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Record ID: NMS-9C07B6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe dating to circa 1000-800 BC. The extant portion consists of a small part of the socket mouth. It has a double moulded rim and is curved in profile. It terminates in worn breaks along along the body.  It has a dark green patina. Length: 30.1mm; Width: 21.5mm; Thickness: 5.4mm; Weight: 10.78g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-627D01
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cutting edge and part of the body of a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, of mid-green patination, most of the upper part is broken in antiquity. the break is abraded and a lighter colour to the original surfaces, as is the the remains of the the cutting edge, now truncated by surface loss. Depth of remaining socket: 16 mm. 1000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E927CC
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small mouth sherd of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead with all surfaces including breaks covered in ferrous staining. Extant length and width 11.2 and 23mm. Weight 6.53g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38706A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of mouth from a large socketed axe of late Bronze Age date (c. 1000 to 800 BC). About half survives, with one angle between front and side, showing that (when viewed from the top) the mouth was originally sub-square or sub-rectangular, with convex sides. One filed-down oval bump on the top,  near the break at the side, is probably the remains of a casting runner stub. Viewed from the front, the moulding around the mouth droops outwards with a bevelled edge. Immediately below this there is a clear, neat vertical ridge running down the centre of the side for the …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-53D675
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe, only the rectangular sectioned cutting edge was recovered. The breaks are ancient and patinated the same dark brown colour as the other surfaces, one side of the expansion for the blade has been slighly concaved by hammering, presumably to work harden the cutting edge, the other side remains convex. 1,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 16th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1FE364
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the blade end of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe. The cutting edge is convex and complete, although worn. At the opposite end the fragment terminates in a worn and fairly straight transverse break (a long oval in cross-section). From the break to the cutting edge it expands in width with straight sides, only very slightly concavely flaring out at the lateral tips. It tapers in thickness slightly convexly from the break to a point at the tip. The socket survives to depth of eleven millimetres. The external surface is patinated dark brown and pale-green. Similar to NMS-48F7A9.…
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A8B478
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the blade end of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe. The convex cutting edge is complete, but only very short lengths of the concave lateral edges are extant. The fragment terminates in a transverse worn break at about seventeen millimetres from the cutting edge. The fragment expands in thickness from the cutting edge to the break, perhaps marginally convexly. A shallow remnant of the socket survives on the broken edge. The metal is patinated mid green and pale brownish green. Similar to, although smaller than NMS-DA18AB. 10th to 8th century B.C. Length: 18.1mm. Width: 36.8mm.…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DA18AB
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, the crescentic cutting edge and the very end of the socket. The break is old but there is recent scuffing damage, especially to the cutting edge. Weight 93g. Extant length 31.5mm. Width 62.7mm. Thickness 14.5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D88F73
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, part of the socket and all of the crescentic cutting edge. The two broad faces are distorted at the old break. All of the patination has been lost except for a patch behind both ends of the blade. Weight 80g. Extant length 42.5mm. Width 46mm. Thickness 15.2mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1097CC
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, with the lower part of the socket and all of the cutting edge missing below a non-recent break. A casting seam runs the full length of the sides from the almost circular mouth over a double collar to the break (that on one side over the side loop as well). All four corners below the lower collar are chamfered so that the cross-section is octagonal. Each chamfer, running between two ribs, narrows and curves outwards as it descends. At the break there is a strong difference in the thickness of the metal, between 2mm on o…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4A44B2
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gently curved fragment of the mouth of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Below the external rounded thickening there is a horizontal rib moulding. The breaks are not recent. The shiny surface, especially evident on the interior, is probably the result of tin enrichment. Extant length and width 20.8 and 26.3mm. Weight 11.3g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Saturday 11th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-520AA8
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Socketed axe, of tapering sub-rectangular section: - of chocolate brown patination with patchy iron oxide deposits to the surface, somewhat encrusted around the side loop. A large fragment is missing to one side of the mouth of the socket, otherwise small losses of surface elsewhere to the socket, side loop and the cutting edge, showing a paler grey/green corroded surface below. Both sides retain a casting seam, the sides flare slightly towards the crescent-shaped cutting edge, the axe is undecorated apart from the standard double collar at, and below the mouth…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E3BEC5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead with old breaks, part of a slightly thickened mouth with part of a very low longitudinal rib.  Weight 11.37g. Length 26mm. Width 19.5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 19th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 3rd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B36E56
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded fragment of copper alloy late Bronze Age looped socketed axehead. The probable oval-shaped mouth is missing, as is one face almost to the base of the socket. Approximately half of a loop survives on the lower side. The body has slight traces of casting flash and some post-removal witness marks survive. The nominally 23mm wide parallel shape of the body flares at it's lower end to form the blade and cutting edge which estimates to 33mm wide. The surface is pock-marked with evidence of a rich brown patina breaking down to active blue-green corrosion.…
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-775AAE
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late Bronze Age socketed axehead. About half survives, now squashed flat. There is a crack down both sides, and the axe has apparently been deliberately hammered flat, although there are no visible hammer marks. The break across the centre is old and worn. It measures 30.5mm across the broken edge, and 45mm wide at most. The fragment is 49mm long and a maximum of 11mm thick, and weighs 72.37g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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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-525460
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe dating to the period circa 1300-700 BC. The only surviving part of the object is the corner of the socket rim, which forms an L shape in section. The rim is 4mm thick consisting of a moulded central spine. On the surface of the object a prominent casting seam forming vertical and horizontal grooves. The fragmentary remains of the object preclude any further typological certainty but it socketed axes were in use from the middle Bronze Age through to the onset of the Iron Age, and use-wear analysis indicates they were used for a v…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-C2962C
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mouth fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe with ancient breaks, extant length 21mm, weight 12.39g, c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-19F66A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the mouth of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead with recent scuffing on old breaks. Extant length and width 22.5 and 29mm. Weight 10.67g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FAF019
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pitted and corroded fragment of Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe, cutting edge and the end of the socket containing some corrosion. The breaks are ancient. Extant length 33mm. Width 37mm. Extant thickness 12mm. Weighs 38.84g. c.1000 - c.701 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
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