Record Details

NHER Number:1777
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead, Hare Clump

Summary

A Bronze Age socketed axehead found during ploughing in 1952.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 8777 4047
Map Sheet:TF84SE
Parish:HOLKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

July 1952. 91m (100 yards) south of Hare Clump.
Socketed copper alloy axe found while ploughing. Damaged when cast. 95 mm long, 52 mm wide.
Copy of (S1).

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

---Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 84 SE 20.
---Illustration: NCM. Sketch.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Holkham.
<S1>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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