Record ID: NMS-4CEB2B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of penannular copper alloy middle Bronze Age spiral twisted torc. The fragment is 68.5mm long, 54mm of which is comprised of a twisted spiral with curved peaks (5.8mm thick) and troughs (4.5mm thick), and the remainder is narrowed to a circular section (3.2mm in diameter). The fragment has a dark green to black patina with old breaks at either end. Based on the curvature of this fragment the estimated original diameter of the whole torc would be approximately 220mm. The find is paralleled by examples found in the 'Near Lewes' hoard in 2011 cf. SUSS-C5D042 which date to the mi…
Created on: Sunday 15th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4436A4
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper-alloy miniature developed flat axe dating to the late Early/early Middle Bronze Age. The axe has a narrow butt with moderately concave sides. Initially the sides are only slightly flaring but in the last 20% of its length the width increases by another 50% to form the curved cutting edge. In profile, the axe is lenticular with the maximum thickness at the centre of its length. Dimensions: 34.4mm in length, 12.0mm in max.width, 4.2mm in max.thickness and weighs 4.97g. The axe appears to be modelled on the Class 3 non-flanged axe types of Period 2 circa 2100-1900 B…
Created on: Friday 14th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3E0EEC
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible ferrule, bead or ring from the late Bronze Age. The ring was found relatively close to a Bronze Age chisel of Ewart Park/Llyn Fawr date (NMS-523D79) and matches it very closely in colouration and patina. The object is 9.5mm long and annular in cross section with a 17mm outside diameter. One end is flat but the other is curved on its outside edge diameter and slightly lipped internally. The lipping is coincident with a flattened cross section suggesting it has been impacted at these points. With this exception the object has a smooth moulded surface suggesting it …
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-91FB76
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy spiral-twisted torc dating to the Taunton and Penard 'Ornament Horizon' metalwork phases of the Middle Bronze Age, circa 1400-1150 BC. The present 73mm diameter annular shape is formed from circular-section bronze rod which has been twisted into a spiral. The ends slightly overlap and both have been broken in antiquity. On one of the broken ends the twist and cross-section begins to taper-off suggesting that the break is close to a missing hooked-end terminal. The other end is an abrupt break across full twist and cross-section. The evidence strongly suggests t…
Created on: Saturday 7th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7BD914
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy late Bronze Age socketed axehead. The fragment comprises the transversely-fractured cutting edge of the blade with just enough of the length surviving to indicate its socketed nature and betray the slightly flaring exterior profile towards the end of the blade. The inside of the socket is bright green with bronze disease whilst the exterior has surviving dark brown patina with underlying green corrosion where the patination has eroded. Circa 1300-700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 27th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7D35CC
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy late Bronze Age socketed hammer head. The socketed end has a single raised collar with broadly square-shaped (externally 23.7mm x 23.3mm) socket and tapers slightly to a more rectangular shaped head (17.7mm x 21.7mm) which has been slightly upset through use. The overall length of the head is 64 mm with a socket depth of approximately 44 mm providing a 20 mm long solid bronze striking section. Both casting seams have been removed and only a scant trace on one side is evident. The dark green to brown patina is largely complete save small eroded areas around the mouth of th…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7DE817
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy fragment of an unidentified object. The form is sub-triangular in cross-section and in plan. One side of the triangular cross-section curves inwards and the other two are slightly convex creating a broadly central arris along its length. There is a break at the wider end that to one side curves into a slight flange, with another break at the narrow apex end. The shape is reminiscent of Medieval to Post Medieval cooking vessel handles or legs but the light green matt patina is more suggestive of Bronze Age artefacts, albeit the precise nature of the object rema…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C792E9
Object type: WINGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of late Middle to Early late Bronze Age winged axehead with side loop. Only the central section survives with a loop on the underside of the flanged body and old brittle fractures at either end where the butt end and majority of the remarkably thin axe blade have broken away. The wings are long with the ends turning sharply inwards towards each other to secure the original haft. No stop ridges. Dark brown water patina with casting seams largely removed. Penard to Ewart park metalwork phases circa 1300-800 BC. A similar and more complete axe can be seen at BH-BE3C94 on the Por…
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AC6F22
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy awl or chisel possibly of Bronze Age date. The object is 72mm long and circular in cross-section. It tapers over its length from 11mm in diameter at the striking end to 6mm at the working end. The last 7mm is bevelled from opposite sides to form a chisel point. The upper striking end of the tool is slightly upset, presumably from hammering. According to the PAS website (https://finds.org.uk/guides/bronzeage/objects/awl) awls are difficult to date but most copper-alloy examples are probably from the Late Bronze Age. They can have circular or square cross sections …
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-71B5E0
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper-alloy Bronze Age socketed spearhead. The handle socket is entirely missing from an old brittle-break at the point where it would have originally joined the blade. The pronounced midrib continues for the full length of the blade with an internally round socket extending just over halfway towards the tip. Externally the midrib contours smoothly to form the wings of the spearhead blade, the profile of which has a sub-lozengiform shape, reaching a maximum width at the approximate halfway point. The profile of the blade wings from the socket to the widest point has a s…
Created on: Monday 29th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AA275B
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Haft-end fragment of late Bronze Age socketed Axehead. Full width mouth fragment comprising nearly half of the circumference. Single mouth moulding. Insufficient survives for further classification. Circa 1000-800 BC. Dimensions; 32mm at widest point, 27mm long overall.
