NHER 8000 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead with fragments of the wood handle still in the socket was found in a ploughed field. The wooden handle was identified as young oak.
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG21NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HORSFORD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
1972. Casual Find.
Bronze socketed axe with fragment of wood in socket found on recently ploughed (?first time) field near dyke (stream). Covered in clay which sealed in the wood. Wood identified as young oak by P.W. Lambley.
See (S1).
T. Clough (NCM).
Associated Sources (7)
- --- SNF2491 Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. 1973. A Late Bronze Age Socketed Axe from Horsford, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXV Pt IV pp 491-493.
- --- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Horsford.
- --- 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 11 NE 14.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF2462 Serial: 1972. Council for British Archaeology, Group 7: Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1972. No 19. p 6.
- <S1> SNF91417 Illustration: Unknown. 1973. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe with a fragment of wood.. Card. 1:1.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (2)
- PLANT REMAINS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
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Record last edited
Jun 15 2018 11:27AM