NHER 29128 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy flanged axehead was found. The exact nature and location of this discovery are unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	NORFOLK NO PROVENANCE, -, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Found more than 20 years ago, unknown findspot.
Refound in [1]'s parents' shed in Roydon (near Diss).
Late Bronze Age cast flanged axe. Thin-butted, with an expanded and crescent-shaped cutting edge. Has prominent, rounded, flanges. Decorated between flanges and cutting edge with pitted, hammered, impressions.
See (S1).
Identified by J.A. Davies (NCM).
Information from [1].
J.A. Davies (NCM), 23 June 1992

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (1)

FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Aug 4 2006 9:53AM