Record Details

NHER Number:11398
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age stone axe-hammer

Summary

In 1976 a Bronze Age stone axe-hammer was dragged up by a tractor-drawn hoe on this site.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3048 2655
Map Sheet:TG32NW
Parish:WORSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1976. Stray Find.
Dragged up by tractor-drawn hoe:
1 Bronze Age stone axe hammer. 18.6cm x 9.8cm, 8.0cm thick. Slightly waisted perforation, butt battered.
See drawing (S1) and newspaper cutting (S2) in file. Petrology No. N220 (not sliced).
E. Rose (NAU).

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

---Serial: 1976. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1976. No 23. p 23.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 32 NW 17.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gregory, T. 1976. Drawing of a Bronze Age stone axe hammer. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1976. Worstead axe up to 4000 years old. 28 July.

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