Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35028 |
|---|
| Type of record: | Find Spot |
|---|
| Name: | Bronze Age copper alloy axehead, prehistoric flints and medieval peny |
|---|
Summary
Metal detecting here during 1999 recovered part of an Early Bronze Age copper alloy axehead and two prehistoric flints. A watching brief in 2009 recovered prehistoric flints and a medieval penny.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 16 12 |
|---|
| Map Sheet: | TG11SE |
|---|
| Parish: | TAVERHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
|---|
Full description
August-September 1999. Metal detecting.
Early Bronze Age flat axe fragment (S1), and two prehistoric flints.
See lists and drawing in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA) 13 October 1999.
March-August 2009. Watching Brief.
East Hills to Norwich Ring Main Water Pipeline Scheme (Fields 5 and 6).
A prehistoric flake and flake-like blade were recovered as well as a silver medieval (AD 1301-1310) penny.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2010.90).
S. Howard (HES), 28 February 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015 and 11 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
- COIN (14th Century - 1301 AD to 1310 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Geake, H.. 1999. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age copper alloy axehead.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Phelps, A. 2010. An Archaeological Watching Brief on the East Hill to Norwich Ring Main Water Pipeline Scheme. NAU Archaeology. 2056. |
Related records - none
Find out more...