Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32041 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Middle Bronze Age hoard |
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Summary
A Middle Bronze Age hoard including dirk, rapier and spearhead was recovered by metal detecting at this site. A fragment of a medieval cauldron ring was also recovered.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32SW |
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| Parish: | ASHMANHAUGH, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November to December 1995. Metal detecting.
Middle Bronze Age hoard.
Fragment of medieval cauldron ring.
Socket and part of blade of Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead, (S1).
Three fragments tang/blade of Middle Bronze Age dirk, (S2).
One fragment blade of Middle Bronze Age rapier, (S2).
A.Rogerson (NLA) 4 April 1996.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Medieval - 1600 BC to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- DIRK (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- HOARD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- SPEAR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- CAULDRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Jenkins, T.. 1996. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Jenkins, T.. 1996. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age rapier blade and dirk.. Paper. 1:1. |
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