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Record ID: NMS-03E593
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete unlooped copper-alloy Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave axehead. The H-shaped hafting channels at the butt are in good condition, with most of the original edges surviving on all four flanges. The butt narrows before a worn transverse break. The (abraded) stop ridge is slightly higher than the flanges. The septum is 57.1mm long. Beneath the stop ridge on both faces is a moulded shield-shaped pattern, bisected by a prominent longitudinal ridge creating a trident pattern. The ridges fade before the cutting edge. The crescentic cutting edge is jagged and abraded. There are no ca…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6FB233
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age awl. One end is flat in cross-section, and gradually thickens to a circular cross-section of diameter 3mm about halfway down the object. It is slightly bent here, causing stress to the metal and loss of the surface. From here it tapers to a point. Where the surface is lost, the colour is a matt green; where the surface survives it is a polished dark brown. Length (as bent) 52mm, maximum width (at flat end) 5mm, maximum thickness 3mm, weight 3.17g. Similar awls were made throughout the middle and late Bronze Age, but the dark brown patina suggests a middle Bronze Age da…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-54E13B
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring with dark green polished surface. It is 20mm in diameter externally and with a central hole 11mm in diameter. The ring is 5mm thick where best preserved; in other places, corrosion has removed some of the surface. In cross-section it is kite-shaped, with an acutely pointed arris around the exterior and a more gentle angle in the central hole. It weighs 6.21g. Rings of these proportions have been dated to the late Bronze Age (e.g. WILT-7BCF7B, with references), or Iron Age to Roman periods (e.g. SOM-7EDF21, WILT-CDE753, HAMP-E3F5BC).
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-60D75C
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Middle - Late Bronze Age copper alloy axehead dating to the period c. 900 - 600 BC. Corner fragment with old breaks on all edges. Casting seam visible on the outer face. Mottled dark green patina with slight greyish sheen.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C4CF21
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl with sub-square to round-sectioned blade and square to rectangular-section tang. Length 55mm. Maximum width 4.5mm. Weight 4.80g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6AD106
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age copper alloy rapier or dirk with rounded butt, two broken rivet-holes in the hafting-plate (extant width 34mm), blade with slight bend at mid-point, flat median rib, corroded and pitted with damaged edges and rounded point. Length 128mm. Blade 5mm thick. Weight 56.73g. 1400-1200 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-C88016
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the cutting edge of a Bronze Age axehead of uncertain type. Length 9.5mm. Width 37.5mm. Thickness 4.6mm. Weight 5.45g.
Created on: Saturday 14th December 2013
Last updated: Saturday 14th December 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-BCFB94
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lump of molten casting waste, weighs 61.48 g.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BCE318
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of socketed object, probably socketed axe. Dimensions of >18 x >10 mm. Weighs 6.27 g.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BCC9C6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cutting edge of socketed axe, worn and corroded. Dimensions: width 46 mm, thickness >11 mm, length >29 mm. Weighs 54.93 g. Dates to c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-409DE7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe, broad and narrow rib at mouth and part of stump of missing loop. Old breaks and both old and recent 'scuffing'. >21 x >34mm.
Created on: Tuesday 26th August 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-402A48
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe, broad and narrow rib at mouth and traces of three fine longitudinal ribs on surviving face. Old breaks and both old and recent 'scuffing'. >35 x >26mm.
Created on: Tuesday 26th August 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20E795
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age fragment of socketed axe, broad and narrow rib at mouth and traces of three fine longitudinal ribs on surviving face. Old breaks and both old and recent 'scuffing'. >35 x >26mm.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1EFEB3
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed axe, broad and narrow rib at mouth and part of stump of missing loop. Old breaks and both old and recent 'scuffing'. >21 x >34mm.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27F795
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age spearhead, hollow-cast, almost all of blade missing, small part of shoulders survives, stumps of broken side loops on incomplete oval-sectioned socket. Length >50mm. Socket 25 x c.16mm. 1600-1000 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 20th May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C5EC87
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead, tip only, broken at start of socket, prominent concave-sided median ribs, >13 x 42mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmahm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1961B6
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age Socketed chisel, double moulding at socketed end, large hole in body (damage) flaring to cutting edge, 22 x 57mm.
Created on: Wednesday 24th March 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS675
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of socketed axehead, cutting end. Cutting edge itself is broken in places and badly distorted. This piece has almost certainly been broken up for re-use and has been partly melted (else it is an extremely bad mis-cast!). Sides where visible flare very slightly to slightly expanded cutting edge, width 41mm. Weighs 43.93g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LOUND', grid reference and parish protected.