NHER 11950 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age palstaves

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Summary

The Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography holds two Bronze Age palstaves that may have come from Southery.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish SOUTHERY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

'On or near the Chain Farm, Brandon Creek' (not on Ordnance Survey). Exact spot unknown.
Looped palstave found.
Now in Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.
Information from Ordnance Survey card.

(S1) gives two palstaves in Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography from Brandon Creek which he calls
'Southery, Cambs'. One is No.52.4, probably the above, the other is No.45.31. Are they from different sites, and are they from the Norfolk or Cambs part of Brandon Creek?
E. Rose (NAU) 22 June 1982.

(S1) is wrong, according to Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.

45.31 is simply Norfolk unprovenanced, 52.4 is the above object, but no indication in Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography records as to whether it is from Cambs or Norfolk. It was donated by Hastings Museum.
E. Rose (NAU) 30 July 1982.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 69 SW 11 [2].
  • <S1> Monograph: Rowlands, M. J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. British Archaeological Report. No 31.
  • PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 23 2019 12:17PM

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