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-83DDD4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age end-scraper, struck on an oval shaped tertiary flake. One facet on the dorsal face has re-patinated and shows evidence of old scuffing damage. The striking platform survives with bulbar scar and bulb of percussion tailing in conchoidal ripples to the distal end of the flint. The rounded distal end has coarse scalar semi-abrupt retouch, as does a small area of one mesal edge, although the more acute form of the latter suggest this was probably done to shape the flint rather than create a working edge. Circa 3000-1500 BC.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Sunday 1st December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-E126C2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age body sherd (now fractured in two) from a Beaker culture pot. The sherd is too small to establish the exact form of the original vessel. The exterior surface is an oxidised dull pale-orange colour with an almost black core. There is surface decoration consisting of two rows (or possibly columns), each of 180 degree laterally-opposed comb-impressed crescents. The material is very friable with a biscuit-like consistency. Weight 11.57g. Circa 2300-1700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2016
Last updated: Saturday 3rd September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-523D79
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper Alloy Late Bronze Age socketed gouge. The gouge has a circular mouth (17mm outside diameter) and single raised flanged collar at the opening. In plan it tapers over the majority of its 84.5mm length but flares out in the final 15mm to form a C-shaped cross-section cutting edge. The cutting edge extends back in a V-shaped flute to restore the full circular section around 12mm short of the mouth of the gouge. Casting seams are evident on either side of the gouge which are set in the horizontal plane when the flute is placed uppermost. The socket contains extensive remains of the …
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-F4E336
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Short copper alloy awl of uncertain date. Square in cross-section throughout its length it tapers from its greatest thickness at the mid-point, to a moderately sharp point at one end, and to a chisel edge at the other. The object may have had a handle with one end functioning as the tang, but the consistent dark brown patina and hand-worn appearance probably suggest otherwise. Additionally, there is no evidence of hammering at either end; and no stop, and therefore the object was probably intended for light hand-work. Such objects are found in Bronze Age hoards- see WAW-C63EB7, but si…
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F76975
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded and worn copper alloy axehead-shaped object. Sub-triangular in plan with the corners of the widest end radiused to a curve, with the opposite end terminating in a sharp point. The mid-section of the sides are symmetrically chamfered. Two thirds of the way towards the pointed end, on one face only, is a blind circular hole. It is unclear if this is by design or a defect from the casting process. The form is very reminiscent of a miniature un-hafted axehead coping an early Bronze Age flat axe. However, the sharp point, chamfered sides and rounded coroners at the blade end are a…
Created on: Friday 18th February 2022
Last updated: Sunday 27th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-833D15
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A group of four Bronze Age copper-alloy tool fragments all found within a small area over a period of several months. Two additional amorphous copper-alloy fragments were also found in the immediate vicinity. Total weight 125g. 1. Small butt-end fragment of a flanged palstave. Oblique brittle fracture, pitted dark brown patination with green around eroded edges. Extant length 35mm, width 18mm, weight 35g. 2. Triangular tip fragment of a spearhead. Sharp midrib giving a star-like cross section. Transverse brittle fracture. Dark brown patination. Length 41mm, widt…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-39003A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast Late Bronze Age socketed tool, most probably an axehead. The fragment is a sub-triangular shape with two of the sides being old breaks. It comprises the thickened rim from the mouth of the socket with a raised transverse band around the exterior approximately 5mm inboard of this. Between the rim and the inset band there is a raised longitudinal casting seam. The unbroken edge of the fragment shows a slight curvature commensurate with it being from the mouth of a socket. The colour is a mid green faded to light green by erosion on the high spots. Circa 1000-700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E2E61D
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a cast copper alloy Bronze Age blade. The fragment consists of a short tapering full-width segment, broken transversely at either end. There is no mid-rib and its small size is more suggestive of a smaller weapon such as a dagger, but this does rather depend on how far down the blade the section belongs. Other than its classic lenticular cross-section, and patina commensurate with the possible age, it lacks all of its diagnostic features; consequently, the classification cannot be further confirmed or refined. Rough mi…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-148F35
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of leaded bronze middle Bronze Age rapier. No original edges remain but there is a pronounced mid-rib along the full length, bar a short section towards the hilt where it feathers out. One fracture edge at the upper hilt end shows the half-round remains of a rivet hole, with a possible second on the adjacent edge. Mid green Patina. Extant length 70mm, width 20mm, thickness 4mm at mid-rib, weight 18g. Circa 1400 BC-1250 BC.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.