NHER 5824 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age or post medieval copper alloy spearhead

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Summary

At an unspecified date a copper alloy spearhead was recovered from somewhere within Thetford. It was suggested that the spear was a post medieval replica but that if it was genuine then it dated to the Bronze Age.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

Bronze leaf shaped spearhead 31cm (12.4in) long. (Cleaned.)
Could be theatrical piece and thus of post medieval date rather than Bronze Age.
Held by NCM, formerly held as part of the Trigg Collection in Bury St Edmunds (F.33).
Listed in Bronze Index (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Associated Sources (3)

--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Thetford.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF57092 Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (2)

SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
SPEAR (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

Jan 13 2014 11:32AM