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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-C7B185
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete side looped Palstave axe, of Rowlands, M. J. (1976) class 2, group 1 trident, mid-green patination with areas of surface pitting, smooth surface in between. The flanges to the butt are set low and straight, starting to rise from the surface approx. 1/3 of the length of the septum, the highest point being where the flanges meet the stop ridge (32.9 mm), The blade is relatively narrow, hardly expanding at the cutting edge at all, the cutting edge itself is blunt, this and the lack of cutting edge expansion indicate this axe may have never been sharpened, though the condition of …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th 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-A3799E
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of a Late Bronze Age copper-alloy socketed spearhead. It is lenticular in cross-section, having a central rib which tapers concavely in thickness to the lateral edges. These and the pointed tip are heavily abraded. It terminates in a worn transverse break opposite the pointed end. The very tip of the socket is preserved and visible at the centre of broken end. It is circular, approximately three millimetres in diameter and two millimetres deep. c. 1000 to 700 B.C.
Length: 30.5mm. Width: 13.8mm. Thickness: 6.1mm. Weight: 6.1g
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-8FA211
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scraper struck from a primary nodule flake of dark brown flint. The edge has short abrupt and semi abrupt scaled retouch to create a working edge. There is no evidence for a prepared striking platform although one side of the tool has considerable damage from battering, possibly consistent with hard-hammered removal; however the overall form suggests a natural potlid / frost fractured flake which has been casually re-used.
Probably of later prehistoric date, but (given the findspot) potentially earlier.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-550952
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete probable Middle Bronze Age copper alloy unidentified object, 'moustache-shaped' and in pitted and corroded condition, these usually have deep multiple longitudinal grooves on the upper part of the moustache the end plain where it tapers to a point, though the surface is now quite obscured. Central hollow in base, transverse median groove around the top between the upper bulges, and no, small rivet holes or perforation as some examples exhibit, c.f. SUSS-3AEC48. The date of this enigmatic object is uncertain. Examples occurred in the Salisbury Hoard, which contained Bro…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-2D0022
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost a complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H.S. (1980) Green low type, though the barbs are around the same length as the tang (Green lows have longer barbs than the tang) the general form of the notches and the slightly drooping barbs fit within that group, there is a tiny amount of recent damage; one corner of the (rectangular) tang is missing as is the very tip if the point, otherwise it is in pristine condition, the flint is glossy, dark brown/grey with a very slight misty patination to parts of the surface, both faces are completely covered with invasive pressure flak…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C8B8B
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertairy ?soft hammer struck flake with the bulb of percussion removed and neatly trimmed to a triangular shape by direct, steep percussion predominantly to the dorsal face, of slightly mottled dark grey flint with no patination. This is very likely to be an unfinished arrowhead, the profile is very straight for a struck flake, and the thickness is within the perfect range (4.6 mm), the trimming has evened out the curve already, the flake seems to have been worked into a blank then misplaced before the piece was extensively pressure flaked to its final shape, it is very likely this was…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1A4802
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H. S. (1980) type Sutton (tang longer than the barbs), of glossy unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint with invasive flake scars completely covering both faces and overlapping at the centre line, one barb appears to be complete, the other, larger barb is broken near the base of the notch, the tang is slightly off centre and is of rectangular shape. Early Bronze Age, 2,350 to 1,500 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-190487
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete plano-convex knife, made from a hard hammer struck tertiary flake of good quality dark grey/black flint with minimal patination, the ventral surface remains blank; as struck, the dorsal face has been extensively and invasively pressure flaked, the distal end of the knife is broken transversely across a thinner, weaker section of the knife. Early Bronze Age, 2,350-1,500 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-671DDD
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green, H, S, (1980) type Sutton b, with the barbs just shorter than the tang, made from a struck flake, unusually with the bulb of percussion originally orientated at the tang (they tend to be orientated to the point), the concentric ripples to the ventral face are somewhat exaggerated. The flint is now patinated orange/brown from contact with iron oxides in the soil, The main shaping was quickly pressure flaked to a fairly steep angle, as opposed to the invasive pressure flaking on larger examples; this is probably due to the small size of the arro…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-02655D
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the haft part of a middle to late Bronze Age copper-alloy side-looped palstave axehead. The butt is extant and fairly well preserved. At the other end, the fragment terminates in a worn transverse break. Just before the break, a remnant of the side loop (a small integral lump) projects from one side.
