Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2639 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age socketed axehead |
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Summary
In 1966 a facetted and socketed Bronze Age axehead was recovered from this site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7000 0036 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF70SW |
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| Parish: | STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1966. Stray Find.
Found in garden beside quarry, around 250 yds [230m] north-west of Bell (Public House):
1 Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Facetted, three hafting ribs each side in socket.
See copy of NCM drawing (S1).
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 May 2018.
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: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 SW 33. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1966. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Wretham. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1966. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1966. No 13. p 6. |
Related records - none
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