Record Details

NHER Number:10767
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age palstave

Summary

A Bronze Age decorated palstave with a half-oval depression below the stopridge was recovered in this parish in or before 1910. The exact location and nature of this discovery are unclear, although it may be from the hoard NHER 10765.

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Location

Parish:PULHAM ST MARY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Palstave with half-oval depression below stopridge. Decorated. 6 1/4 inches (16cm).
From the NCM Fitch Collection.
Museum of Canterbury 1910 24 No.261. Possibly (S1)? Exhibited by G. Johnson.
Stray from hoard NHER 10765?
Compiled by R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Pulham St Mary's.
<S1>Article in Monograph: 1851. Catalogue of Antiquities. Exhibited in the Museum formed during the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute, held at Norwich, in 1847. Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City. Archaeological Institute. pp xxiii-lvi. p xxvi.

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