NHER 17889 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age copper alloy axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy flanged axehead was found before 1976. The location and nature of its discovery are unknown.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish REEPHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Found before 1976.
Flanged axe; 14 cm long by 4.5 cm wide.
Reference in (S1) which gives location as 'Black Grate (sic) Museum No.27'. This presumably means the Blackgate Museum at Newcastle upon Tyne whose prehistoric collections are now in the main Newcastle Museum.

Not in NCM/NAU index unless it is an odd stray from site NHER 3134.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 January 1982.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Monograph: Rowlands, M. J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. British Archaeological Report. No 31. No 256.
  • FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Nov 18 2013 12:47PM

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