Record Details

NHER Number:8183
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age metal find

Summary

A Bronze Age decorated copper alloy axehead was found in 1956.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 3463 2821
Map Sheet:TG32NW
Parish:EAST RUSTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1956 in digging drains for new council houses north of Butchers Arms Public House.
Looped bronze palstave with shield and stem decoration.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1956. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 3. p 4.
---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. Ruston (East).

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