NHER 17541 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age flanged axehead found in 1977.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TL68NE
Civil Parish	HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1977. On ploughed surface.
Flanged copper alloy axe; 16.8cm long, 10cm wide at cutting edge. Facetted decoration on sides.
'Raindrops' on broad faces.
Originally recorded as from 7130 8820 (site 5316; TL 78 NW/73) due to finder's unfamiliarity with large scale maps.
The grid reference is based on the finder's 1:63,360 record map and is necessarily approximate.
It cannot be used to relate the axe to any of the second millennium BC occupation sites investigated in the same field.
(S1) in file.
S. Needham (BM) and A. Gregory (NAU).
F. Healy (NAU) 16 September 1981.

Described on (S2) by A. Gregory (NAU) as 'flat axe with slight hammered flanges'.

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF49959 Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
<S2> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (1)

FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Hockwold cum Wilton (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Sep 23 2016 9:19AM