Record Details

NHER Number:11254
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age socketed axehead

Summary

Sometime in 1965 or before a Bronze Age socketed axehead was recovered from sand in a field at Whitington. No further details are available.

Images - none

Location

Parish:NORTHWOLD, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1965 or before. Found in sand in a field at Whitington.
Socketed axe. No further details available.
Left at NCM but no response to letter enquiries about this particular artefact.
Drawing (S1) in the Illustration Library.
E. Rose (NAU/NLA).

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

---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. Northwold.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Milligan, W.. 1964. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axehead.. Card. 1:1.

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