NHER 11132 (Find Spot record) - Decorated unlooped Bronze Age palstave, Worstead Common

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Summary

It is recorded that before 1832 an unlooped copper alloy Bronze Age palstave was recovered from Worstead Common. It was decorated with a shield-pattern and had a short median rib.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish WORSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Before 1832.
Unlooped bronze palstave. Decorated with shield-pattern and short median rib. Length 14.7cm. In possession of T.G. Bayfield 1832. Formerly in United Services Museum.
In Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford (1884.119.105). Information from (S1).
Full description and analysis in (S2). Listed in (S3).

A. Lawson (NAU) and S. Margeson (NCM) checked object 1980 and state that this is the same as the palstave drawn in
(S4), on same drawing as site NHER 14342, marked very faintly 'found at Worstead'.

This was formerly numbered NHER 14343.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Worstead.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Allen, I.M., Britton, D. & Caghlan, H.H.. 1970. Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish B.A. Implements and Weapons.. Metallurgical Report. p 325; No 805.
  • <S3> Monograph: Rowlands, M. J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. British Archaeological Report. No 31.
  • <S4> Monograph: Woodward, S. 1832. Correspondence. p 98.
  • PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jan 22 2015 2:20PM

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