Record ID: NMS-A39651
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic pointed ovate handaxe of Wymer's type E, unifacially and invasively knapped from a thermal or "potlid" fractured piece of white patinated flint, the dorsal (worked) face is patinated with a white "basket weave" with the original brown flint colour showing in-between, there is a small patch of worn and orange stained cortex where the flakes did not overlap towards the middle of this face. This type of handaxe are quickly made from any available small piece of flint and the knapping is focused usually to produce one sharp cutting edge over any attempt at symmetry, tho…
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D01F42
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly Late Upper Palaeolitich sub trinagular tertiary flint blade, soft hammer struck with a crushed platform. Brown flint with partial white patination. Measuring 43 x 16 x 4mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D01204
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Upper Palaeolithic tertiary flint blade, soft hammer struck from an opposed platform core. Now patinated mottled grey, slight recent damage. Measuring 93 x 33 x 8.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-39110C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe of type D (Wymer 1968, 1999.) Hard hammer struck from a suitable flat and slightly irregular nodule of mottled grey and black flint, now unpatinated; both faces have a patch of cortex extant, one appearing as a hollow where the flake removals did not succeed in being deep enough to level the concavity. All the edges and high points of the flake scars are heavily rolled. 143.5 x 80 x 37 mm. Weight: 432g. Found on beach. Recorded and sketched by the late Tony Gregory in 1975.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-5BF55E
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
'Handaxe' Dimensions 102 x 62 x 56mm. In blackish flint and of roughly plano-convex section, this biface can be considered as having a rounded butt end and an opposed pointed end, It has a small area of thin weathered cortex on the narrow crest but is otherwise flaked overall. With the pointed end away from the observer, the right side face is formed by two large flake removals and two smaller, the left face by one large removal and several smaller ones. The 'base' has a number of smaller removals and a line of battering along its length The condition is rolled except for the po…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-5BFD70
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade which appears to be struck with a soft hammer from a single platform core. Flake directions are difficult to observe as the piece is heavily patinated white with some small areas of spotty iron staining. The proximal end is missing, broken recently and revealing unpatinated black flint. One lateral edge has been steeply retouched along its length at a later date, perhaps during the Neolithic or Bronze Age and has a light grey patination. Such re-use is uncommon, but not unknown. It shows that this piece had been lost or discarded and found several th…
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0638A8
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Measuring 210 x 115 x 37mm. This is a very large handaxe, probably one of the largest ever recorded from Norfolk. Although long and wide, the handaxe is relatively slim and has a profile that suggests that it may have been made on an enormous primary flake, or more likely a large, flat nodule of flint. It is finished by large invasive flake removals around the whole perimeter except at the point, where the flake scars are relatively small. Heavily patinated, weathered cortex remains to one face where the flake scars failed to overlap, a couple of …
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentney area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A3D843
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic flint hand axe in mottled brown flint. Plano-convex, heavy butted, pointed tip missing, the break patinated light brown. Fresh, unrolled condition with only slight damage to edges. Surviving length 152mm. Maximum width 90mm. Maximum thickness 38mm.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-834325
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late palaeolithic double-ended scraper. Segment of a large blade with a single crest in a chocolate brown stained flint. Both ends appear to have been steeply retouched to give a double ended scraper but both have suffered ancient damage. The distal edge has small neat retouch scars at both ends but the central part of the edge has two larger scars with evidence of crushing on the ventral side. The proximal end appears to have been damaged by the loss of a large chip and shows slight evidence of crushing on the ventral edge. The find spot is near one of the head ways of the River Wens…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.