NHER 22533 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead

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Summary

A flat axehead, dating to the Bronze Age, made of copper alloy.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG01NW
Civil Parish BILLINGFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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March 1986.
Found on chute when gravel was being quarried in area this NGR.
Flat axe of copper or copper alloy, broken at butt and battered by machinery.
Fresh metal thus exposed is copper coloured.
Otherwise in good condition with no trace of corrosion.
Undecorated.
See (S1)
F. Healy (NAU) 24 April 1986.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Illustration: Healy, F.. 1986. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead. Film. 1:1.
  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jan 3 2014 12:22PM

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