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Record ID: NMS-518A8F
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary, hard hammer struck flake with semi-steep retouch to the dorsal face of the distal end to form an elongated (possibly hafted?) end scraper, of unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint, both lateral edges are unretouched and left sharp near to the platform. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5166FD
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hard hammer struck flake, of brown/orange patinated flint, small amount of cortex to the platform, both lateral edges towards the distal end broadly notched with steep retouch to the dorsal face to form a projection for drilling/boring. Bulb of percussion is set at 45 degrees to the axis of the tool. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E88BC4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete barbed and tanged arrowhead, of slightly brown patinated mottled grey flint, both faces are extensively pressure flaked with the flake terminations passing over each other at the centre, no sign of the original surface of the flake blank that was used to make this. The tang has survived, though both barbes are missing, one side has been snapped along the axis of the length, taking the barb with it, both the breaks appear to be transverse bending fractures and not impact damage, they are probably post depositional from having heavy agricultural machinery driven over the top. …
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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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-C326DB
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Middle Bronze Age short flanged axe, in corroded condition; parts of the original surface survive, but they are surrounded by surface loss and crusty surface expansion, the former especially to the edges. The original surfaces are patinated dark glossy green, the corrosion is shades of medium to light green. The shape is reminiscent of a standard early Palstave axe, though the stop ridge is far less pronounced;it is little more than a low, straight semi-circular bar (c. 3 mm high) defining the end of the septum and the beginning of the blade, set just within the confines of…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2AB663
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbed and tanged arrowhead, of Green, H.S. (1980: The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles, BAR (British Series) vol.75) Sutton B type. Made from a primary flake of dark brown, good quality flint, with the sandy coloured, worn chalky cortex (the "rind" flint has to its outer surface) remaining to the dorsal face, the edges have been carefully and invasively (as far as the cortex would allow) pressure flaked to shape. The ventral face has had similar flaking; the edges are pressure flaked but the removals didn’t cross over the centre line, leaving the original sur…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-980B06
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gridded field walking survey. A1. One struck secondary flake, unpatinated mottled flint, possible retouch to one lateral edge. 36 x 27 x 9 mm, 9g. Neo/BA. A2. Tertiary scraper of conventional form with steep retouch to the distal end and partly to the sides, slightly iron stained pale to mid grey flint. 49 x 43 x 13 mm, 34g. Neo/BA. Small tertiary flake of trapezoidal section. 27.5 x 17.5 x 7 mm, 3g. Neo/BA. Fragment of an Early Neolithic leaf shaped arrowhead, slightly curving lateral edges, broken transversely twice so all that remains is the mid-section, butt and point missing, …
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EFC184
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arrowhead rough-out, a tertiary semi-soft hammer struck flake has been modified by invasive pressure flaking to form the general outline of a leaf shaped arrowhead, one side (the ventral face has been flaked to a much greater degree than the dorsal with removals from all edges towards the centre, the middle “blank” area is the original surface of the struck flake that the flakes haven’t been able to reach. The dorsal face has the point and base and one side invasively pressure flaked, mostly following the high points and the thicker areas of the flake as is usual duri…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EED963
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five struck flakes, four hard hammer struck, one semi-soft hammer struck. Three are tertiary (including the soft hammer one) and two are secondary, all have use wear or post depositional damage to the thin edges, the soft hammer flake has a shallow notch c. 9 mm across, 2.5 mm deep and a hinged termination to the flakes distal end. Largest: 66.5 mm x 29.5 x 9mm 21g. Smallest (soft hammer, tertiary) 35.5 x 22.5 x 4 mm 4g. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-256F78
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bow brooch of most unusual form, now patinated dark brown with lighter, rusty coloured pits covering the surfaces, some of the broken and abraded edges are showing green. The head/pin mechanism is missing, leaving a sub-rectangular slight expansion just before the irregular break. The catch plate is set to the right-hand side when viewed from the front with the (missing) spring uppermost; this is of typical open topped form, with the trough for the pin slightly angled to accept the pin; it is now incomplete. The bow is of trapezoidal section and thickens towards the mid…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-23CB83
