Record Details

NHER Number:1943
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age palstave from around Creake Abbey

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy palstave was found around 1908.

Images - none

Location

Parish:NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Around 1908. Stray Find.
Found near Creake Abbey.
Bronze palstave sent to [1] (NCM) by [2] on 20 September 1908.
See sketch on (S1).
Information from record cards (S1) and (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM). Amended by P. Beers (HES), 17 July 2020.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1908. Some Recent Finds in Norfolk. Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany. Second Series Pt 3 pp 94-107. p 98.
---Article in Serial: Clarke, W. G. 1919. The Distribution of Flint and Bronze Implements in Norfolk. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. Vol III Pt I (for 1918-19) pp 147-149. p 149.
---Publication: Avebury Prehistoric Times.. fig. 5.
---Map: Clarke, W.G.. MSS 126. MSS 126.
<S1>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Creake.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.

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