Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11180 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age stone axe hammer from Woolpack Sand, four and a half miles off Holme next the Sea |
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Summary
A large Bronze Age perforated stone axe hammer was found on oyster beds in 1868.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | NORTH SEA, -, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1868.
Found on oyster beds near the Woolpack Sand, four and a half miles north of Holme.
Large stone perforated axe hammer.
Probably Cornish.
See (S1).
Information from W. G. Clarke manuscript (Norwich Central Library) 126.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (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 - Neolithic. Holme-Next-to-the-sea. |
| <S1> | 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. p 118. |
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