Record Details

NHER Number:19569
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead from Glebe Land

Summary

Metal detecting recovered a Bronze Age copper alloy undecorated flanged axehead from Glebe Land.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 99 85
Map Sheet:TL98NE
Parish:HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

23 May 1983. Found with metal detector in ploughsoil. Glebe land.
Found on Glebe land by [1]:
Bronze Age copper alloy flanged axe (Arreton Industry). Undecorated with no stop ridge. Brown patina and some corrosion pits. Length 9.8cm. See drawing (S1).
Details supplied by [2], 3 October 1983.
Identified and compiled by J.J. Wymer (NAU), 10 October 1983.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 November 2019.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • FLANGED 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.
---Photograph: CLV 22-23- Y.
<S1>Illustration: Wymer, J. J. 1983. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flanged axehead. Card. 1:1.

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