NHER 16018 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic axehead and Late Bronze Age sword, River Little Ouse
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL78NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Date unknown. Found on Suffolk bank of Little Ouse at 7428 8701 and in dredgings. Presumably from river to north.
Late Bronze Age sword.
Information from A. Lawson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 22 April 1980.
See NHER 22921, could these be the same item?
E. Rose (NAU) 30 September 1986.
Published in (S1) and not apparently the same as NHER 22921.
F. Healy (NAU) May 1988.
From same grid reference, also dredged from river but at another date, a stone axe of group VI with blunt cutting edge and row of transverse cut marks on one lateral edge.
Information from F. Healy (NAU)
E. Rose (NAU) 25 November 1993.
Associated Sources (2)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (2)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Feb 15 2016 5:19PM