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Record ID: NMS-EF5654
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stone roof tile, micaceous, probably from a Lincolnshire / Rutland / Northamptonshire source, a so-called "Collyweston slate", probably medieval, thickness 11mm, weight 42g, 13th - early 16th century.  On bare soil surface badly disturbed by rabbits.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B75854
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Saddle quern made from a coarse-grained quartz dolerite or diabase erratic, mid-grey with numerous lighter coloured coarse inclusions, the centre appears to have been hollowed by use to depth of c. 50 mm, the depression is sub-circular: c. 130 x 150 mm. The outside of the stone is very roughly and minimally shaped to a sub-bowl shape, one edge is especially straight and is ground almost smooth, presumably to enable the contents to be tipped out once processed. Cf. LIN-ED2837 for a broadly similar quern. Saddle querns were used to grind many plants and seeds both for culi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D88224
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a large sub-rectangular sectioned whetstone, of fine-grained non micaceous mid grey stone with lighter, linier streaks throughout, both ends are broken, the surviving section appears to be the centre with all sides constricted from use wear, one only subtlety worn, one face has a prominent, rounded groove that runs down the length on the centre, this must have been wear from one specialised form of grinding or sharpening.
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D82BE3
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a whetstone of fine-grained non micaceous mid-grey stone, perforated at one end by a drilled hole with a slightly “hourglass” cross section, this originally made the recorder think that this may have been a Beaker period stone wrist bracer with a single hole, further research has shown many of the whetstones from the Early Medieval/Medieval period had similar profiled perforations and is now much more likely to be of this later date and function. One lateral edge and the end with the perforation is ground to a thin, pointed edge, the opposing side is flat, almos…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DBA921
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two small fragments of stone roof tiles, micaceous, probably from a Lincolnshire / Rutland / Northamptonshire source, a so-called "Collyweston slate". One retains its full thickness of 11mm and weighs 29.77g. The other is a laminated sliver, thickness 6mm, weight 10.13g. Probably medieval, 13th - early 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E0C525
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman Millstone Grit rotary quernstone, an upper stone with much recent damage on all surfaces. Loss of the original surface is particularly noticeable around the edge and in the hopper (the concave area around the hole on the upper face). Diameter 330mm, height / thickness 70 - 90mm, weight 9.8kg. Central hole diameter 30 - 40mm. Handle hole diameter c.20mm, depth at least 50mm. A Roman date is reasonably certain. Post-Roman quernstones in any material apart from Rhenish lava have not been recorded in Norfolk (e.g. Clarke and Carter 1977, 444; …
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D764D7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Saxon or medieval Norwegian ragstone hone both ends missing, parts of two faces and of one straight side only. Extant length 47.5mm, thickness 5 - 6.5mm. Weight 8.9g. Norwegian Ragstone was imported in quantity before the Conquest (Moore, D.T. and Ellis, S.E. in Rogerson and Dallas 1984, 107-11) and in Norfolk remained "the preferred material for hones during the late medieval period" (Mills, J.M. with Moore, D. in Shepherd Popescu 2009, 709). 10th - 15th century.
Created on: Monday 17th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C2F9A0
Object type: SADDLE QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric, Late Neolithic to Iron Age, roughly oval saddle quern made from a glacial erratic of very hard, fine-grained sandstone, in fresh condition but broken quite recently into two pieces. The reverse is entirely unworked. Weight 14.6kg.  Length 430mm, width 275mm, thickness 90mm. c.3000 BC – c.AD 42. School field
Created on: Sunday 16th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C2C3CC
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lava quern of unknown date, with apparently no original edge present. One face is rough and the other worn smooth with the tooled grooves scarcely visible. Thickness 35 – 40mm, weight 744g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval. Find spot falls with Square B5 of gridded survey of Hill Field conducted in 1990 and 2004-5, see file in HER.
Created on: Sunday 16th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-631B2D
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
B3 Fragment of upper stone of a Roman Rhineland lava quern with a recess or reduction of thickness on the upper face c.45mm from the edge (cf. Rogerson 1977, fig. 64 nos.1-3), weight 652g, diameter 420mm, thickness at edge 63mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2443FD
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Millstone Grit quern fragment without extant edge but with part of central perforation (diameter c.80mm), weight 415g, mid 1st - 4th century. Possibly Roman sandstone fragment, ?quern or sharpening stone?, not rotary, one smoothed concave face, thickness c.42mm, weight 612g
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F4258D
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a stone roof tile with part of a drilled peg hole of hourglass profile, micaceous, probably from a Lincolnshire/Rutland/Northamptonshire source, a so-called "Collyweston slate", weight 54g, thickness 14mm, hole diameter 11-14mm. Probably medieval, 13th - early 16th century.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F2F3DB
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Impressively banded igneous stone “slipper” mace head, the stone is fine-grained with grey/green layers between whiteish layers, the perforations were never completed; pecked and/or bored from both faces but now left as opposing “cups” to each face c. 23 mm dia. and each 11 mm deep, there was only c. 7 mm of unperforated stone  before the two would meet up. The surface has a small amount of fine, granular loss but essentially it is in good condition. Possibly locally made from a glacial erratic water worn pebble chosen for the aesthetics of the stone…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F2223C
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cornish greenstone axe with a degraded and weathered surface, this is usual for this type of stone, otherwise it is complete: -of petrological Group 1 or 1 a, (Group 1, Uralitized gabbro, epidiorite, or greenstone. Source in Mount’s Bay area, near Penzance, Cornwall. Widely distributed and abundant. Keiller, Piggott, and Wallis, PPS, 7 (1941), 51. Group 1 a, Close to Group 1. Stone and Wallis, PPS, 17 (1951), 105). Specific for this axe: Stone Imp. Pet. N308. Late Neolithic, 3,000 to 2,350 BC. See records: NMS-F2F3DB NMS-F27DB7 NMS-F2572B NMS-C0A67B fo…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DE8E86
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Near spherical bead of unknown date, probably made of stone. It has a circular perforation passing through it with straight tapering sides and a larger opening at one end than the other. The stone is pale yellowish-brown with patches of darker yellowish-brown. Undecorated beads are difficult to date. It is probably not prehistoric as those tend to have a perforation that is hourglass-shaped in profile. Length (measured along perforation): 14.9mm. Diameter (perpendicular to perforation): 14.7mm. Diameter of perforation (large end): 5.2mm, (small end): 4.1mm. Weight. 3.8g  
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-4DBE99
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint object, possibly a scraper tool dating to the lower Palaeolithic period (c.500,000-60,000 BC). The object is broadly oval in shape with a slight curve towards the end. The dorsal face shows evidence of working particularly around the prominent curved edge. Concoidal ripple marks radiate from the worked edge. However, the overall form is natural and shows no signs of preparation prior to working. The surface is largely covered by a smooth bright orange cortex. The ventral face remains covered in a thick, rough cortex. A prominent bulb of percussion is present at t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FC0CA6
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval Caen limestone colonnette, both ends broken, extant length 44mm, diameter 75mm, weight 326g. 12th – 13th century.
Created on: Friday 18th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FC00F8
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 small fragment of probably Roman limestone roof tile, thickness 11mm, weight 32g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 18th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-00CE76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I, Tower, ermine initial mark, North 1998, very worn, 1572
Created on: Monday 1st November 2021
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
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