NHER 2602 (Find Spot record) - Middle Bronze Age hoard

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Summary

A Middle Bronze Age hoard containing a quoit headed pin and two basal looped spearheads was discovered on Boughton Fen during peat digging in 1864.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

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

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1864. Found in digging peat in Boughton Fen (now marked by Ordnance Survey as centred 718 012).
Late Middle Bronze Age hoard. Two basal-looped spearheads and quoit headed pin. Pin is 42.4cm long, oval head 13.2 x 16.2 cm internally with flat sectioned loop 1.0cm wide, edges raised into low flanges, giving max thickness of 0.3cm. Each flange decorated with long oblique nicks, flat field between flanges decorated with faint incised chevrons. Shank 26.9cm long, apparently drawn and twisted.
E. Rose (NAU), 6 May 1982.

See (S2) in which A. J. Lawson suggests that Barton Bendish (NHER 4495) and Pentney Bradmoor (NHER 3944) hoards may be part of same hoard.
E. Rose (NAU) 18 February 1986.

And correction in (S3).
E. Rose (NLA).

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF57038 Illustration: Sandys. 1865. Watercolour illustration.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Boughton.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 SW 29.
--- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
--- SNF57037 Unpublished Document: Bolding. 1866. Notebook.
<S1> SNF954 Article in Serial: 1872. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VII pp 349-374. p 351.
<S2> SNF6730 Article in Serial: Lawson, A. J. 1985. Bronzes from Brettenham, Boxford, Barton Bendish, Boughton and Bradmoor Common. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt II pp 169-175. p 169 ff.
<S3> SNF2877 Article in Serial: 1986. Correction: Andrew J. Lawson, 'Bronzes from Brettenham, Boxford, Barton Bendish, Boughton and Bradmoor Common'. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt III p 331.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Object Types (3)

HOARD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
PIN (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
SPEAR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Boughton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Mar 24 2016 9:55AM