Record Details

NHER Number:2851
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age sword (Dereham, poorly located)

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy sword was exhibited to a local archaeology society in 1852 and described as coming from Dereham.

Images - none

Location

Parish:DEREHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Copper alloy sword (fine specimen) exhibited by [1] 8 January 1852 to the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. Location unknown.
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 91 SE 24.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Dereham (East).
<S1>Article in Serial: 1855. Appendix. Extracts from the Proceedings of the Committee. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol VI pp 341-366. p 355.
<S2>Monograph: 1901. The Victoria History of Norfolk. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol 1. p 276.

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