Record Details

NHER Number:10328
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age socketed axehead with decorated ribs

Summary

In 1975 a Bronze Age looped and socketed axehead, with a square section socket and decorated with ribs, was found on the ploughed surface here.

Images

  • Bronze Age socketed axehead with decorated ribs.  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3017 0240
Map Sheet:TG30SW
Parish:YELVERTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1975. On ploughed surface.
Looped and socketed axe, square section socket. Decorated with ribs.
Drawn (S1) 28 August 1975.
Seen by A. Gregory (NAU) and W. Milligan (NCM).
See drawing (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1975. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1975. No 22. p 14.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 30 SW 29.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gregory, T.. 1975. Drawing of a Bronze Age looped and socketed axehead.. Card. 1:1.

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