NHER 11255 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age socketed axehead (Swaffham, poorly located)

The Norfolk Heritage Explorer is a filtered version of the Norfolk HER intended for casual research. Please to consult the full record.

See also further .

Summary

It is recorded that before 1974 a looped and socketed Bronze Age axehead was recovered from the parish of Swaffham, and is now in the British Museum.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish SWAFFHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Pre 1974.
Looped and socketed axe. British Museum (Prehistoric and Romano-british Antiquities) Wellcome Collection.

Above information given to E. Rose (NAU), approximately 1975 by a member of British Museum staff. In mid 1974 Wellcome Collection bronzes had not been sorted so E. Rose (NAU), could not check them, but Wellcome catalogue referred simply to 'a bronze axe from Norfolk'. It is possible however that there had been some confusion with the axe in British Museum from site NHER 2663, which was not registered until 1976 but which may have come in earlier, as
PRBA (Prehistoric and Romano-british Antiquities) staff in 1980 could not find the above axe according to A.
Lawson (NAU).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 16 July 1980.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Swaffham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Jan 3 2026 7:42PM

Comments and Feedback

Your feedback is welcome; if you can provide any new information about this record, please contact the Norfolk Historic Environment Record.