NHER 8031 (Find Spot record) - Late Bronze Age axehead hoard

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Summary

A hoard of about thirty Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axeheads was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries in 1827. These were found in Horstead in 1823. The exact location of this discovery is unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	HORSTEAD WITH STANNINGHALL, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1823.
Hoard of about thirty socketed axes.
Exhibited in 1827 to the Society of Antiquaries by H. Gurney.

Possibly from Little Switzerland.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

(S1) was written after receiving information from Mr Pightling who found them 'at Horstead 1823'. A sketch of an axe (with a break in it's side) in (S1) is the same as an axe in the NCM. It is probable that three other socketed axes in the S. Woodward Collection 1838 in the NCM, listed as No. 287 in (S3), also came from this hoard - with raised ribs. These three axes are recorded in (S4).
Also see axe 27.94 listed in (S3).
E. Rose (NAU).

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Horstead.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 21 NE 13.
<S1> SNF695 Serial: 1827. Woodward Correspondance.
<S2> SNF693 Serial: 1827. Archaeol.. vol.XXII p.422.
<S3> SNF1427 Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. 1910. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. p 286.
<S4> SNF57092 Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

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

Object Types (3)

HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Related NHER Records (0)

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Horstead with Stanninghall (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jun 16 2016 10:15AM