NHER 9023 (Find Spot record) - Neolithic or Bronze Age stone macehead

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Summary

A Neolithic or Bronze Age polished quartzite macehead was found in Shropham in the early 19th century.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	ROCKLANDS, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

1817. 'Found about 1.5m (5 feet) below surface of a boggy common in deepening a rivulet that divides the parish of Shropham from Rockland (1842)'.
Polished stone (quartzite) macehead. Thames pestle type.

Watercolour by J. W. Watkin in NCM Art Department gives date of discovery as 1832.
Also watercolour by Samuel Wood in Woodwards 'Antiquities of East Anglia'.
Details and sketch in file.
T. Clough (NCM).

Information from (S1).
'Strong maul or battle axe'; is this NHER 9023?
M. D. Leah (NAU) 31 January 1991.

Associated Sources (11)

--- SNF2471 Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155.
--- SNF1141 Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 277.
--- SNF712 Publication: 1830. NCM Catalogue.
--- SNF771 Publication: 1846. P.S.A.. 1st.S.1, 116.
--- SNF5933 Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition.
--- SNF1374 Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia.
--- SNF87258 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Rockland (All Saints).
--- 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 99 NE 17; TL 99 SE 25.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57179 Archive: National Archaeological Record.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Object Types (1)

MACE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Jul 13 2016 9:56AM