NHER 5250 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age spearhead from Queen's Ground, Methwold Common Fen

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Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy leaf-shaped spearhead was found some years before 1935 when peat was being cut.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TL69SE
Civil Parish	METHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Some years before 1935. Found at Queen's Ground, Methwold Common Fen, 9m (10 yards) south of Drove below letter D in 'Ground' on (S1) according to (S2).
Bronze spearhead 285mm long: leaf shaped blade with very sharp high midrib flanked by grooves in the blade, small roughly pierced loops at base of blade and cast continuously within it - no rivet holes.).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Found in cutting peat 70cm deep.
E. Rose (NLA).

On same slide as NHER 4919.

Associated Sources (10)

--- SNF1893 Article in Serial: 1935. [unknown]. Journal of Ecology. Vol XXIII, p 531.
--- SNF1842 Article in Serial: Godwin, H., Godwin M. E., Clark, J. G. D. and Clifford, M. H. 1934. A Bronze Age Spear-head found in Methwold Fen, Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol VII Pt III pp 395-398.
--- SNF6188 Article in Serial: Godwin, H.. 1940. Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation. III. Fenland pollen diagrams. IV. Post-glacial changes of the relative land and sea-level in the English Fenland.. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B230, pp 239-303. VIIb-VII\VIII) E 264, 281.
--- SNF1847 Article in Serial: Hawkes, C. and Hawkes, J. 1934. Prehistoric Britain in 1934. The Archaeological Journal. Vol XCI pp 301-329. p 319.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Methwold.
--- 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. TL 69 SE 1.
--- SNF8807 Slide: Various. Slide.
<S1> SNF49461 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1805-1836. Ordnance Survey Map. One inch to the mile. First Edition.
<S2> SNF1958 Article in Serial: 1938. [unknown]. Yorkshire Archaeol. J.. Vol XXXIV, p 7.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (1)

SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 13 2018 2:28AM