NHER 12589 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age socketed axehead

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Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead is recorded as being found here during seed drilling, but it isn't clear if this is the same axe as described found 'half way to Boughton'.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF60SE
Civil Parish BOUGHTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1958. Stray Find.
Found while drilling:
Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead.
This object was brought in to the King's Lynn Museum by [1] on behalf of a friend. It was subsequently acquired by the museum (KILLM : 1958.11.69), where it is recorded as having been found "at Poplar Cottages".
See newspaper article (S1) for further details and photograph in file.
Information from (S2) and (S3). This discovered was reported in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 February 2019.

Formerly wrongly marked on TF 70 SW at 703 035.
Is this the same as "socketed axe found half way to Boughton" by [2] "of Beachamwell" written on KLM 6 inch map, just south of Barton Bendish village?
E. Rose (NAU), 2 October 1981.
Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 February 2019.

  • --- Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1958. 'Brass' trinket was gold. 6 November.
  • <S2> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Boughton.
  • <S3> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 SW 31.
  • <S4> Serial: 1958. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. Vol 5. p 2.
  • <S5> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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Record last edited

Aug 10 2022 7:43AM

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