Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34690 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age metal hoard |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1999 recovered a Late Bronze Age hoard of copper alloy objects, including fragments of sword blades, spearheads, axeheads, knives and bracelets.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Parish: | SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September 1999. Metal detecting.
Late Bronze Age founder's hoard.
See preliminary list and finder's colour scan (S1) in file.
A.Rogerson (NLA), 23 September 1999.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- ARMLET (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BRACELET (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- BUTTON (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CASTING WASTE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CHISEL (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- GOUGE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HAMMER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- SWORD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 18, Late Bronze Age Sword fragments. |
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 19, Late Bronze Age Sword fragments.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 20, Late Bronze Age socketed axes.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 21, Late Bronze Age spears.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 22, Late Bronze Age Hammer, gouge, chisel and knife.. |
| --- | Photograph: 1999. KSQ 23, Late Bronze Age bracelet fragments. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
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