Record Details

NHER Number:25454
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Bronze Age spear

Summary

Part of a Late Bronze Age spearhead, with original wood surviving in the socket and blade, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 98 35
Map Sheet:TF93NE
Parish:HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

August 1989. Found with metal detecting.
Lower half of Late Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead; rivet holes in socket. Wood surviving in socket and blade, (S1).
Identified by J. Wymer (NAU).
A. Rogerson (NAU) 4 September 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PLANT REMAINS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Article in Serial: Gurney, D. 1990. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1989. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLI Pt I pp 96-106. p 99; Fig 3.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J.. 1989. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age spearhead fragment.. Card. 1:1.

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