NHER 25795 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age palstave and rapier
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG01SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOCKERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
16 or 17 July 1990. Found when picking potatoes by hand in small hollow, possibly ploughed out clay pit, now ploughed field.
Palstave. Of haft flanged type (Rowlands Class I).
Length 135mm, width of blade 64mm, width of butt 22mm.
Shield pattern at base of blade. Rain decoration on shield and butt on both sides. Badly pitted and with later scratch (from plough?) across blade.
See (S1 and S2).
Seen by E. Rose, R. Rickett and D. Gurney (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 18 July 1990.
Amended by E.B. Green (NCM) 5 March 1991
February- March 2009. Metal detecting
Bronze Age rapier, (S3).
See description in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 April 2009
April- May 2009. Metal detecting
Part polished axehead.
See list in file
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 24 June 2009
Associated Sources (5)
- --- SNF100582 Publication: British Museum. 2011. Treasure Act Annual Report 2009. p xiv.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF90489 Illustration: Rose, E.. 1990. Sketch of a Bronze Age palstave.. Paper. Unknown.
- <S2> SNF90490 Illustration: Gurney, D.. 1990. Drawing of a Bronze Age palstave.. Paper. 1:1.
- <S3> SNF78152 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2009. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age rapier. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (3)
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
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Record last edited
May 27 2020 12:11AM