NHER 30126 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age socketed axehead, made of copper alloy.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

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

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1973 or 1974. Found when working in sugar beet field, exact location unknown.
Late Bronze Age socketed axe; square mouth with 4 ribs on either side.
Side loop for attachment to haft.
Cast in two halves in a stone mould.
900 to 600 BC.
See (S1 and S2).
Identified by L. Brewster (KLM).

Could this be the same as site NHER 12928 if the date on one entry is incorrect?
E. Rose (NLA) 19 November 1993.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF77150 Illustration: Jones, C.. 1993. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axehead.. Paper. 1:1.
<S2> SNF90308 Illustration: Unknown. 1993. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axehead.. Paper. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (1)

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

Related NHER Records (0)

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Docking (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Dec 3 2013 1:38PM