Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6579 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age metal find |
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead was found in a stream in 1963. Part of the wooden shaft had also survived.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1552 3969 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13NE |
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| Parish: | EAST BECKHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1963. Bronze spearhead (S1) found in stream bed. Part of haft remaining; identified as yew (Taxus baccata) at Forest Products Research Laboratory, (letter in file).
E.B. Green (NCM).
Grid reference marked as above on old OS map by R. R. Clarke (NCM) but queried; no stream marked, but some runnels in field.
E. Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TG1435 AC. |
| --- | 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. Beckham (East). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Unknown. 1963. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead.. Card. 1:1. |
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