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Record ID: NMS-1C0B02
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible broken end of flint blade. Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Surviving length 34mm.
Created on: Friday 7th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D4B883
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze discoidal core of unpatinated grey flint, both faces covered in flake scars, with one small patch of cortex remaining. Length 53mm, width 51mm, thickness 25mm.
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CD62D4
Object type: PICK
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint pick. Dimensions 416 x 66 x 49mm. Brown staining over dark grey / black flint. Rhombic section with sharp ridge on one face, largely formed by a natural cleavage plane (ancient frost fracture), the other face flaked entirely with a more rounded medial ridge. The dark brown patination suggests a probable peaty deposition, there is a trace of concretion on one face, most likely an accumulation of iron oxides and grit. All flake scars appear to be fairly hard hammer struck with some removals exhibiting a deep negative bulbs of percussion. At one end an impact ha…
Created on: Friday 11th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-24DBF2
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary, hard hammer struck flint flake with grey patination and cortex on striking platform. Length 22mm. Undiagnostic Late prehistoric.
Created on: Friday 25th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-118202
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic (?)quartzite polished stone axehead with irregular oval section. Heavily damaged at blade and but end from re-use as a hammer stone or crushing tool. Surviving length 117mm. Maximum surviving width 63mm. Maximum surviving thickness 40mm. 4000 - 2350 BC.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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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-F6F473
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Polished Axe, dimensions: 169 x 61 x 34mm. Highly ground and polished all over, with only a few faint flake scars visible at the lateral edges and rounded butt: the sides are ground round rather than flat. The curved cutting edge is sharp with only one ancient chip, while a recent small chip reveals pale grey flint. The axe is patinated light brown with some buff areas. Found in the 1960's and subsequently used as a paperweight. Neolithic (4,000 to 2,350BC)
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wretton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-07ABE7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic polished flint axehead. Lenticular in section, polished overall but with a few flake scars still visible. Cutting edge curved and sharp, sides tapering towards narrow, straight butt. There is relatively fresh damage in the form of a large natural flake at the cutting edge on one face, and a small flake at the butt end revealing pale yellow-brown flint. The surface of the flint is patinated pale grey with few iron stains. Length 203mm, width 76mm, thickness 55mm. Weight 968g. Similar to NHER 56013 and also PAS (NMS-4C43C4). 3000-2351 BC.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
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Record ID: NMS-92F628
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Polished axe in dark grey mottled glossy flint with negligible patination. Polished extensively on one face from the broad blade up the central area to the square butt and with one lateral edge rounded slightly along its whole length, the other only toward the butt. The opposed face is only polished at the extreme edge of the cutting edge and is otherwise neatly finished by shallow re-touch flaking. The elegant shape suggests that this is a flint copy of an Early Bronze Age flat axe, and the shallow invasive flaking is also typical of this transitional period. Almost certainly Late Ne…
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2004
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-A688DD
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven Neolithic to Bronze Age secondary and tertiary simple flake tools and debitage of unpatinated and white patinated flint. Largest: 61 x 21 x 7 mm. Smallest: 36 x 15 x 4 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A67B99
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age fabricator made from a found hard hammer struck white and light grey patinated tertiary piece of debitage, this was reworked with steep retouch mostly to the dorsal face at a later date. These flake removals show the original unpatinated dark grey flint. Fabricators are thought to be part of a fire lighting kit; the flint being struck with a piece of Marcasite to produce sparks. 78 x 29 x 14 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A66E4D
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Neolithic tertiary semi-hard hammer struck flake tool of white patinated light grey flint with small areas of spotty iron staining and with irregular steep retouch to both edges and the distal end. 55 x 30 x 6 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A64A87
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five Neolithic to Bronze Age tertiary and secondary hard hammer struck simple flake tools and debitage, of including two notched blade-like flakes. All are of mottled grey flint. Largest: 64 x 23 x 8 mm. Smallest: 18 x 10 x 2.5 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A63E1B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to Bronze Age secondary hard hammer struck scraper, of unpatinated mottled grey flint with steep retouch forming the scraping edge. 46 x 41 x 13 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A6132B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age secondary hard hammer struck "thumbnail" scraper, of unpatinated mottled grey flint with steep retouch to all edges. 37 x 29 x 11.5 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5F4D4
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of Neolithic to Bronze Age unpatinated mottled grey simple hard hammer struck secondary and tertiary flake tools including six end and side scrapers; one with a notch towards the distal end, and five tertiary notched blade-like flakes, and one piece of tertiary debitage of pale grey flint. Largest: 72 x 34 x 9 mm. Smallest: 27 x 14 x 3.5 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A42262
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic to Bronze Age secondary hard hammer struck flake of unpatinated mottled brown flint with steep retouch to part of one edge. Measuring 43 x 25 x 8 mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A3BED6
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic tertiary hard hammer struck blade-like flake of mottled grey and brown flint; the distal end is broken transversely in antiquity. Measuring 36 x 25 x 10mm.
Created on: Monday 4th July 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A0E443
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic axe of patinated pale buff mottled flint with spotty iron staining to most of the high points of the flake scars. Mostly complete with old differentially patinated damage to the sides of the cutting edge and one lateral edge. The axe has been partly ground although not to any great degree. Only the very peaks have been smoothed off towards the cutting edge and the mid-ridge. 131 x 56.5 x 26mm
Created on: Monday 17th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2016
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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
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