NHER 15915 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age hoard, flint and metal finds
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CRANWICH, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Full Description
About 1932..Found together during ploughing.
Late Bronze Age hoard: two socketed axes, palstave, four pieces cake or scrap.
1905. Same location.
'Ornamented bronze celt' (probably triple ribbed palstave, looped and'small bronze with six spikes on top' (casting jet).
Also possibly from this location;
Bronze brooch and ring. Finds in Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.
For full details see report in file by A. Lawson (NAU) March 1980.
From information given in file this must also be the findspot of the white patinated polished discoidal knife 'Found between Weeting and Mundford near cross roads to Weeting at corner of which stands building belonging to school of forestry; in trench dividing two fields planted in 1932 by School of Forestry. Bought from Morely RR Clarke' formerly wrongly entered under NHER 5594.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 February 2000.
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cranwich.
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weeting.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (13)
- BROOCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- INGOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- POLISHED KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RING (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RING (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Mar 4 2024 11:23AM