NHER 4597 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age palstave and axehead

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Summary

During the period 1847-53 a Bronze Age palstave and axehead were recovered from Sporle and Palgrave. These supposedly came from the boundary between south and north Pickenham but the exact location has not been determined.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish SPORLE WITH PALGRAVE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Boundary between south and north Pickenham.
Ribbed palstave with converging lines below stop-ridge, looped (174mm long).
Held by NCM, formerly part of Beloe Collection. See (S1), (S2) and (S3).
(Clarke's Class III) (Bryant says 1847 or 1851 - E. Rose (NAU)).
Fine bronze celt from here according to E. Farrer 1853 (D. R. Manning Collection Antiquities).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Sporle.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 80 NE 31.
  • <S1> Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. 1910. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Beloe, E. M. 1896. The Padders' Way and its Attendant Roads. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol IX (New Series Vol III) pp 77-95. p 89.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Clark, J. G. D. and Godwin, H. 1940. A Late Bronze Age Find near Stuntney, Isle of Ely. Antiquaries Journal. Vol XX pp 52-71. p 66.
  • AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 31 2016 9:13AM

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