Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8743 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Animal bones and possible Bronze Age swords, from the 'mere' |
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Summary
The bones of a red deer and 'some fine British swords' were retrieved from the mere here sometime before 1856.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9024 0189 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90SW |
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| Parish: | SAHAM TONEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
In or near site of mere.
Cervus elaphus (red deer) in possession of [1] in 1856.
See (S1), (S2), (called Saham Toney) and (S3).
Also in (S4) in dry bed of mere 'some fine british swords' exhibited by NNAS.
E. Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Undated)
- SWORD (Undated)
- SWORD (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. Saham Toney. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Saham Toney. |
| <S1> | Publication: Munro. 1890. [unknown]. p.467. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: English Lake Dwellings and Pile structures.. Nature. 2. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1887-8. The East Anglian or Notes and Queries. New Series. Vol II. p 111. |
| <S4> | Article in Serial: 1872. Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. Report for 1868. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VII pp i-iv. p ii. |
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