NHER 4031 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TF81NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
May 1962. Stray Find.
Picked up on ploughed field by [1]:
1 Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. See drawing (S1). 10.2cms long, 5.3 cms wide.
In possession of [2].
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3) and is also recorded by (S4).
According to (S5) another looped and socketed axehead had been found nearby by [2] at some time during the early 1950s (at [3]). This record was made in 1972 and it is therefore possible that this was actually a reference to the axehead that had been reported in 1962.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2016.
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF80879 Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1962. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Card. 1:1.
- <S2> SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Castle Acre.
- <S3> SNF87127 Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 2.
- <S4> SNF57092 Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.
- <S5> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 81 NW 9.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (1)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Feb 18 2025 10:55AM