Record Details

NHER Number:28299
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age tankard handle

Summary

Metal detecting recovered the handle of an Iron Age tankard.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 82 38
Map Sheet:TF83NW
Parish:NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1988. Found with metal detector.
Bronze tankard handle, compare the Hod Hill example in (S1).
See (S2).
Identified by R. Jackson, (British Museum).
W. Milligan (NCM), 22 August 1990.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • DRINKING VESSEL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Article in Serial: Corcoran, J. X. W. P. 1952. Tankards and Tankard Handles of the British Early Iron Age. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol XVIII Pt 1 pp 85-102.
<S2>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

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