NHER 16452 (Find Spot record) - Possible Bronze Age axehead and prehistoric worked flints
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TL79NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Pre 1980. Context 2 somewhere in field.
'Bronze axe' (no details).
Finder mentions as 'the three finds in the possession of the Wortly Family' NHER 4753, NHER 16000 and this one; so this may be the same as NHER 4755 which could be wrongly marked; on the other hand, that could be a different family
of Wortleys.
A. Lawson (NAU), 18 August 1980.
20 November 1986. Fenland fieldwalking.
Context 1, general scatter over field.
Odd flints - one small group at 7230 9578 not a 'site'.
R. Silvester (NAU), 27 November 1986.
For full details of wares, flint types etc see (S1).
Before 1980. Additional to the entry above.
A Palstave Axe, possibly the same axe recorded as being found in 1980. Illustration (S2) and description added to file.
E. Darch (HES), 14 September 2010.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF16019 *Fieldwork: Fenland Survey. MTW CA. FENS.
- --- SNF61554 Monograph: Silvester, R. J. 1991. The Fenland Project, Number 4: The Wissey Embayment and the Fen Causeway, Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology. No 52.
- --- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF58493 Archive: Fenland Folders.
- <S2> SNF77816 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2010. Drawing of a Bronze Age palstave axe. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (3)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Sep 15 2015 5:18PM