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-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-D7D2A9
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper-alloy spearhead of Middle or Late Bronze Age date (c. 1600-800 BC). It has a circular-section socket which survives to c. 9mm deep; the line of the socket then forms a wide, thick solid midrib running all the way to the point. There is a flat wing to either side of the midrib, each tapering with straight edges towards the point. The very tip of the point has broken off (worn break). The wings and socket are broken (worn breaks) part of the way along the spearhead's outward flare, so it is not easy to tell the original size of the object. Both …
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14243D
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, short, and stout flat axehead, of Needham. S, (2017) class 4E or F, most of the flat rectangular butt survives, curving out very slightly to a thicker centre section which has very slight flanges to both sides on both faces. The axe then curves out sharply to a wide cutting edge, most of which is now missing due to corrosion, the smooth olive-green polished surface is what remains of the original surfaces, largely corroded and pitted, mostly to one face and the extremities of the axe. Cf. NMS-6620F2 for a similar axe. Length 76.0mm, maximum surviving width 44.7mm, max…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B9F82A
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age chisel. It has an incomplete circular-section socket, 15mm in diameter, which is cylindrical externally but apparently slightly conical internally, so that the metal is thinnest at the break and thicker further into the socket. The socket is c. 39mm deep, and at this point externally the cylinder has a concave curve on two surfaces to taper into a rectangular-section solid blade. This is c. 5mm thick and each edge has a gentle convex curve to a point, which therefore would originally have had a 5mm sharp edge. The patina is a smooth brown, with areas brok…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 17th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-361B9B
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy awl, probably of late Bronze Age date. It is circular in cross-section for just over half its length, and then flattens to a rectangular cross-section. The circular-section area tapers gently and smoothly from 5.0mm in diameter in the centre to 3.8mm in diameter at the end, which has a worn break. The rectangular-section area maintains the width, flaring slightly to 5.4mm, but flattens to 1.5mm thick at the blunt, perhaps incomplete, chisel-like end, which is slightly curved in the direction of one of the larger faces. This bend has not caused any stress to …
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F25F04
Object type: ANVIL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Substantial Bronze Age anvil, solid cast sub-cuboid head with an elongated sub-oval sectioned spike or beak/bec, the top of the head is gabled, one side longer than the other creating an off-centre arris with two working surfaces approximately 110 degrees from each other. All faces of the head and beak are intentionally slightly convex, one of the faces set at 90 degrees to the spike has a sub-circular rough divot in alignment to the arris on top, this is very likely to be the remains of a second beak/spike that has broken in antiquity, presumably through use. The remaining original su…
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-75BFEA
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very corroded flat axehead of early Bronze Age date. Apart from the corrosion and total loss of surface, it appears complete. The butt is 27.5mm wide, and the axe then flares with very gently concave edges for most of its length. Close to the other end it flares out in a more noticeable curve, to rounded corners and a gently curving cutting edge which is 53.6mm wide. The cross-section flares from 2-2.5mm thick at the butt to a maximum of 13.0mm thick in the centre. The axehead is 88.5mm long and weighs 223g. It is slightly larger than, for example, LVPL-4DA982; and compares …
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3D0CDA
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Palstave axe of Middle Bronze Age date (c. 1,600 to 1,400 BC), of typical non side-looped form with a "shield" shaped moulding immediately below the stop ridge. The H shaped hafting channels at the butt are well developed with high side flanges to support the split wood handle, the end of the butt terminates in an oblique angle, this is most likely due to a casting flaw at the top of the mould, it looks unlikely that this is post-depositional damage. The axe is complete, though there are small losses to the thin cutting edge. Most of the surfaces are patinated dark brown, indicative …
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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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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Record ID: NMS-F6980E
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy flanged axehead of early Bronze Age date, Needham 1983, class 5db. It has low flanges, with a very smoothly polished green surface between. Most of the edges (butt, cutting edge, much of the flanges) are fragmentary. It is smaller than usual, with a length of 65mm, width at corroded cutting edge of 32mm, maximum thickness 13mm. Weight 77.40g. This type of flanged axehead is uncommon. Compare a larger example found in a hoard and recorded at NMGW-0B9997.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-775AAE
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late Bronze Age socketed axehead. About half survives, now squashed flat. There is a crack down both sides, and the axe has apparently been deliberately hammered flat, although there are no visible hammer marks. The break across the centre is old and worn. It measures 30.5mm across the broken edge, and 45mm wide at most. The fragment is 49mm long and a maximum of 11mm thick, and weighs 72.37g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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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: NMS-6FB233
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age awl. One end is flat in cross-section, and gradually thickens to a circular cross-section of diameter 3mm about halfway down the object. It is slightly bent here, causing stress to the metal and loss of the surface. From here it tapers to a point. Where the surface is lost, the colour is a matt green; where the surface survives it is a polished dark brown. Length (as bent) 52mm, maximum width (at flat end) 5mm, maximum thickness 3mm, weight 3.17g. Similar awls were made throughout the middle and late Bronze Age, but the dark brown patina suggests a middle Bronze Age da…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C6A634
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy blade, perhaps a small knife (as SOM-BCDC68) or possibly a fragment of rapier. It is very worn and corroded, with all edges worn away and a lot of corrosion bubbles on the pitted surface. It is a long oval in shape, with both ends broken and/or worn so that they run straight across. The cross-section is pointed-oval, a maximum of 3.5mm thick in the centre where there is a very slight bulge to a barely-visible midrib. It flattens away from the centre, with one end 3mm thick and the other 2.5mm thick. The surviving width, with all edges worn, is 14mm and the surviving…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-723CE5
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, very corroded, scuffed and battered externally so that little if any of the external surface survives. The cross-section is D-shaped, at most 5mm thick and 7mm wide. The inner face is much better preserved and appears very slightly convex. The internal diameter is very regular and 24mm in diameter. The external diameter was at least 33mm, but as so little of the surface now survives it may originally have been 35mm in external diameter or more. It weighs 16.69g. The patina is a pale green, characteristic of a Bronze Age to Roman date. Compare LIN-79D787.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-A0C513
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. 5mm in diameter. The constriction measures c. 5mm in thickness and 8mm in width. 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 strongly curved upper surface of each half is decorated with worn ridges and groo…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-91C2C0
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Bronze Age sword blade. It is 28mm wide, with worn edges. The cross-section is pointed-oval, a maximum of 5mm thick, in the centre. The fragment is 26mm long and all breaks are worn. it weighs 17.12g.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7DFA29
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Bronze Age copper-alloy tapering blade, perhaps a rapier, spearhead or arrowhead. The lower break is across a rounded oval midrib measuring perhaps 5 x 5.5mm in cross-section. The midrib then runs up the fragment and is flanked by incomplete cutting edges. All breaks are worn. Surviving length 27.5mm, surviving width 13mm, weight 4.7g.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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