Record Details
| NHER Number: | 20692 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Bronze Age palstave (Methwold, poorly located) |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered a Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. This may be part of a scattered hoard with the objects from NHER 22053 and 4755. The exact location of this discovery is unclear.
Images - none
Location
Full description
August 1984. Found with metal detector. See Notes.
Unlooped palstave; in form has rudimentary shield-shaped depression next to stop. Widely curving blade. Length 14cm, width across blade 6cm.
See (S1).
Finder: [1]
Information from: [2].
E.M. James (KLM), 6 September 1984.
Note that sites NHER 4754 to 5, two looped palstaves and spearhead also come from this area.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- HOARD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- 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. |
| <S1> | Slide: Various. Slide. KLM. |
Related records
| 22053 | Related to: Multi-period finds (Find Spot) |
| 4755 | Related to: Prehistoric finds, field north of Hanging Drove (Find Spot) |