Record ID: NMS-6F0812
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Beaker period barbed and tanged arrowhead of semi-translucent fine quality flint with no rough inclusions, now patinated an attractive orange colour. The piece is missing both barbs and the tip with some minor damage to both lateral edges. All breaks appear to be ancient. This is unfortunate as the shape of the barbs are the defining characteristic for Green's typology (1980). Both faces are competently pressure flaked with overlapping flake scars. Although fragmentary it is likely to belong to Conygar Hill, Sutton, or Green Low types of arrowhead. 2300-1700 BC. Measu…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

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-5BDEDC
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic broken part-polished axe of unpatinated mottled grey flint with some small areas of spotty iron staining, approximately half survives. The butt was broken off in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture which has plunged over on to one face removing a large flake. Reconstructed length around 180mm. 92 x 70 x 32mm.
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5BC395
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic broken unpolished axe head butt end, broken in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture. It is of mottled grey lightly patinated flint with spotty iron staining and a patch of cortex survives on one face where the axe is constricting towards the ( now missing) cutting edge. Reconstructed length around 125mm. 99 x 43 x 25.5mm.
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A4083
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large hand held boring tool or possible pointed "fabricator" made on a core of surface flint of unusual dark reddish colour with a large area of pale cortex remaining at the butt end. The flint exhibits natural thermal fractures which have been enhanced by first invasively flaking and then a second row of steep flaking to form a point at one end. Most of the flakes have been removed from both lateral edges of one face and the edges themselves are heavily abraded from use although the tip is fairly fresh and unworn, suggesting its use as a rotary boring tool for enlarging holes ra…
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-1CC105
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint adze. Longitudinal curve partially formed by a large scar from natural shatter flake pre-knapping, some partial polishing towards the curved blade, straight sides tapering twards the rounded butt. Differential patination with one face appearing dark grey / black and the other paler, cloudy grey. Neolithic, perhaps late Neolithic. Length 128mm. Maximum width 53mm. Maximum thickness 18mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-1EFAE4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age very unusual and simple arrowhead, with tang but no barbs, apparently made on a fortuitously shaped flake fragment which only required bilateral and bifacial retouch at one end to form a sharp point. Unpatinated. Probably Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, when barbed and tanged arrowheads were in use.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A3F0A4
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic or Neolithic flint axehead. Curved cutting edge, tapering through elongated S-curved profile and sides to butt. Sub-trinagular or D-shaped section, the apex changing from one face to the other with the S-curve. Poor quality, pale grey patinated flint. Maximum width 45mm. Maximum thickness 22mm. Length 161mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A3B083
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint axe, found around 1952 - 56, of elongated, narrow-butted form, and of lenticular section with straight lateral edges tapering immediately from the cutting edge, all of the larger knapping scars are completely ground and polished out over the whole surface, with particularly fine polishing around the gently curved cutting edge. It is of patinated pale mottled grey flint, with some rusty scrapes from iron agricultural implements. Maximum width (at cutting edge) 48mm. Maximum thickness 16mm. Length 203mm. Similar elongated axeheads with narrow butts have been found …
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Sunday 30th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-FD09E0
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unfinished neolithic flint axehead, or possibly a fabricator. Bi-facially worked dark grey flint, patinated pale grey over about half the surface, triangular-sectioned, with an unworked, blunt edge at the slightly wider end where the cutting edge would be expected. Slightly narrowed butt end. Length 109mm. Maximum width 41.5mm. Maximum thickness 23mm.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-692273
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete butt end of a Neolithic flint axehead or adze. Mottled pale grey lightly patinated flint with some spotty iron staining. Breaks may have occurred during manufacture or use. Length 100mm. 44mm Wide. 25.5mm thick.
Created on: Friday 5th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th September 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4C9651
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Transect 3/4. Two Mesolithic - Neolithic flint bladelets, 30 and 32mm long. One Mesolithic - Neolithic twisted blade with heavy retouch along one edge forming a concave side scraper / notch. 44 x 16 x 4mm. Three large, tertiary Neolithic flakes (one broken), with some retouch / use wear or damage. The largest 78 x 47 x 10mm. Eleven Neolithic - Bronze Age flint flakes, some with use wear / damage. One Early Bronze Age unfinished barbed and tanged arrowhead. Sub-triangular flake with invasive pressure flaking scars around edges. 36 x 33.5 x 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2013
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Record ID: NMS-487D63
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic - Neolithic flint axehead roughout (failed). 124 x 43 x 31mm.
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B54E54
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Neolithic projectile point or leaf shaped arrowhead constructed on a tertiary flake with minimal pressure flaking. Pale brown, unpatinated flint. Green (1980, 72, fig.29) type 4. Length 32mm. Width 20mm. Thickness 4.5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-50C8A6
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Bronze Age (Beaker period) flint dagger. Tip missing, some minor damage to edges, possible opposed single notches 2/3rds along length from tip. Butt damaged by a transverse bending fracture. Soft hammer struck and pressure flaked around edges. Light grey flint with some spotty iron staining. 2300 - 1700 BC. A more complete but un-notched example was found at Feltwell, Norfolk in 1962 (HER 5163). See http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF5163-Beaker-period-dagger-and-prehistoric-axehead&Index=2&RecordCount=1&SessionID=300e56ec-3abe-4725-9425-990f8d8…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dickleburgh and Rushall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4256B5
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic prismatic single platform core, mottled grey flint, recent damage to platform and on one face. Some cortex remaining. Height 46mm. Diameter 39 - 44mm.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-424A83
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint axehead, lenticular in section, part polished, damaged in antiquity, cutting edge missing. Some minor damage to the edges. Some cortex remaining on butt. Length 153mm. Width 46mm. Maximum thickness (in centre) 22mm.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

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-69A2A3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic flint axehead, dark brown on one face, sandy brown on the other. Lozengiform-section becoming lentoid towards the blade. Cortex covers the but end. Polished over all, the flake scars polished out completely near the blade. Length 123mm. Maximum width 53mm. Thickness 31mm.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7A6853
Object type: SICKLE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Sickle Blade. 64mm long . Curved fragment from a primary flake with blunting retouch on the convex edge and some retouch and serrations on the concave edge with traces of gloss. Possibly part of a composite sickle or used alone as a hand held tool. Incipient patination on the ventral face. Neolithic. A4.
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.