Record Details

NHER Number:11253
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age palstave

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy palstave (axehead) was found at an uncertain date.

Images - none

Location

Parish:CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Date of finding uncertain. Looped palstave. Drawing (S1) in the Illustration Library and correspondence in file. Obtained from a river worker and therefore (wrongly) referred to as "from Croxton river".
D. Gurney (NLA), 6 October 2000.

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. Croxton.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Milligan, W. F. 1964. Drawing of a Bronze Age palstave. Find Illustration. Card. 1:1.

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