Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7645 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axe hammer |
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Summary
A large Bronze Age stone axe hammer was found on a ploughed field in 1963.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 245 205 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG22SW |
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| Parish: | FRETTENHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1963. Stray Find.
Found after ploughing:
1 Bronze Age large stone axehammer. See drawings (S1) and (S2).
Petrology N.63; quartz dolerite, probably Group XVIII (Whin Sill); see (S3) for details and (S4) for results of more recent geochemical and magnetic characterisation.
Held by Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1964.53).
Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 November 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (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. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. 1963. Sketch of a large Bronze Age stone axe hammer. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Unknown. 1963. Drawing of a large Bronze Age stone axe hammer.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Clough, T. H. Mck. and Green, B. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from East Anglia. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol 38 pp 108-155. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: Williams-Thorpe, O., Webb, P. C. and Jones, M. C. 2003. Non-destructive geochemical and magnetic characterisation of Group XVIII dolerite stone axes and shaft-hole implements from England. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol 30 pp 1237-1267. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Frettenham. |
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