Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3533 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axehead and axehammer |
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Summary
A small flat Bronze Age copper alloy axehead was found near the Peddar's Way. A Bronze Age axehammer may also have been found here. The exact nature of these discoveries is unclear.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 762 278 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72NE |
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| Parish: | HARPLEY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1973.
Small flat bronze axehead found near Peddars Way.
See (S1).
Information from KLM and A.J. Lawson (NAU).
A.J. Lawson (NAU) says axehammer also found near here.
E. Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FLAT AXEHEAD (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 72 NE 20. |
| --- | 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. Harpley. |
| <S1> | Photograph: HV 16-18, 23. |
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