Record ID: NMS-9A9212
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy chisel, rectangular-sectioned, spike for insertion into tang at one end, gently flaring to damaged blade at other end, 9mm, length 60mm.
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland, Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-90CAB7
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age incomplete copper alloy sword. Three fragments of blade were found on arable land on both sides of a stream, almost certainly as a result of spreading after dredging. Very corroded showing linear traces of vegetable matter, broken, now in three joining pieces (42 x at least 294mm), heavily notched edges to blade, slightly bent at tip. None of the breaks is recent.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FB0A17
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl. It is square in section at the centre and tapers to a rectangular-sectioned shank which is flaring slightly to the broken end. The other end is circular-sectioned and tapers to a broken point. Its length is at least 48mm.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01D7D8
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age razor, incomplete, probably originally crescent shaped. Blade tapers towards corroded cutting edge, broken at both ends, at least 5 (two complete) open-work triangles at top of body in line with concave back. Corrosion pattern on top of razor back suggest further projections, now missing. At least 32 x 39mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8F03C2
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Duplicate record. Please see NMS-01D7D8 for details of the find previously recorded here.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 19th September 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-A51432
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Awl. Slightly curved, pointed and circular sectioned at one end, thickening towards centre, clearly defined change to rectangular section, tapering to narrow chisel-like end. Length 57mm, maximum thickness 6.7mm, width of chisel end 2mm. Similar examples from Flag Fen (Coombs in Pryor, 2001, 266, fig. 10.6, no. 65 – 68).
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B3D123
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of socketed axe. Slightly curved blade (48mm wide), possibly rectangular body at least 32mm long, at least 13.5mm wide. Ancient breaks, dark brown patina flaking off in places, original cutting edge missing. Weighing 54.34g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Saturday 3rd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-23E5E6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Objects found by M. Dover on 4/9/05, from a scattered Late Bronze Age hoard discovered in October 1995. The site was excavated on 14/12/96. Previous finds comprise eight socketed axes, two sword blade fragments, one sword hilt fragment, two fragments of cake, and a casting jet no.15 Terminal of sword hilt joining fragment found in 1995. The recent break is across a rivet hole. Length 38mm, width 40mm. Weight 23.57g. no.16 Tip of sword blade joining smaller blade fragment found in 1995. This joins the larger. None of the breaks in recent, but that at the broad end of the larger frag…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27F534
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbed and tanged arrowhead. Sutton type, with pointed barbs and rounded tang, the point is intact. Large area on each face of original flake from which it was formed, both lateral edges flaked bifacially. Thickness 4mm. Probably a hunting loss as this is an arrowhead intended for use. Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BE02A4
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of gold sheet strip, one straight end complete, the other missing. Throughout its length one long edge is folded over by 1 - 1.5mm. Eight longitudinal grooves cover the remainder of the object apart from a narrow strip along the other edge, which was probably once also folded over. Possibly Bronze Age.
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-262A62
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age, 1400-1200 BC. Measuring >30 x >113mm. Fragment of copper alloy rapier. The blade is broken at both ends with the remains of two rivet-holes in the hafting-plate. There is a flat median rib and the edges are damaged. A palstave (without loop, with a shield pattern on the blade which is defined on the sides by shoulders, measuring 135mm long, blade width 64mm, max. width of butt 22mm. Cf. Savory, 1980, 169, fig.21, no.148 for a similar example) was found at the same site in 1990, and it is therefore possible that these two items are part of a hoard.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27D9C2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sword fragment - Tip of blade with very straight sides and flattened oval in section. Bevelled for the cutting edge, which is slightly damaged along both sides. Light brown patination, except near the break where the blade is slightly bent and the surface green and slightly corroded. Width at break 35mm, length at least 117mm. Spear - Tip of socketed spear, broken before base of socket. The median rib is prominent and the edges bevelled. The tip is bent sideways in a slight curve. Most of the surface is covered with orange-brown patination or corrosion, which also covered the break.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-1E6A46
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description 1. Socketed axe - South-eastern type. Sub-rectangular double mouth moulding of which the upper moulding is prominent whilst the lower gives rise to the loop on the side of the body. The body is plain and undecorated with relatively few pits running down to a flared blade. One blade corner has broken and corroded away. The patina is light brown with light green corrosion L: 99.0mm; W: 39.0-48.0mm; Wt: 331.1g (with earth remaining in the socket) 2. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Dark green patina with green corrosion wi…
Created on: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1CC4D6
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of mouth of socket of spearhead, broken across a peg hole. The fractures are not ancient. This object is number 41 of a hoard reported as Treasure Case 2008 T95. Late Bronze Age. Length 24.5mm. External diameter 24mm. Weight. 4.63g. For other objects in the hoard see NMS-EE8264 (nos. 1-40) and NMS-CA57D7 (nos. 42-5).
