Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29492 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Massive Mesolithic to Bronze Age perforated stone object |
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Summary
A massive prehistoric shaft-hole implement that had been used as a hammer was found in this orchard some time prior to 1992. This object may be Bronze Age, but could be as early as Mesolithic in date.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9242 0963 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90NW |
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| Parish: | BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1992. Stray Find.
Found in orchard by daughter of source [1]:
1 prehistoric massive shaft-hole implement. One-sided 'hour-glass' perforation, ?unfinished. Used as hammer. See drawing (S1). Possibly Bronze Age, although mace-like implements such as these, where the hole has been made by pecking rather than drilling (giving the 'hour glass' form), can be as early as Mesolithic in date.
This discovery was reported in (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) 19 February 1993. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 May 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- PERFORATED OBJECT (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gurney, D. 1992. Drawing of a prehistoric stone ?unfinished shaft-hole implement. Film. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. (ed.). 1994. Archaeological Finds in Norfolk 1993. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLII Pt I pp 104-115. p 104. |
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