NHER 3051 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age metal finds

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Summary

Two Late Bronze Age copper alloy swords were ploughed up in 1954.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG01NE
Civil Parish WESTON LONGVILLE, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

1954. 274m (300 yards) westnorthwest of Greensgate. Two Late Bronze Age bronze swords found by ploughing on 22nd January 1954; depth 45cm (1 1/2 feet) (leaf shaped); sticky clay soil. 1. 51cm (20 1/4 inches) long with six rivet holes. 2. 55cm (21 1/2 inches) long. Site examined June 1954 by R. R. Clarke (NCM); nothing further found.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Copy of press cutting (S1) and photograph (S2) in file.

Grid reference as above.
Information from Ordnance Survey Records.
R. J. Rickett (NAU),11 August 1990

Article missing from file [Jo Yates, 23 September 2010].

  • --- Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. [unknown]. [unknown]. [unknown].
  • --- Publication: Norfolk Museums Service. 1966. Bronze Age Metalwork in Norwich Castle Museum. p 22.
  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Weston Longville.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 01 NE 6 [2].
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Serial: 1954. Council for British Archaeology Group VII Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 1. p 3.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1954. Two Late Bronze Age swords found at Weston Longville. 6 January.
  • <S2> Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
  • HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SWORD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 16 2016 1:37PM

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