NHER 4481 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age socketed copper alloy axehead was found. The exact nature and location of this discovery are unclear.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish MARHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Socketed axe, unornamented axe 11.43cm (4 1/2 inches).
See (S1).

?same as bronze implement in (S2) and celt exhibited to Archaeological Institute 1847 by Goddard Johnson.
See (S3).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Why? In (S1) socketed axe from Marham.
E.B. Green (NCM).

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Marham.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 NW 18.
  • <S1> Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. p 27; No 284.
  • <S2> Monograph: 1905. Catalogue of Plowright's Collection in Swaffham.. 2.
  • <S3> Article in Monograph: 1851. Catalogue of Antiquities. Exhibited in the Museum formed during the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute, held at Norwich, in 1847. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City. Archaeological Institute. pp xxiii-lvi. p xxvi.
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Mar 23 2016 12:49PM

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