Record ID: NMS-65A2F7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age gold pendant: one end of a slightly bent round-sectioned shank has been hammered into a D-sectioned loop, while the other expands into a conical terminal on which another object may have swivelled. Formerly described as probably Roman, it has been reassigned, by Caroline Barton and Ben Roberts of the British Museum, to the Late Bronze Age on the basis of its similarity to a copper alloy example in the Boughton Malherbe (Kent) hoard (PAS KENT-15A293). Length 34mm. Width of loop 5.5mm. Diameter of shank 2 - 1.5mm. Diameter of terminal 3mm. Weight 1.89g. 9th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

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-C3FEF2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete gold ingot, long with rounded ends and oval cross-section. One surface is smooth with a few large dents; the other is pitted with very many small dents. One end is slightly wider and substantially thicker due to a rise in the pitted surface; the smoother surface is fairly flat. The colour is very slightly pale, suggesting a relatively impure gold. Dimensions: Length, 40.9mm. Maximum width, 13.3mm. Maximum thickness, 8.8mm. Weight 37.39g.  Discussion: This ingot is quite distinctive; it is long, with rounded ends and cross-section, o…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4BEA51
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Badly abraded fragment of a very small Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead, both ends missing. Length 45mm. Width 22.5mm. Thickness 7.5mm. c.2350 - c.1500 BC. CRP 28/1
Created on: Friday 7th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-866101
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy sword handle, both ends broken in antiquity, one across a rivet hole. There is much recent scuffing on both breaks and both edges. All patination has been lost. Extant length and width 26.5 and 20.8mm. Thickness 6.1mm. Weight 10.8g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-31977B
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. Apart from the mouth itself all of the edge is smooth and rounded. There are traces of longitudinal ribbing on the exterior. Probably debris from miscasting rather than an abraded shattered piece. Extant length and width 39.4 and 18.3mm. Weight 13.14g. c.1000 - c.700 BC. Field RG2
Created on: Friday 29th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9B50E3
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy razor with a short and apparently complete tang and the distal part of the lead-shaped blade missing. The patination is brown as is the break. Piggott 1946, Class I. Extant length 39.4mm. Width 18.4mm. Thickness 1.3mm. Weight 3.33g. c.1000 - c.700 BC. Field T4
Created on: Saturday 28th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-BA30A6
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of a copper alloy blade, probably a Middle Bronze Age rapier, very thin and with a crisply defined midrib. In fresh condition but with edge damage and with the point missing. Perhaps Burgess and Gerlof 1981, Group IV, Type Cutts, Variant Kilrea (pl.105, no. 845). Extant length, width and thickness 16.8, 10.2 and 2.4mm. Weight 1.09g. c.1600 - c.1000 BC.
Created on: Monday 10th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-48F7A9
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe with the cutting edge and the base of the socket, in quite fresh condition and quite sharp. The break is granular and not worn but is partly covered in ferrous staining. Extant length 25.5mm. Width 39.7mm. Thickness 9.8mm. Weight 34.36g. c.1000 - c.700 BC. Finder's DW-P 109
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EAF577
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead, one transverse break immediately before the inner end of the socket and another before the tip. Both cutting edges have been lost. All breaks are old. Weight 15.05g. Extant length and width 49.3 and 12.8mm. c.1600 - c.1000 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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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-53722F
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl comprising a rectangular-sectioned tang and a sub-circular-sectioned blade. Length 49.2mm. Maximum thickness 5mm. Weight 4.13g. c.1000 to c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9983BB
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hilt of a Late Bronze Age copper alloy sword, slightly bent and with both ends missing. Neither break is recent but the surface of the wider end is less granular and more worn. There are low flanges along the sides. No rivet hole or slot is extant. Length 31.2mm. Width 19.2 - 20.7mm. Thickness 5.8 - 6.2mm. Weight 22.44g. c.1100 - c.800 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D5CFA6
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl. The tang is square in cross-section and has lost its terminal in a recent break. The cross-section of the blade is sub-square as it leaves the tang but soon becomes round. It has been bent into a curve just before the point. Weight 6.34g. Extant length 64mm. Width 5mm. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Monday 18th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B0C7AA
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy palstave of type Carleton, middle Bronze Age date, Taunton phase (c. 1400-1100 BC), complete except for much of the cutting edge. When viewed from the side, the flanges are rounded. Down one side is a narrow casting seam with hammer marks across it; in the centre of the opposite side is a side-loop. Viewed from the front or back, the butt and the septum are rectangular. One face has a small casting flaw, a hole in one side of the septum by the stop.On both of the main faces there is a trident moulding just below the stop; this consists of thr…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: DUR-1B2FA1
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete gold penannular ring dating to the late Bronze Age (c.1000-800BC). The ring has been manufactured from a sub-circular copper alloy bar over, which a thin sheet of gold has been applied and hammered flat, thus giving the appearance of being made of solid gold. It has been decorated with silver, or silver rich gold wire, which covers the ring in a continuous spiral giving a striped effect. The stripes are extremely thin and measure about 0.8mm in maximum width, whilst the gold sheet is approximately 0.25mm thick (measured at the damaged terminal). The gap b…
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham area', grid reference and parish protected.

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-A1B392
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age composite penannular gold ring, now almost straightened, comprising two ribs formed from separate c-sectioned bars with convex upper faces and hollow on the reverse, joined longitudinally. One end is complete and unbroken, the other slightly distorted, the join between the two ribs separated at the terminal, but either cut very neatly or also complete. Penannular rings with c-sectioned ribs are a well-known Middle Bronze Age artefact type. For similar rings see LIN-D7E6D1 and ESS-E9CCB4 (two ribs), BERK-A5FFE5 and HER43133, Norfolk (multiple linked rings), ESS-CB3683…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ACBFA4
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Slightly distorted Middle Bronze Age gold penannular composite ring formed from three D-sectioned strips of gold probably soldered together and now separating at several points, with straight, blunt terminals. Each of the D-sectioned strips has slightly raised edges internally. Width of band 8.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. External measurement of ring 15 x 14mm. Weight 3.8g. Composite penannular rings formed from C-sectioned, D-sectioned or sub-circular strips or bars, are a well known Middle Bronze Age artefact type as single finds or forming part of sets of linked rings. See for example NM…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E93EBA
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Penannular ring of probable Bronze Age date, probably from a composite (multiple strand) ring. It is C-shaped in cross-section, with a convex outer and a concave interior. The width of the ring is very consistent but the two ends do not sit quite in line, as if the ring has been slightly bent out of shape. There is a c. 1.5mm gap between the two ends, one of which is slightly incurved and the other slightly outcurved, as if they once joined. The top and bottom edges are neat and parallel, but one is more highly polished than the other, which has a narrow roughened str…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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