NHER 53863 (Find Spot record) - Unprovenanced Late Bronze Age Hoard (Sparham, poorly located)

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Summary

A Late Bronze Age hoard is said to have been found in Sparham, although the precise location is unknown. The hoard comprises socketed axes, socketed spearheads, a chisel or punch, a socketed gouge, fragments of dirks, sword blades, razors and three casting jets. The hoard is believed to be one and the same as a hoard identified in 1997.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full Description

Circa 2000. Informatio. per. J. Gibbons, purchased by another party from 'History in Your Hand', Elm Hill, Norwich in 2002.
Late Bronze Age hoard said to have been found as a group. The Hoard comprises two socketed axes, three socketed spearheads, a socketed chisel or punch, a gouge, two incomplete dirks, two sword blade fragments, three casting jets and a possible razor.
See description in file.
See drawings (S1-S5).
Steven Ashley, (NLA) 8 July 2004

A. Rogerson was given the opportunity to record a hoard found at a metal detector rally in 1997. The chisel/ punch and the gouge described above suggests that these hoards are one and the same.
See description in file,
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 19 February 2010

Associated Sources (6)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF93538 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. Unknown. Drawings of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment, 2 spearheads and one fragment.. Film. 1:1.
<S2> SNF93539 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. Unknown. Drawings of a Late Bronze Age socketed chisel or punch, a gouge and a fragment.. Film. 1:1.
<S3> SNF93540 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. Unknown. Drawings of a Late Bronze Age dirk.. Film. 1:1.
<S4> SNF93541 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. Unknown. Drawings of a Late Bronze Age dirk and two sword blade fragments.. Film. 1:1.
<S5> SNF93542 Illustration: Gibbons, J.. Unknown. Drawings of three Late Bronze Age casting jets and a possible razor.. Film. 1:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (9)

CASTING WASTE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
CHISEL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
DIRK (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
GOUGE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
PUNCH (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
RAZOR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
SPEARHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
SWORD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

May 4 2016 10:52AM