Record ID: NMS-14FB68
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting jet, possible Bronze Age, crude irregular inverted cone, both sides with a casting flash. 29.5 x 24mm. Height 31mm. Weighs 46.01g. c. 1500-700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B52A4E
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Bronze Age copper alloy sprue or casting jet from a two-part mould. Oval/sub-rectangular-sectioned (31 x 29mm), pitted concave upper face, with casting seam on both tapering convex sides and broken springing of narrow rectangular jet at base (18 x 6mm). Extant height 29mm. Weight 103.00g. Cf. NMS-BDCC81. c. 1600 - 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-68AB89
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead, end of blade with blunt damaged point of lozengiform section. The damaged cutting edges have a slight concave taper to the point. The lower end is broken with no trace of a socket. Extant length 52.5mm. Extant width 18mm. Extant thickness 8mm. Weight 14.46g. c. 1600 - c. 1000 BC.
Created on: Monday 25th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1E699D
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age palstave axe of typical non side-looped form, with 'shield-shaped' moulding immediately below the stop ridge. Pitted, worn and corroded, damaged butt end and flanges. Length 140mm. Width 55mm. Weighs 290g. c. 1,600 to 1,400 BC.
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-901ADA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'moustache-shaped' object, cast in one piece, of probable middle Bronze Age to Iron Age date. It has a central narrowed constriction, undecorated and with a vertical step down to it, which is curved on the top and has a rounded hollow on the underneath, c. 7mm in diameter. The constriction measures c. 9mm thick and 13mm wide. To either side is a thicker, tapering, drooping element, D-shaped in cross-section although slightly rounded rather than completely flat on the underside. The upper surface of each half is curved with no surviving trace of the usual engra…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FB09AD
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy looped palstave with trapezoidal blade. Single side loop and haft with deep flanges. Traces of casting seam running the full length of both sides. Below the stop ridge on both faces there is a trident moulding at the top of a median rib which extends as far as the start of the cutting edge. Length 177mm. Width of blade 40mm. Thickness at stop ridge 32mm. Weight 538g. c.1400 - c.1200 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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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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Record ID: NMS-EA30C8
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Middle Bronze Age copper alloy flanged axehead of Needham's (1983) Type 5a. Narrow butt (width 15mm, 3mm thick). The body is slender and expands to form a blade with a crescentic cutting edge (width 52mm). The sides are flanged and have a lenticular profile (maximum thickness 13mm). The surface has some pitting and corrosion. Length 91.5mm. 128.12g. See Needham 1983. c. 1700 - 1500 BC.
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 15th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-735C99
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flat axe, very worn and corroded with corroded scraps of original surface surviving. Both faces of rectangular section slightly convex, tapering to thin rounded butt end and cutting edge. Length 86.5mm. Width 44mm. 9mm thick. Weighs 150g. c. 2000-1500 BC.
Created on: Friday 4th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-73207A
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age unlooped palstave, the surface with patches of corrosion, much of which is concentrated between the flanges on both faces. Below the stop ridge a low rib defines a rounded shield-shaped motif. Chipped cutting edge. Both sides have a longitudinal casting seam. Weight 389g. Length 151mm. Width 60mm. Thickness 28mm. c.1600 - c.1000 BC.
Created on: Friday 4th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-49E053
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 axe, vertical casting seam. Extant length 18mm. Extant width 25.5mm. Weight 6.53g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 24th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-480C5A
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small butt-end fragment of a Middle Bronze Age flanged palstave. Worn oblique fracture, pitted dark green patination, damaged edges. Extant length 32mm. Extant width 25mm. Weight 24.60g. c.1600 - c.1000 BC.
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CCB807
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axe, the lower end and blade missing. Most of the surface missing with a patch surviving on one face (49 x 25mm), decorated with transverse rows of multiple oblique lines forming a crude and somewhat botched attempt at a herringbone pattern, and with traces or ghosts of the same on the other, very worn and corroded, face . The break is worn and ancient. Megaw and Hardy 1938, Type I. Extant length 75mm. Extant width 31mm. Thickness 10mm. Weight 107.45g. c. 2150 to - c. 1700 BC.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2019
Last updated: Saturday 15th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8D09D1
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle to Late Bronze Age copper alloy knife with triangular blade. All bar a slight stump of the tang is missing. A very slender flat-sectioned example (1.5mm thick). The break is not recent. Extant length 52.5mm. Width 19.5mm. Weight 5.18g. c.1300 - c. 800 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FB5C83
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and unusually large Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl with probable pointed end missing and tapering square to rectangular-section tang, slight damage at end. Extant length 73.5mm. Maximum width 7mm. Weighs 7.51g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3FD035
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age razor, probably Piggott's (1946) Class II, although too damaged to find a close parallel. Flat-sectioned, broken across a perforation at the end of the handle, slight concavities at the springing of the blade, the remainder of which has an irregular broken edge. Extant length 62.5mm. Extant width 33mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weighs 6.05g. c.1000 - c.701 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3D6677
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Quoit-Headed pin. The shank tapers and changes from oval to circular sectioned with a marked bend near the point. The slightly bent lozenge-sectioned looped head has two granular and possibly recent breaks where around a third of the loop is missing. The surface has some wear and corrosion but appears to be undecorated. Weight 22.09g. Extant length 208mm. Width of head loop: 77mm. c.1400-1250 BC. Quoit-headed pins are characteristic of the Middle Bronze Age 'ornament horizon' which has been dated to the Taunton and Penard metalwork phases (Roberts 2007,…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Record ID: NMS-17CE57
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age hollow cast copper alloy spearhead, broken at both ends, the point and most of the blade and much of the socket are missing and the surviving edges of the blade damaged, both faces of socket with transverse hammer marks. Extant length 33mm, extant width 22mm, extant thickness 16mm. Weight 14.19g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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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
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Record ID: NMS-B153B7
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl. Circular-sectioned tang with rounded blunt end, tapering to a bent point at the other end. Length (unbent) 40mm. Diam. 5mm. Weight 3.86g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Friday 25th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
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