Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1685 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Two Bronze Age axeheads |
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Summary
Two Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axeheads were found at this spot at different times in 1954.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7441 3138 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF73SW |
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| Parish: | DERSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1954. Stray Find.
Found 500 yards [457m] south-east of Fox Covert and just west of Peddars Way:
1 Bronze Age copper alloy looped and facetted socketed axehead. See drawing (S1).
In Sandringham Estate Museum ('York Cottage Estate Museum').
Information from (S2). Discovery noted in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2018.
1954 or 1955. Stray Find.
Found on Peddars Way between Anmer and Red Barn Farm:
1 Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead - with five vertical lines. Seen 1963.
See drawing (S4).
Information from (S2). Discovery noted in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2018.
Both same site.
E.Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 73 SW 20. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Unknown]. [Unknown]. Drawings of a Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Dersingham. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk 1949-54. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXI Pt IV pp 395-416. p 398. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Milligan, W. F. 1963. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Paper. 1:1. |
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