960B5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age cast copper alloy quoit-headed pin comprising a large, disc/ring shaped head and incomplete pin. The pin is sub-circular in section towards the tip. Towards the head end, the pin is flattened, leading into the flattened ring of the head. The head is decorated with a series of incised lines around its inner and outer edge. The design of this pin-head is reminiscent of the sun-disc design common on later bronze age artefacts. c.1200 - 900 BC.
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS1380
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?LBA/ BA incomplete penannular gold ring, made of gold sheet surrounding a core of an unknown material. One end is sealed while the other (broken) shows the section of gold sheet surrounding the core. Weighs 3.22g, diam. 15mm, diam of core 4mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SKEYTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-9072A5
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip of badly worn ?rapier or knife. Lenticular in section and quite thick- c.3-4mm at thickest point. Broad flat mid-rib and bevelled edges. Length to break 51mm, weighs 14.43g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th May 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHOULDHAM THORPE', grid reference and parish protected.