Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9023 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic or Bronze Age stone macehead |
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Summary
A Neolithic or Bronze Age polished quartzite macehead was found in Shropham in the early 19th century.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | ROCKLANDS, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| SHROPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1817. 'Found about 1.5m (5 feet) below surface of a boggy common in deepening a rivulet that divides the parish of Shropham from Rockland (1842)'.
Polished stone (quartzite) macehead. Thames pestle type.
Watercolour by J. W. Watkin in NCM Art Department gives date of discovery as 1832.
Also watercolour by Samuel Wood in Woodwards 'Antiquities of East Anglia'.
Details and sketch in file.
T. Clough (NCM).
Information from (S1).
'Strong maul or battle axe'; is this NHER 9023?
M. D. Leah (NAU) 31 January 1991.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- MACE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 277. |
| --- | Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. |
| --- | 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. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 99 NE 17; TL 99 SE 25. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Publication: Evans, J. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. 2nd Edition. |
| --- | Publication: 1830. NCM Catalogue. |
| --- | Publication: 1846. P.S.A.. 1st.S.1, 116. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Rockland (All Saints). |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Archive: National Archaeological Record. |
Related records - none
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