Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41383 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Eaton Late Bronze Age 'founder's hoard' and Late Saxon brooch |
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Summary
In 2005 a hoard of 145 Bronze Age copper alloy objects was found in a garden. The majority of these pieces were axeheads, spearheads and sword blades. A Viking brooch was also discovered.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
April 2005. Stray Find and Metal-detecting.
Discovered while working with a mini-digger in garden:
Late Bronze Age hoard - one hundred and forty-five items dating to about 800 BC.
Found during metal-detecting survey undertaken to locate remnants of hoard:
Viking brooch.
See twenty-one sheets of catalogue by A. West (NCM) in file. See also newspaper articles (S1) and (S2).
Brooch donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2005.354) who also subsequently acquired the Bronze Age hoard (NWHCM : 2007.77).
A. Cattermole (NLA) 26 April 2005 and A. Rogerson (NLA) 3 February 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 May 2020.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- CHISEL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- GOUGE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- INGOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- RING (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SWORD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Unpublished Document: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and British Museum. 2008. Treasure Annual Report 2005/6. pp 46-50; No 67; Fig 67. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2005. Bronze Age find is something special. 26 April. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2005. Find may be declared a Norfolk treasure. 19 December. |
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