The fragment tapers in width only very slightly from the break to the butt. The flanges on one side are better preserved than the other. Viewed side-on they form a triangle, tapering from the break to a point at the butt. This would be replicated on the other side bu…
Created on: Friday 6th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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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-D5565B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Piece of gold rod, probably a small fragment of a flange-twisted or bar-twisted torc with three flanges, now bent into a spiral of two full turns. One end is original, with a rounded tip and neat triangular cross-section. From the rounded tip, the terminal flares slightly for c. 10mm and runs straight, before starting to coil. As it starts to curve, each face becomes concave so that the cross-section is Y-shaped, and the rod is then neatly twisted as well as bent into a coil. After two full turns the rod is apparently cut or broken. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd 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-2AFA04
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a probably Late Bronze Age copper alloy probable awl, the terminal of a tang with an ancient break. Width and thickness at the break 7.2 and 3.1mm. The width increases to 9mm before the rounded, wedge-like terminal. Weight 3.62g. Extant length 28.5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: WMID-E43F8C
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy awl, probably dating from the Middle Bronze Age to Roman periods, c. 1500 BC - 410 AD.
The object is double ended, with one end being circular in section while tapering to a blunt rounded point. The opposing end is broadly rectangular in section while thinning to a chisel-like point. The centre of the object is broadly square in section.
The awl is in very good condition with only minor surface damage. It is dark brown in colour with an even patina.
The object measures 54.8mm in length. It measures 4.2 mm wide in …
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2CBAA7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, probably a finger ring, of uncertain but not recent date. It is not perfectly circular but slightly pointed on one side (like the profile of an egg). It is oval in cross-section, thickest and widest at one side and tapering in both dimensions, at first minimally and then more significantly until there is a short slightly straightened length on the pointed side, as if it had been stretched when molten. It is patinated dark green with internal pale green mottles.
Diameter: 27.5mm x 25.2mm. Width: 3.8 - 5.9mm Thickness: 2.4 - 4.1mm. Weight: 8.3g
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-DE72FB
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a knife / dagger blade of Bronze Age date (c.2000-800 BC).
The object is sub-triangular in plan and lozenge shaped in cross section, suggesting that it could be from the raised centre of a blade, possible a sword. The object is heavily worn so any remnants of the blade's edge have been worn away and all that remains is this sub-triangular fragment.
Dimensions: Length 25.5mm, Width 35.0mm, Thickness 7.7mm, Weight 25.05g
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8E55C7
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed chisel or small axehead, the inner part of the socket and the cutting edge. The break is old but with some recent scuffing and much of the patinated surfaces have been lost, though casting seams are visible on both sides. The blade is not sharp. Weight 39.37g. Extant length 37.3mm. Width at cutting edge 32.3mm. Thickness 14.6mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Finder's number N2F1
Created on: Saturday 20th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-21F21C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
7 sherds, body apart from one possible basal, Rusticated Beaker pottery, reduced, thickness 8-16mm, weight 65g.
(in addition, 3 small, rounded pieces of fired silty clay, reduced pale grey, weight 12g, small fragments of animal bone, charcoal)
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-219F78
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 body sherd Beaker pottery with a diagonal grooved lattice, reduced with oxidised exterior, thickness 7mm, weight 4g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-218282
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
44 sherds Early to Middle Bronze Age grog tempered pottery, perhaps biconical urn, all body apart from one rim and three with basal angle, many with internal sooting, predominantly reduced, thickness 9-15.5mm, weight 518g
(in addition, many small, rounded pieces of fired silty clay, reduced pale grey, weight 94g).
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-25119C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bead-like object of unknown date. It is barrel-shaped, or like a sphere with a cap cut off at each pole by a pair of parallel planes, revealing the sub-circular openings of the internal void. The void is not quite cylindrical but appears to follow the external contour to some extent, being longitudinally concave and of wider diameter in the middle. The diameter of the openings seems too large to be a bead. It may be a collar for a rod-like implement. It is patinated dark brown.
Length (opening to opening): 15.1mm. External diameter: 18.2mm. Internal diameter of openings: …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FB90D8
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper alloy axe-chisel, The greater part of both faces retain their shiny surface or patina and there is no stop-bevel and the profile is lenticular. The straight sides, the butt and the cutting edge are badly scuffed, with damage to the latter, some quite recent, being especially severe. It is possible that all traces of low flanges have been removed through wear but on balance it is more likely that the object was flat. Despite its imperfact condtion it is safe to assign it to Needham's Class 3 (Needham 2017, 36-7 and 60). Weight 63.17g. Leng…
Created on: Monday 1st May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-55D8E2
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy tanged chisel with much ancient pockmarking and profuse less old and recent scuffing and fresh localised loss of patinated surfaces. What remains of the cutting edge is quite blunt. The tang is of rectangular cross-section and tapers from the stop or collar to what was probably a rounded terminal. Weight 10.04g. Length 53.3mm. Width at cutting edge 16.9mm. Thickness at collar 7.3mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC
Created on: Sunday 23rd April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-15355C
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable fragment of the tip of a Bronze Age axehead. It has two extant edges: part or all of the convex cutting edge (if all, then it was a very small axe) and a straight, or nearly straight worn break. The break is transverse when viewed from the front or rear face and oblique when viewed from either of the lateral ends. The fragment expands in thickness uniformly from the cutting edge to the break. This occurs mainly on one face and is much less pronounced on the other. c. 2350 to 800 B.C.
