Record Details
NHER Number: | 5820 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Bronze Age socketed axehead |
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Summary
In 1881 a Bronze Age socketed axehead measuring 10.2cm long was found at an unspecified location within Thetford.
Images - none
Location
Parish: | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1881.
Evans has another socketed axe without diagonal lines by central rib. This one is 120mm long, see (S1).
See for comparison caston specimin (square socket - E. Rose (NAU).
Held by the Ashmolean Museum as part of the Evans Collection, formerly part of the J. Warren Collection.
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: 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> | Article in Serial: 1853. Quarterly Meetings. Proceedings of the Bury & West Suffolk Archaeological Institute. Vol I pp 304-313. p 305. |
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