NHER 9309 (Find Spot record) - Early Bronze Age dagger and undated spindle whorl

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Summary

Sometime prior to 1934 an Early Bronze Age dagger was found in this area. Addtionally, later fieldwalking in 1984 recovered a stone spindle whorl of an unknown date.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG10NE
Civil Parish	COSTESSEY, NORWICH, NORFOLK

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Pre-1934. Near Mesolithic site approximately 15m (50ft) OD (ploughed).
Beaker flint dagger. Exhibited by Prehistoric Society of East Anglia on 11 December 1934.
See (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Material not checked.
E. Rose (NAU).

1984. Found while fieldwalking on cultivated field.
Stone spindle whorl.
Photograph (S2) taken by NCM.
Identified by E. B. Green (NCM) 11 September 1984.
E. B. Green (NCM) 11 September 1984.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF87257 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Costessey (Bowthorpe).
--- 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 10 NE 11.
<S1> SNF1806 Article in Monograph: Sainty, J. E. 1935. Norfolk Prehistory. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Report of the Annual Meeting, 1935. Norwich, September 4-11. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Appendix pp 60-71. p 68.
<S2> SNF50602 Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)

Object Types (2)

DAGGER (Beaker - 2300 BC to 1700 BC)
SPINDLE WHORL (Unknown date)

Related NHER Records (0)

Record last edited

Jun 1 2016 9:06AM