Record Details

NHER Number:1879
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead

Summary

A Bronze Age socketed axehead found in the 1940s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9880 4171
Map Sheet:TF94SE
Parish:LANGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

About 1949. West of Drove Lane in removing material for road making on aerodrome during war.
Socketed copper alloy axe head 105mm long 48mm wide.
Not in situ.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 94 SE 8.
---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. Langham.
<S1>Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.

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