Record Details
| NHER Number: | 21607 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age knife |
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Summary
An Early Bronze Age tanged knife, made of copper alloy.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 1308 7896 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM17NW |
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| Parish: | DISS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1985 or before. Found in dredgings from river at this approximate spot and dumped on Stuston Common, Suffolk at 1310 7896.
Early Bronze Age tanged knife.
Bright coppery aspect, alleged not to have been cleaned but found in such condition.
Established by British Museum Laboratory to be copper
J. J. Wymer (NAU) 17 July 1985.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Green, B. 1986. A tanged copper dagger from the River Waveney. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXIX Pt III pp 318-319. |
| --- | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
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