Record Details

NHER Number:17716
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead (Diss, poorly located)

Summary

A Bronze Age flat axehead, made of copper alloy.

Images - none

Location

Parish:DISS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Probably Diss area.
Flat copper alloy axe, (S1).
Poorly corroded with heavily pitted surface and butt missing.
On display in Diss Museum in September 1981.
The museum has no records relating to this find, but it is almost certainly from the Diss area.
A. Lawson (NAU) 29 October 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.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Lawson, A.. 1981. Drawing of a copper alloy Bronze Age flat axehead.. Paper. 1:1.

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