Record Details
NHER Number: | 5819 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Bronze Age socketed axehead |
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Summary
At an unspecified date a Bronze Age unornamented socketed axehead was recovered from Thetford.
Images - none
Location
Parish: | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Bronze unornamented socketed axe 10.6cm (4.25in) long.
Held by NCM, formerly part of the Fitch Collection .
See (S1), (S2), (S3), (S4) and the Bronze Age index.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
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. TL 88 SE 75. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Thetford. |
<S1> | Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. p 27; No 296. |
<S2> | Article in Serial: 1872. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VII pp 349-374. p 373. |
<S3> | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 278. |
<S4> | Publication: Evans, J. 1881. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland. p 122. |
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