Object type: MACE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a flint nodule with a natural, off-centre hole through, of mottled grey flint with bands of orange/brown, now broken transversely across the hole. Part of the outer cortex appears to have been removed by hard hammer percussion from the centreline when viewed from the side, with flake scars struck from this point being struck centripetally towards the hole and bifacially knapped, some of the flake scars have crushed and not come away cleanly, part of the cortical edge is too steep for flakes to have been removed and remains unmodified apart from a couple of old frost fractur…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-903B11
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small ovate handaxe in fresh condition, of Wymer, J.J. (1999) type E/K, of partially patinated, mottled grey flint; the dorsal face is the most extensively worked with one side of the of the point left unworked, a natural fracture, this is a shade darker than the flake scars next to it and appears quite blank, the ventral face is worked around the periphery, again leaving a large natural orange patinated fracture surface unmodified in the centre; the flake scars have fallen short and hinge terminated forming an “island”, the hinges are concentrated on the poorer quality, co…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E66429
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Asymmetrical laurel leaf point or knife, made from a thick, elongated primary of secondary flake of off-white patinated flint with patches of rusty iron oxide stains to both faces. The ventral face is largely unaltered from its fairly flat bulbar surface, a few flake scars around the periphery are evident, one has been struck quite deeply to one side of the “point”. The dorsal face has the most flake scars; struck towards the centreline with the straighter of the two lateral edges being the more invasive and lower angled, this probably is the main cutting edge, the more cur…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E501A8
Object type: LAUREL LEAF
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Laurel leaf point made from a semi-bifacially knapped, hard hammer struck flake as a blank, of pale to mid-grey banded flint with a dark “wash” patination, collecting in the recesses. The dorsal face is worked by direct percussion to form a leaf point, the flakes have run a little short to overlap down the middle, leaving the blanks original surface running down the centre, two flake scars to the side have hinged terminations, the ventral face retains part of the underside of the blanks original unmodified flat surface toward the point and to half way down the point, it is …
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-AA5824
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. It is cordate shaped and bifacially worked, but with a small section of cortex remaining in the centre of one face. There is heavy iron staining on all surfaces and the edges are rolled.  Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 73.96mm, width: 56.27mm, thickness: 24.28mm, weight: 150g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA5159
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. Small sub-cordate shape and bifacially worked with just a small amount of cortex remaining towards the butt end of one face. The flint is dark grey-brown in colour with light speckled patination that is heavier on the face with the cortex. Rolled edges.  Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 81.46mm, width: 71.16mm, thickness: 23.00mm, weight: 141.89g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA40F8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe likely to date to around 600,000 BC. Sub-cordate shape (Wymer (1999) Type E/D) with retouch mainly confined to the edges of both faces. There is a large patch of pebble cortex remaining in the centre of one face. The edges and surfaces are heavily abraded.  Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 121.53mm, width: 91.76mm, thickness: 29.11mm, weight: 340g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA327C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint lower Paleolithic handaxe. Pointed in shape and bifacially worked with a small patch of cortex remaining in the centre of one face. The face without the cortex is more heavily patinated and all surfaces are iron stained. The edges are rolled and the pointed tip is particularly abraded. Found along the north Suffolk coast on the edge of the Pakefield to Kessingland outcrop of forest bed material (see Robins et al. 2008).  Length: 112.87mm, width: 73.86mm, thickness: 37.81mm, weight: 302g
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6B49CE
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, semi-soft hammer struck long blade, from a multi-platform core, of very worn and pale whitish to yellow patinated flint with some old agricultural iron scrapes to the high points of the dorsal face and some fine spots and streaks to the ventral face, the two patches of remining thin, grey cortex is almost worn through by rolling. All thin edges are battered and chipped, some more recent, and less patinated than others and cut through the pale-yellow patination of the older surfaces, some now white, one or two are showing as pale grey and may represent the original colour of …
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 17th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.