Record Details

NHER Number:1942
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age palstave from beside Crowside Wood

Summary

A Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave was found at this location during the 1960s.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 870 388
Map Sheet:TF83NE
Parish:NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1963/4. Stray Find.
Found in ploughed field beside Crowdale Wood:
1 Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. 536.5gms. See drawing (S1).
Reported by [1]. Found by [2].
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 February 2018.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Milligan, W. 1965. Darwing of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. Card. 1:1.
<S2>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Creake.

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