Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2852 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age spearhead |
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Summary
A Bronze Age pegged and socketed copper alloy spearhead was found in digging foundations for a new greenhouse.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9867 1163 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF91SE |
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| Parish: | DEREHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1940. Stray Find.
Found at Potter's Fen when digging boiler for greenhouses at depth of 7 feet [2.1m] from surface in red clay with peat and humus above (Gault and white sand under red clay):
Late Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead. 5.25 inches [13cm] long, 1.375 inches [3.5cm] wide.
This object is noted in (S2), which reports a claim it was actually found in 1912, "...12' [3.66m] down in white sand.." [1].
Seen by R. R. Clarke in 1949, when in the possession of [2].
Information from (S2), which has a sketch of the object by [2] attached to its reverse.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2018.
1981.
This object is a pegged socketed spearhead and is in Bishop Bonner's Cottages Museum, Dereham
Compiled by A. Lawson (NAU), 6 November 1981.
Information from (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2018.
Site since built over for housing.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SPEARHEAD (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 4 [2]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Publication: Boston & Puddy. 1952. East Dereham. p.3. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Dereham (East). |
| <S3> | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
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