Length (measured transversely to the axe, along the cutting edge/break): 29.3mm. Width …
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FF1974
Object type: PLANO CONVEX KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Plano-convex knife, reshaped from an earlier (most likely Neolithic) hard hammer struck tertiary blade-like flake; the original surfaces of the earlier struck flint are patinated (to the dorsal face) slightly misty blue grey with the occasional spotty iron stain, the ventral face is much paler where the patination has leeched in more successfully, much of the lateral edges and the point have been carefully pressure flaked during the Early Bronze Age to convert the flake to the plano-convex knife, These flake scars are neatly flaked in sequence (pattern pressure flaked), especially to o…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
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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: SF-4556CD
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Bronze Age copper-alloy spiral twisted torc. The fragment is formed from a sub-square cross-sectioned bar that has been twisted into a spiral along its length. It is bent into a slight arc and there is a clean, cut break across each end. It survives in fairly good condition with patches of corrosion in places on the surface and no obvious signs of wear.
This spiral-twisted style of torc is a feature of the late middle Bronze Age 'ornament horizon', which is now placed in the Taunton and Penard metalwork phases c. 1400-1150 cal BC, with a partic…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-62FDF7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of the blade of a Middle Bronze Age spearhead, probably of the Acton or late Taunton Phase. There is nibbling and damage to the point and to the edges of the blade and a transverse break; the rest of this spearhead (in two parts) is recorded under PUBLIC-6DF96B, having been found by a different finder. Total weight 18.59g. Circa 1550BC-1150BC.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-A5A8AF
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a knife or dagger blade of bronze age date (c.BC 2000-800). The Object is lozenge shaped, sggesthing thatit could be from the raised centre of a blade, possible a sword. The object is heavily worn so any remanats of the blade's edge have been worn away and all that remains is this sub-circular fragment.
Dimensions: Diameter 22.0mm, Thickness 4.3mm, Weight 5.19g
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-A506C8
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy socketed axehead dating to the Bronze Age (c.1200-800 BC).
The fragment has a slight curve to it, giving the object a ‘C’ shaped cross section and very little of the object remains. The bottom edge of the fragment is straight and slightly thicker than the rest of the object, the opposite terminal is curved. The fragment is undecorated and has a stippled brown patina. It is possible the socket belonged to an axe or spearhead.
Dimensions: Length 26.2mm; width 20.6mm; thickness 7.4mm; weight 8.39g
The fragmentary condition of the axe h…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-A4CBCC
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an incomplete socketed axe head dating to the late Bronze Age (c.1000-750 BC).
The fragment is a piece from the socketed end of an axe head. It has a slight curve to it, giving the object a ‘C’ shaped cross section and very little of the object remains. The fragment is undecorated and has a smooth light green patina.
Dimensions: Length 20.9mm; width 21.9mm; thickness 5.9mm; weight 15.57g
The fragmentary condition of the axe head makes typological identification indeterminate.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
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-37CA51
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost-complete copper-alloy unlooped palstave of middle Bronze Age date (c. 1600-1400 BC), in very good condition. The blade is broadly sub-triangular, with relatively straight flaring sides which then curve sharply out to a curved convex cutting edge. One corner of this is squared off, apparently an original feature, but the other corner is missing (a very fresh, recent break).
The two faces of the axe are identical. There are three very neat breaks of slope towards the cutting edge and running parallel to it. The upper half of the slope, like the …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0FE7A1
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the butt-end of a middle to late Bronze Age copper-alloy palstave axehead in a heavily worn and corroded condition. It tapers in thickness from one end to the other and terminates in a worn break at both ends. Part of one of the flanges is extant, on one face only, with a broken or abraded edge. The fragment is better preserved on one face, where the surface remains flat. However, the other surfaces are now pitted and uneven. It is patinated pale green, with a dark grey deposit adhering within the surface hollows. 15th to 9th century B.C.
Length: 35.8mm. Width: 33.3 Thickn…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7EB31E
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper-alloy awl. The tang makes up a little over three fifths of the whole length and the blade makes up the remainder. The tang is rectangular (nearly square) in cross-section at its base and tapers to a flat point at the proximal end. The blade is approximately square in cross-section throughout and tapers in width and thickness to a blunted point at the distal end. The metal is patinated dark green and has suffered some pitting due to corrosion, particularly on one face.
Copper-alloy awls are generally thought of as Late Bronze Age in date, 1000 to 700 BC. Th…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E967A1
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the blade, including the pointed tip, of a Late Bronze Age copper-alloy sword of Ewart Park type. Approximately 200mm of its length is extant. From the worn transverse break it tapers convexly in width and apparently uniformly in thickness to the tip. In cross-section it is lenticular: each face has a broad central convexity, flanked on each side by a subtle and fine rib running close to (approximately 4mm) and parallel with the edges. Beyond this it tapers concavely to the relatively sharp edges.
It is in fairly fresh condition and has a glossy dark green patina on b…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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