Record ID: SF-9072A6
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete low flanged bronze (unanalysed) axehead, with a 'brassy' appearance, perhaps due to a high tin content, it measures 169mm in length, 92mm in width across its cutting edge and a maximum thickness of 12mm. It is thin and narrow with a slightly arched butt. The sides curve gently to a flared blade. Both faces are slightly dished in cross-section. It has low lateral flanges with slightly convex sides. There is a slight edge bevel and a very slight 'stop' bevel though the longitudinal cross-section remains relatively elliptical. Both faces are decorated with repe…
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A28E34
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flanged axehead or palstave. Very battered fragment of haft, terminal & edges of flanges missing. length 22mm, maximum width 25mm. Thickness 6mm.
Created on: Friday 28th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mautby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9E9143
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A bronze fragment from the blade end of a small socketed axehead or chisel. There is some surface survival but much is lost due to corrosion and erosion. All the edges are eroded and relatively rounded. It is patinated dark green, including the breaks, which suggests that the breaks are ancient. The commplete width of the cutting edge survives and the socket extends to 9mm from blade edge. It measures 18mm in length and 36mm in width. This probable axe is late Bronze Age in date.
Created on: Monday 21st February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hilgay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EC12D5
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age Awl with rather flat rectangular-section tang. Longitudinal casting seam on “blade”. Length 41mm. Diameter 5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2005
Last updated: Monday 29th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F58551
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age casting waste, sub-triangular with tapering central rib and thin broken flange on both sides, flat broad end, thick patches of sooting on both faces, 25 x 32mm
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1D32E8
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age fragment of socket from chisel or gouge, thickened and flaring outward at break at one end, at least 28 x 17mm, approx.diam.16mm.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-87B8C7
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A barbed and tanged flint arrowhead with a recent break on the tang exposing a medium-dark grey flint. Another small 'recent' chip occurs on one side of the arrowhead. A small part of the tip is also missing but this is an ancient (patinated) break. The arrowhead is patinated blue white but curiously only over part of the surface. Interestingly the areas of unpatinated surface, which are black, appear to be limited to the central and base areas of the arrowhead and suggest a possible haft/adhesive mark. Such an occurrance is extremely rare; Green (1980) cited only 15 examples of f…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southery', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DC5731
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment. Part of one face. Single mouth moulding, with a slight rib below and part of at least two longitudinal ribs, It measures 31mm in length and 29mm in width.
Created on: Friday 20th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81B338
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle-Late Bronze Age 2 joining fragments of Pennard industry flat-rib rapier blade, broad flat rib with transverse marks from hammering, edges very battered, broken at ends (ancient breaks, including those at join), at least 16 x 110mm. 1200-900 BC.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gunthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1085A5
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy Awl, sub-rectangular-sectioned shank with swelling at approximately two thirds of length (width 4mm), remaining approximately one third pointed circular-sectioned, length 44mm.
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-504A71
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment of an unidentified object the function and date of which are also unknown. The fragment is curvilinear and rectangular in plan measuring 25mm in length and 18mm in width, the curvilinear outer edges appear to be original and the other two edges are incomplete due to old breaks. One face has a central longitudinal ridge and the other has a central longitudinal concave band. No parallel could be found for this object especially as it is so fragmentary.
Created on: Monday 25th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southery', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-1E0AB4
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete copper alloy Bronze Age flanged axe. The axe is in generally poor condition. It is subrectangular in plan and an elongated lentoid in profile. It flares gently at the blade end and the cutting edge is missing. The exposed edge is now heavily worn, chipped and pitted. The blade points are also worn down and the surfaces are similarly heavily abraded and chipped. When viewed in plan, the body of the axe is of equal width along its length. The butt of the axe is damaged with a rough diagonal break across one corner. The flanges of the axe are heavily worn. They rise above …
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1F1132
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age Part of blade of two-edged knife, rather worn and pitted. The point is abraded and rounded, the other end broken. c.1000 - c.700 BC. From the photo, the object appears to be c. 49.5mm long and c. 10.8mm wide. Compare PUBLIC-C0E767.
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A085D6
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy ‘south western’ type late Middle Bronze Age palstave axe. The back portion of the axe has a septum that is rectangular in plan with a pronounced backstop. The side flanges are high, and at their highest point rise fractionally past the backstop, along the axe’s length. The flanges then angle down sharply towards the rear of the axe and reach the septum at a point just before the butt, typical of this variant. This gives the back portion of the axe a sharply wedge shaped profile. The butt of the axe is slightly chipped and worn. The blade of the axe is r…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-083CF3
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age tanged chisel, very delicate, blade width 6mm, length 45mm. Weighing 1.92g.
Created on: Monday 15th August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1A9AA2
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age fragment of blade of rapier. Width 21.5mm, length 21mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1B1E72
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly Late Bronze Age and possibly Romano-British heavy cast ring. In section the inner surface is rounded and the external carinated. Internal diameter 6mm, external diameter 15mm, thickness 5mm. Perhaps used as a bead. This example is not very similar to Late Bronze Age examples from Fengate (Coombs in Pryor 2001, 291, fig.10.10) or Blackmoor (Colquhoun 1979, 109, fig.4.4), nor does it resemble any in the large series of Romano-British rings from Uley (Woodward and Leach 1993, 135-40).
Created on: Tuesday 16th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-82F415
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age Squat copper alloy flat axehead with slightly damaged butt-end, sides expanding and flaring slightly to rather asymmetrical cutting edge (width 60mm). Body rectangular in section and quite thick at mid-way point (10mm), thinning to butt-end and cutting edge. Surface corroded. Length 78mm, width 59mm, weighs 209g. c.2350 – c.1500 BC.
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemblington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-022227
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age Incomplete copper alloy socketed chisel, surface pitted and corroded, socketed end missing, body flares to cutting edge, 30 x 75mm. 1000-700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Happisburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3CB262
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age Part of blade of two-edged knife, both ends broken, cutting edges damaged, iron stained. Length 52mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gunthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.