Record Details

NHER Number:17108
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead

Summary

A Bronze Age flat axehead, made of copper alloy.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BURGH CASTLE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Full description

Pre 1977.
No details given.
Copper alloy flat axe from Burgh Castle, Norfolk.
Illustrated in (S1), a guide catalogue to archaeological collections in Peterborough Museum.
See (S2 and (S3).
Information from A. Lawson (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 4 March 1981.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (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. Burgh Castle.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Publication: Green, M.J. Prehistoric Peterborough. p.15,fig.19,no.44.
<S2>Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axe.. Paper. Unknown.
<S3>Illustration: Unknown. Unknown. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axe.. Paper. Unknown.

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