Record Details

NHER Number:34906
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic and Bronze Age axeheads, and Roman coin

Summary

A Neolithic flint flaked and polished axehead, a Bronze Age socketed axehead, made of copper alloy, and a silver Roman coin, found during metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 30 11
Map Sheet:TG31SW
Parish:GREAT AND LITTLE PLUMSTEAD, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

29 November 1998. Metal detecting rally.
Found by [1], 1 Roman silver coin.
See list in file.
Found by [2], flaked and polished Neolithic axehead (S2).
See (S1) in file.

November 1998. (not on rally).
Found by [1], Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment (S4 and S5).
See description in file, and (S3).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 18 July 1999.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: Robins, P. (NCM). 1998. Lithic Report.
<S2>Illustration: Robins, P.. 1998. Drawing of a Neolithic flint flaked and polished axehead.. Paper. 1:1.
<S3>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
<S4>Illustration: Kercher, J.. 1998. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axehead fragment.. Card. 1:1.
<S5>Illustration: Holness, A.. 1998. Drawing of a Bronze Age socketed axehead fragment.. Card. 1:1.

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