Record ID: NMS-D2D067
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green. H, S, (1980) type Sutton b, closest in outline to examples i and j (page 122, fig. 45), of off-white patinated flint with the numerous small inclusions within the flint a mid-grey colour, one face has three small spots of rusty iron, probably from contact with agricultural machinery. One barb is nearly complete; possibly the tiny tip is missing, the other barb is chipped at the tip, this is an ancient break as one of the iron stains is on the surface of the break, the tang is broken obliquely but would have been little longer than t…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.