Created on: Monday 6th July 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-30B786
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The original find of the Bawdeswell hoard, consisting of a socketed knife and two socketed axes, all of late Bronze Age date. 1. Fragment of socketed knife. Rectangular sectioned socket with very slightly concave sides and broken across a hole in either face for hafting. The lower edge of the socket is concave on either face where it joins the pointed oval sectioned blade. The edges of the blade are damaged and the blade is broken transversely. All the breaks are ancient. Total length at least 40mm. Socket length least 22mm, width 27mm, thickness 10mm. Length of blade at lea…
Created on: Thursday 5th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F8C4F1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age hoard consisting of; A copper alloy Socketed chisel with a circular-sectioned socketed end, becoming rectangular-sectioned where solid and tapering to a blunt end. There is corroded casting flaw protruding from the internal face of the socket which would have prevented the handle from being inserted below this point. Measuring 18 x 133mm. Weighing 90.43g. Cf. an example from the Burton Upon Stather hoard illustrated in Inventoria Archaeologia, GB.23, 3 (3), no.14. c.1000 - c.700 BC. A copper alloy socketed axe head. Moulded at the sub-rectangular mouth, with a second,…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7B59C7
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age hoard. An incomplete harness mount. A rectangular plate (1mm thick) with a slight rim at the surviving original edge, and with remains of decoration comprising three transverse vertical ribs in shallow relief between two discs, one with a central dot within five concentric grooves, the other a fragment of the outer grooves only. There is an integral loop on the reverse aligned with and adjacent to the surviving original edge. There are old breaks on the two ends with a more recent looking break on the longer edge. Length greater than 30mm, width …
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-126827
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Summary: Bronze Age hoard consisting of 191 objects including wood and cloth. The finds were found with a metal detector in the ploughsoil over an area at least 30ft. across, and the site was subsequently excavated by Andrew Rogerson. The site was ridged for asparagus immediately prior to the first discovery. During excavation, the surface was removed to reveal an almost square pit (300 x 300mm) cut into natural orange clay to a depth of 90mm. The very clearly defined edges of the cut indicate that the pit was not left open for a great length of time. The upper surface was ba…
Created on: Monday 17th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FA07B1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The tip of a socketed spearhead. The edges of the bevelled blade and tip are worn and damaged, and the break across the circular sectioned socket is ancient. Surviving length 42mm. Maximum surviving width 22mm. Maximum surviving thickness 10.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 9th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-26F828
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two middle Bronze Age items comprising a hoard. A Middle Bronze Age palstave with one loop, straight stop ridge of ledge type projecting above the flanges. Below the ledge a shield-shaped raised area with two roughly leaf-shaped depressions. Concave sided blade expansion. Casting-seam down both sides. Recent damage to one flange. Older damage to cutting edge but otherwise in crisp condition. Length 172mm. Width 72.5mm. Thickness 38mm. Weight 622g. A Middle Bronze Age fragment of the butt of a rapier, corner with one rivet. Measuring at least 33 x at least 35mm. Rivet length …
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.